Zucchini caviar for the winter without roasting 

Zucchini caviar is a fairly low-calorie and healthy dish. But many modern chefs no longer resort to old grandmother’s recipes and make this dish without roasting. We will tell you some interesting and useful recipes, as well as reveal the secrets of preparing caviar from zucchini for the winter.

Recipes for zucchini snacks without roasting

Recipe No.1

Ingredients: 3 kg of zucchini, 2 kg of carrots, 0,5 kg of onion, a few tablespoons of sugar, 0,5 l of tomato or pasta sauce, 0,5 l of vegetable oil, salt, pepper.

Preparation: prepare all vegetables, wash them thoroughly, remove unnecessary parts.

Now put the squash mass in a saucepan or pan and add oil, put on fire. As soon as the vegetables begin to boil, reduce the fire and leave the caviar to languish under the lid.

While the caviar reaches the desired consistency, you need to prepare a container in which you then put the mass of zucchini and roll it up.

After the vegetables are prepared, they need to be finely chopped, and then passed through a meat grinder or chopped with a blender, adding salt.

Zucchini caviar without frying, the recipe of which we described, turns out to be very tender and not at all greasy. After all, vegetables fried in oil are saturated with vegetable fat, and caviar is more oily.

Recipe No.2

No need to fry vegetables in the next recipe. All the ingredients that were involved in the first recipe, without grinding or peeling, are laid out on a baking sheet and baked in the oven or on the grill. You can bake the vegetables in foil or lay them out on a baking sheet and drizzle with a little bit of olive oil.

After the vegetables are ready, the skin is separated from them and chopped. Such zucchini caviar without frying turns out to be very satisfying and extremely healthy.

Recipe No.3

This will be zucchini caviar for the winter without roasting using mayonnaise.

In addition, you need: zucchini 2 kg, carrots 1 kg, spices, tomato sauce 0,5 l, sugar 3 tbsp. spoons, vinegar, onion.

Cut the onion, main ingredient and carrot into medium cubes and pass through a meat grinder or blender.

After that, the vegetables should be put in a saucepan, salt, pepper, add sugar and let the vegetables boil. After that, the fire must be reduced and left to languish for about two hours.

Next, add tomato sauce, the remaining spices and mayonnaise.

When the caviar reaches readiness, it is laid out in sterile jars and rolled up. Banks need to be stored upside down for the first time, and then they are placed in a cold place.

Recipe No.4

This zucchini pasta recipe comes without oil. We will need:

• zucchini – 1,5 kg;
• carrots 1 kg;
• tomatoes 1 kg;
• onion 0,5 kg;
• greenery;
• salt.

First you need to peel the zucchini, but if the vegetable is young, then you can not do this. Cut the zucchini into cubes and place in a bowl.

Next, throw in the pan grated carrots on a fine grater.

Now you need to process the tomatoes with boiling water, finely chop them and send them to the rest of the vegetables. We also send finely chopped onion there.

Now all the ingredients need to be simmered for about 40 minutes until they are fully cooked.

Zucchini appetizer is served ready-made, in the same way that you got it in a saucepan or you can grind it with a blender.

One meal of zucchini snacks can be up to 250-300 grams, because it is very low in calories.

Recipe No.5

Zucchini paste can be cooked in a slow cooker. This recipe calls for: 2 kg zucchini, 750 gr. tomatoes, 400 gr. onion, 250 gr. carrots, tomato paste 2 tbsp. l, oil 2 tbsp. l, spices.

Preparation: Approximately 4,5 liters are placed in a slow cooker. Vegetables shrink during cooking, so they will all fit in the container.

First, pour boiling water over the tomatoes so that you can remove the skin from them. Now you need to chop the onions and vegetables. We put the “baking” mode and fry the onion a little until it is transparent. Now you can add carrots and stew them a little.

Now add the diced zucchini. Do not forget about the tomatoes, peel them and cut them into cubes, after which we send them to the rest of the vegetables.

Add the tomato paste after the tomatoes and mix everything well.

Now it remains to wait for the complete preparation of squash pasta. After that, it must be cooled and chopped with a blender. After that, it can be rolled into a glass container.

If you are making a vegetable snack for children, then it is not necessary to add tomato paste to it. An appetizer in a slow cooker turns out to be quite tender and very tasty, and most importantly, low-calorie.

What is useful zucchini snack

The beneficial properties of squash (or vegetable) caviar have long been known, especially if it is cooked without using the roasting process:

• improves digestion;
• saturates the body with useful vitamins;
• useful in intestinal diseases;
• normalizes the work of the digestive tract;
• increases and strengthens the immune system;
• improves metabolic processes in the body;
• gives energy;
• improves appetite.

For people who want to lose extra pounds, zucchini caviar is recommended as a main course while dieting. But we will not call it a diet, but we will call it a certain diet in which you can lose weight and saturate your body with useful trace elements.

This diet does not involve the use of alcohol, sugar (keep this in mind when preparing caviar), flour, potatoes, carbonated drinks.

During the week you can alternate zucchini appetizers with raw vegetables, with various meats, with fish, you can also eat zucchini caviar with boiled eggs, cereals (but not in large quantities).

How to choose ingredients for zucchini caviar

• it is advisable to choose young vegetables, then you will not need to remove the skin;
• choose vegetables without flaws, but slightly overripe;
• choose zucchini, carrots, and onions that are not too large.
• if you choose old zucchini, then for caviar it is better to peel them;
• Please note that if the peel of the zucchini is dense, then it means that there are a lot of seeds in it, which means that the taste of caviar will be a little fibrous.

What is squash caviar served with

This is a delicious and simple snack that can be eaten as a mono dish. At the same time, a common serving of zucchini snacks is on a piece of bread. Bread can be gray, white, with various seeds or seasonings.

You can also serve a sandwich with a sprig of dill, parsley or green onion feathers.

Zucchini caviar is also served with various raw vegetables or cereals. This vegetable appetizer goes well with rice and various types of meat.

Enjoy cooking this delicious snack, because it won’t take you much time, and in winter – we wish you bon appetit!