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All housewives love preparations for the winter. Summer pampers with fresh vegetables and fruits, but for the winter table it is good to cook canned dishes from your favorite products.
Zucchini are grateful vegetables. It is worth allocating a small garden bed for them, and you will get a wonderful dietary vegetable throughout the summer. The quantity and quality of zucchini is always on top, so dishes from them are cooked with pleasure. There are a lot of options, each housewife knows her own “signature” recipe. The popularity of zucchini blanks is due to the beneficial qualities of the vegetable. The very first thing is suitability for dietary and baby food. Each member of the family can enjoy a delicious dish.
An excellent recipe for the whole family is zucchini caviar through a meat grinder.
You will need few ingredients for cooking, and ready-made zucchini caviar will surprise you with its delicate taste.
Preparation of components for winter harvesting
To prepare a dietary dish, it is better to take young zucchini of a small size. In this case, your “overseas” squash caviar will be very light, tender and extremely tasty. In young zucchini, a thin peel and undeveloped seeds, so the consistency of caviar will be uniform. And the cooking process will take much less time. But when you need to make caviar from old vegetables, you will have to cut off a dense layer of peel and remove all seeds.
The main partners of zucchini are carrots and onions. And the rest of the ingredients can be added according to your taste and home preferences. Zucchini is ideally combined with spices, spices and other vegetables. Therefore, your final result may be completely different in taste from the originally chosen one.
Today we will consider the option of preparing caviar in a meat grinder for winter consumption.
The dish takes a long time to prepare. All components are passed through a meat grinder, put in a deep container (very good if you have a cauldron) and stew until the dish is ready. In addition to ordinary dishes, housewives use an oven, a slow cooker, a frying pan or a pressure cooker. The quality of the product does not decrease from this. You can grind in a meat grinder both raw vegetables and pre-processed. Before grinding, they are baked or fried as desired. Consider the most common recipe for caviar from zucchini in a meat grinder.
The formulation of products for the preparation of dietary caviar
Zucchini caviar for the winter in a meat grinder is easy to prepare. The recipe is clear and tested by many housewives. The main ingredients for harvesting are designed for 1,5 kg of young zucchini. It is necessary to prepare:
- greens (quantity at your discretion);
- onion – 2 pcs. medium size;
- carrots – 1 pcs .;
- salt – 1,5 tablespoons without top;
- sugar – 0,5 teaspoons;
- table vinegar 9% – 30 ml;
- tomato paste – 70 ml;
- black pepper and allspice in equal quantities – 1 gr.
This is a classic set of products for caviar from young zucchini. If you like any other spices, feel free to add to your liking.
The process of preparing caviar in a meat grinder
First, prepare each component for laying in caviar.
- Wash the zucchini, dry and cut into small sticks or cubes.
- Peel the carrots and grate with medium holes.
- Peel and chop the onion.
Further, the classic recipe provides for a small thermal preparation of vegetables.
In this case, lightly fry in a deep frying pan. First, heat the oil, add the zucchini and fry until golden brown. Now it’s the turn of carrots and onions. They are fried together with zucchini in one pan for no more than 10 minutes.
Greens must be washed and dried. Cool vegetables.
Twist all the components (greens and the contents of the pan) in a meat grinder, put in a bowl with thick walls, season with salt, sugar and spices, add tomato paste. Mix everything well and simmer for 20 minutes. A zucchini dish in a meat grinder requires constant stirring, otherwise the contents may burn.
At the end of cooking, add table vinegar and simmer everything together for 5 minutes.
Sterilize and dry glass jars. Lay out the finished winter blank, roll up the lids and wrap for a day for slow cooling.
The recipe for caviar from zucchini for the winter in a meat grinder can be varied by adding or replacing some components. Add fresh tomatoes and bell peppers – caviar will get a richer vegetable taste.
Garlic will make it spicy. Ginger, celery, zira – your favorite spices will warm you up on winter days. The cooking process does not change, but you can change the composition. Don’t be afraid to experiment.