Zucchini caviar without vinegar for the winter 

Vinegar blanks are not welcome in every family. Some cannot use it for health reasons, some follow a healthy diet. In both cases, vinegar is excluded from the diet. Therefore, the recipe for tender zucchini caviar without vinegar for the winter is very popular. Dishes from zucchini are recommended for diabetes, for those who want to maintain harmony and for dietary nutrition.

Few decide to make blanks without vinegar for the winter. Vinegar helps preserve food in the winter, but proper sterilization helps squash caviar survive long periods of time in and out of jars. How to do it, we will consider below.

Necessary components for caviar

Of course, connoisseurs of zucchini dishes prefer young vegetables. They have a thin skin and very soft seeds. The taste of the workpiece is tender, and the consistency is homogeneous. In more “adult” zucchini, you will have to carefully cut the skin and remove all seeds. Only in this case, zucchini caviar without vinegar will turn out without lumps.

For tasty and nutritious caviar, the list of products includes:

• 2 kilograms of the main ingredient – young zucchini;
• 1 kilogram of juicy carrots;
• 5-6 pieces of fresh tomatoes or 1 cup of ready-made tomato paste;
• 0,5 kilograms of onions;
• 1 glass of unrefined vegetable oil;
• 2 tablespoons of salt;
• 2-3 clove garlic;
• 8 tablespoons of sugar.

Each ingredient requires preliminary preparation:

1. Before starting the processing of zucchini for caviar, it is necessary to wash it thoroughly. We cut the young ones right away, which we clean first.
2. Remove the husk from the onion and cut it into cubes.
3. We clean the carrots from the skin, and then chop them in the right way.
4. First we cut the tomatoes, pour over with boiling water and remove the skin. Then grind in a meat grinder or grind in a blender.

At the exit, we will always get a paste-like homogeneous mass, and the preparation of zucchini caviar without vinegar for winter use at the initial stage may differ. Different recipes for squash mixture usually contain a similar set of components, but the technology for processing them is different.

There are several options for preparing vegetables:

1. Wash and clean all vegetables. Then twist the zucchini, onions, carrots and tomatoes in a meat grinder. Pour sunflower oil into a container and heat a little. Add vegetables, stir and simmer. At the end of the process, salt the caviar, add chopped garlic, sugar and spices (if you want) and continue cooking until fully cooked.
2. Cut the peeled vegetables into small cubes.

   

   Fry the onions first, then add the carrots and lastly the zucchini. Stir the mixture, simmer until tender for an hour.

3. Further, it is recommended to grind the mass. To do this, use an immersion blender, a potato masher or a meat grinder. Naturally, load the vegetables slightly cooled into the meat grinder so as not to burn your fingers. We get a homogeneous puree of a beautiful color. It needs to be salted, pepper, add sugar and salt and simmer for another hour. And now – the nuances of sterilizing the workpiece, with the help of which zucchini caviar for the winter without vinegar will safely stand all winter.

   

4. During cooking, we sterilize the jars and, most importantly, the lids! We lay out the zucchini puree in jars, but do not roll it up, but simply cover it with lids. Pour water into a saucepan and put jars in it. Water should be at the level of the neck so that when boiling it does not flood the jars. Boil jars for 40 minutes. Then we take it out of the pan, roll it up, turn it over and be sure to wrap it up. Our caviar will cool slowly and for a long time, so it will warm up well. And this is the main condition for its long-term storage.

   

Varieties of recipes for harvesting without vinegar

To diversify the taste of their favorite zucchini caviar, many housewives like to experiment and add extraordinary ingredients to the recipe.

Zucchini caviar for the winter, for which vinegar is not needed, can be cooked with celery root. For this option, you will need to add 50 grams of celery root to the main set of ingredients.

We wash young zucchini well, which are “older” – peel them. Cut into slices no more than 1 cm thick. Heat oil in a frying pan and fry the zucchini. Cool, grind in a meat grinder. Let’s move on to the rest of the ingredients. Finely chop the celery root with carrots, fry the onion separately in sunflower oil. Peel the skin off the tomatoes, chop. To do this, use a meat grinder or a regular kitchen grater. We mix the components prepared for cooking, add the main spices, salt and sugar to taste. Simmer the zucchini puree without vinegar until the moisture evaporates.

We lay out the finished workpiece from zucchini in sterilized jars, cover with lids, put in a bowl with water and sterilize for 30-40 minutes, depending on the volume. For half-liter jars, half an hour is enough, liter jars need more time. After that, we roll up the jars and wrap them to cool.

The original recipe for zucchini caviar without vinegar for the winter with the addition of mushrooms is liked by housewives for its nutritional value and unusual taste.

To prepare the blank, you will need for 1 kilogram of young zucchini:

• 0,5 kg of fresh mushrooms;
• a pair of onions;
• 3-4 ripe tomatoes with good taste;
• 2 pcs. sweet pepper, thick-walled;
• 1 dessert flavor carrot;
• 1 bunch of fresh dill;
• 1 medium sized garlic head;
• 1 st. a spoonful of thick tomato paste;
• 0,5 cups of sunflower oil;
• 1 tbsp. a spoonful of lemon juice;
• salt, pepper and sugar to taste.

First, wash all the vegetables well and prepare the caviar for stewing. To do this, grate carrots, zucchini and sweet peppers on a coarse grater. Onions in half rings, tomatoes – in a meat grinder. Mushrooms cut into strips and, first of all, put in a pan. As soon as they are fried, take them out of the oil and put the onion in it. After 5 minutes, add carrots, after another 15 minutes – zucchini. We continue to simmer for a quarter of an hour, then put peppers and tomatoes. After half an hour, add mushrooms and tomato paste. Next, send salt, favorite spices, lemon juice, chopped herbs to the pan. Bring the mass to readiness, put it in sterile jars and sterilize for 30 minutes to be sure. We roll up and chill.

Conclusion

There are a lot of recipes for squash caviar without vinegar. Listed in this article is a small part of the creativity of lovers of culinary preparations. You can add your ingredients to instant caviar to check the taste and quality. And then prepare the winter preparation.