Eggplant caviar for the winter – recipes “Lick your fingers”

Eggplant caviar is a good addition to main dishes. It is used as a snack or part of sandwiches. To prepare a delicious dish, recipes “You will lick your fingers” are used.

Eggplant caviar is stored for a long time, so it is used for homemade preparations. For its preparation, you will need special dishes and fresh vegetables. A meat grinder or blender will help to add the necessary consistency.

The benefits and harms of eggplant caviar

Eggplants are low calorie foods. They contain vitamins, carotene and trace elements (potassium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus). During heat treatment, some of the useful properties are lost.

Eggplant caviar brings undoubted benefits to the body:

• improves blood composition;
• due to potassium helps to normalize the water balance;
• positively affects the work of the intestines;
• removes slags and toxins;
• due to iron promotes hematopoiesis.

Eggplant caviar is included in the diet menu. Due to fiber, this product is able to remove excess fluid from the body.

For the preparation of caviar, young eggplants are chosen. Overripe fruits contain an increased amount of solanine, a substance that causes poisoning. When it enters the body, vomiting, colic, diarrhea, convulsions, shortness of breath appear.

Cooking principles

To cook delicious eggplant caviar, you need to adhere to certain principles:

• Before cooking, wash all vegetables thoroughly and cut according to the recipe.
• For cooking, dishes made of cast iron or steel are selected. Thick-walled containers prevent burning of components. With uniform heating of vegetables, caviar acquires a good taste.
• Caviar is prepared from young eggplants, which are cleaned from seeds.
• Additional components are added to the dish (tomatoes, carrots, onions, garlic).
• Carrots will help make caviar sweeter.
• The taste of the dish can be adjusted by spices, salt and sugar.
• When canning, lemon juice or vinegar is added to the blanks.
• Caviar for the winter is placed in glass jars, which are previously subjected to heat treatment.
• It is recommended to boil the lids for jars before twisting.
• Hot jars of caviar are turned over and covered with a blanket until completely cooled.

Main recipe

Eggplant caviar “Lick your fingers” is prepared according to the following recipe:

1. Eggplants in the amount of 2,5 kg are peeled and cut into cubes.
2. One kilogram of onion is cut into strips and fried in a pan.
3. 0,5 kg of carrots are grated and added to the onion for subsequent frying.
4. Vegetables are fried for 10 minutes, then eggplants are added.
5. For half an hour, the vegetable mixture is stewed over low heat, then diced tomatoes (1,5 kg) are added to it.
6. The vegetable mass remains on low heat for 50 minutes. To get a thicker consistency, you can increase the stewing time.
7. From spices, you can add 6 black peppercorns and 2 bay leaves. With the help of sugar and salt, you can make caviar sweeter or saltier.

Caviar in the oven

Significantly simplify the process of cooking eggplant caviar “Lick your fingers” using the oven will help:

1. For cooking, you will need 4 eggplants and 3 medium-sized peppers, which must be wrapped in aluminum foil. For half an hour, vegetables are placed in the oven.
2. Then take 5 tomatoes, on which cruciform cuts are made. Tomatoes are dipped in boiling water for a few minutes, after which they are taken out and peeled off. The pulp is rubbed on a grater or a mushy mass is obtained using a blender.
3. Peppers and eggplants are removed from the oven and cooled. Peppers are peeled and cut into small pieces.
4. Eggplants are cleaned in the same way. Young vegetables can be cut immediately. More mature eggplants are put under pressure to get rid of the bitter juice. After that, the vegetables are also cut.
5. 2 onions, peeled and finely chopped. The resulting mass is fried in a pan for 2 minutes.
6. Pepper is added to the onion, and then fried for 2 minutes.
7. Eggplant can be added to the vegetable mixture. The dish should be stewed for no more than 4 minutes.
8. Then tomatoes are added to the caviar, mixed and left to stew over low heat for an hour.
9. During this time, you need to finely chop the garlic, which, together with pepper and salt, is added to the caviar.
10. Due to the tomatoes, the dish may acquire a sour taste. It can be neutralized with sugar.
11. Ready-made caviar is filled into jars or served as a snack on the table.

Recipe with pepper

Eggplant caviar for the winter “Lick your fingers” can be prepared with the addition of pepper:

1. One and a half kilograms of eggplant must be thoroughly washed and peeled and cut into small pieces. Vegetable slices are placed in a deep bowl, covered with salt and left for 30 minutes.

   

2. During this time, juice will stand out, which gives the eggplant bitterness. The liquid is poured out of the container, and the eggplants themselves are thoroughly washed.
3. Carrots (enough 0,3 kg) are peeled, and then cut into strips. Then you need to finely chop the onion.
4. Fry the carrots in a pan for a few minutes until they are soft.
5. Then you need to cut two peppers into small pieces, after removing the seeds.
6. Four tomatoes are placed in boiling water, after which the skin is removed from them. The pulp must be grated or chopped in a blender.
7. Onions are added to the carrots in the pan, fried and chopped peppers are added. The mixture must be simmered over low heat until the vegetables are soft.
8. The next step is to add the eggplant slices. Caviar is left to stew for 15 minutes.
9. Then tomatoes are added to the dish. Stir the mixture for 15 minutes and simmer over low heat.
10. Garlic (2 cloves), salt and pepper will help improve the taste of caviar.
11. Ready vegetables are turned through a meat grinder or chopped in a blender.

Caviar with mushrooms

Eggplant caviar for the winter “Lick your fingers” is prepared with the addition of mushrooms:

1. Large eggplants in the amount of three pieces are cut lengthwise into two parts. One sweet pepper is cut into four parts and the seeds are removed.
2. Eggplants and peppers are placed on a baking sheet, which is pre-lubricated with sunflower oil. You can put 5 garlic cloves on top.
3. In this form, vegetables are baked for 25 minutes.
4. Separately, onions and carrots are cut, which are fried in a pan.
5. Five tomatoes are dipped in boiling water, then the skin is removed. Tomato pulp is cut into pieces and added to carrots and onions.
6. Separately fried mushrooms, which are pre-cut into cubes. For caviar, you can use champignons in the amount of 10 pieces.

   

7. Vegetables come out of the oven and need time to cool.
8. The contents of the pan, where carrots, onions and mushrooms were fried, are transferred to a separate pan. Simmer the vegetable mixture for 5 minutes.
9. Peppers and eggplants are peeled, the flesh is cut into cubes. Then they are added to the pan to the main vegetables.
10. Caviar is left for 20 minutes on low heat.
11. At the stage of readiness, spices, sugar and herbs are added to taste.

Conclusion

In the process of preparing eggplant caviar, the quality of the vegetables used is taken into account. The most delicious preparations are obtained using young eggplants. To speed up the process, you can put the eggplant in the oven.

Carrots, peppers, mushrooms help to give caviar a special taste. If necessary, you can add spices or herbs to the dish.