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How sometimes it is nice to open a jar of homemade squash caviar in winter, when there are not enough vegetables and vitamins. It's even more pleasant when squash caviar prepared for the winter with my own hands. We offer you several recipes and tips on how to make zucchini caviar, as well as tell you why zucchini are useful, how many calories are in zucchini caviar and what is the best way to serve it on the table.
Why is a zucchini dish useful?
Zucchini caviar is not only tasty, but also incredibly healthy. The dish improves digestion, saturates the body with useful trace elements and vitamins. The calorie content of squash caviar is very low. One hundred grams contains only 70 kcal. This suggests that it can be used by people who are on a diet for health reasons or want to lose extra pounds. The dish is very quickly and easily absorbed by our body.
Also, a zucchini dish contains a lot of potassium, which is useful for people prone to swelling, with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver. Pasta from this vegetable stimulates peristalsis, improves bowel function, normalizes its microflora. As you can imagine, the most useful homemade squash caviar, cooked by hand, without the use of various artificial preservatives and from proven ingredients.
So, this dish:
- lowers cholesterol levels;
- improves digestion;
- has a low calorie content;
- normalizes the level of hemoglobin;
- has the properties of a diuretic;
- it is useful for people suffering from diabetes.
Homemade delicious caviar recipes
There are an incredible number of recipes on how to cook squash caviar at home. We offer you several classic home-made options for the most delicious dish.
Recipe number 1
For the future dish, you will need the following ingredients:
- one and a half kg of zucchini;
- 2 pieces of medium onions;
- 4 pieces of medium young carrots;
- 2 pieces of bell peppers;
- 2 small packages of tomato paste;
- 150 g sunflower oil;
- salt and sugar, 3 teaspoons each.
Preparation: First, chop the onion and pepper into smaller pieces. In a convenient frying pan, heat the oil and put the onion there, fry thoroughly, but make sure that the product does not burn. We spread chopped zucchini and carrots to the onion. Add half a glass of clean water. Now all the ingredients in the pan need to be stewed well, but without covering, so as not to retain excess liquid.
After 10-15 minutes you need to add spices and tomato paste, simmer for another 5-7 minutes. It remains to remove from the stove and you can start your meal. If we are talking about harvesting for the winter, then for this you need to prepare a certain container. A freshly prepared zucchini dish can be laid out in convenient hermetically sealed jars and sent to a cold place.
Recipe number 2
You can cook zucchini caviar for the winter at home in a different way. For cooking we need:
- 250 g tomatoes;
- 400 gr. zucchini;
- 700 gr. eggplant;
- 300 gr. carrots;
- 300 gr. pepper;
- 5 cloves of garlic;
- 440 g onions;
- 20 gr. salt;
- 160 ml olive oil;
- 5 gr. black pepper.
First you need to finely chop the onion and rub the carrots. Then cut the bell pepper into cubes. Now all these vegetables need to be fried in olive oil.
Now chop the eggplants, tomatoes and courgettes into cubes.
Then transfer the vegetables from the pan to the cauldron and add the zucchini, eggplant and tomatoes there.Add some olive oil and let the vegetables simmer for 60 minutes. After about 30 minutes, as you put the vegetables in the cauldron, add spices and pre-chopped garlic to them.
When you see the vegetables have softened, you can remove them from the heat and grind them in a blender until they are pasty. Then this mass can be rolled up into sterilized jars. The recipe for this squash caviar is quite simple, but it turns out to be excellent.
Recipe number 3
Another interesting cooking recipe that we give step by step. Someone might say that this is vegetable caviar, but still its basis is zucchini.
Ingredients: mushrooms 1 kg, zucchini 3 kg, carrots 1.5 kg, eggplant 2 kg, onions 0.5 kg, tomatoes 1 kg, dill, parsley, bell pepper 1.5 kg, lemon juice, salt, pepper, vegetable oil ...
Preparation: in this recipe, the vegetables must be thoroughly peeled and seeds removed, then the vegetables must be cut into small cubes.
Boil mushrooms in salted water.
Chop the onion finely and grate the carrots, fry them in oil. Now add the zucchini and eggplant to the vegetables. While the ingredients are stewing, finely grate the bell pepper and gradually add it to the main vegetables.
Now finely chop the mushrooms and also send them to the pan or cauldron.
Now it's time for the tomatoes: peel them off and grate. Now send the remaining ingredients to the cauldron. All vegetables should be well stewed, and then leave them to simmer over very low heat.
When the dish is ready, it can be packaged and rolled up.
Oddly enough, but homemade preparations can be enjoyable during their preparation, if everything is done correctly and quickly. By the way, any dishes need to be cooked only in a good mood, then they will turn out to be the most delicious and sincere.
Recipe number 4
And this recipe does not involve frying, but baking vegetables.
To do this, we need the following ingredients: zucchini 2 kg, onions 1 kg, carrots 1.5 kg, tomatoes 1.5 kg, bell peppers 0.5 kg, hot green peppers 2 pcs, garlic, turmeric, paprika, olive oil, ground pepper, salt, sugar.
Preparation: cut all the vegetables into identical cubes, and cut the carrots into rings. Put all the ingredients in a baking sheet and pour a little olive oil.
Now you need to preheat the oven to 200-220 degrees and place our vegetables on the middle shelf. Bake the vegetables for about 40 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Now take out the vegetables and grind them with an immersion blender, adding spices and sugar, which will add spice. After that, the dish needs to be boiled in a saucepan for about 5 minutes and can be laid out in jars.
Making such caviar at home does not take much time, and in winter you will gladly enjoy a delicious dish.
What is squash caviar served with?
Such a simple dish, as it seems to us, can be served very beautifully. For example, buy a baguette, lightly fry it in a clean skillet, and serve the squash paste rolled into a ball on this slice of bread. For beauty, you can add a few green onion feathers.
Caviar goes very well with gray bread and herbs.
Cooking such loaves will not take you much time, but you will definitely please your household with the modern serving of a familiar dish. For winter options, a small amount of butter can be applied to a slice of bread to make it more satisfying.
It goes well with potatoes, any kind of meat and other vegetables. It is served both as a cold snack and as a hot one. But in many homes, they make zucchini joy just to spread it on bread.
Zucchini caviar is often wrapped in pita bread, making a kind of homemade shawarma. Zucchini pasta with thin bread goes well. Some housewives make pancakes from squash caviar in winter, adding previously rye flour. Zucchini caviar with any porridge is good for lunch. It will be a very satisfying and delicious lunch.In the morning, zucchini spread is great with an omelet and thinly sliced cucumber. Or, you can boil the rice and serve it with a little of your homemade pasta.
Recommendations for cooking squash caviar
- It is very important that there are good dishes: a cauldron with thick walls, a high frying pan.
- If you want the zucchini paste to be tender, then it must be passed through a blender or meat grinder.
- Choose young fruits for the dish, then it will be tender and very tasty. And in this case, you do not need to peel the vegetables.
- Preparing dietary squash caviar is not difficult at all: just bring the vegetables to a state of softness in a pan without using oil, and then simply grind the vegetables in a blender.
- You can make a pasta with vegetables that have been completely baked in the oven beforehand. In this case, more vitamins and useful microelements are stored in them.
Conclusion
There are countless recipes for squash caviar: it is made with apples, spicy, with vinegar, with mayonnaise (well, this is not for everybody), with sour cream, it is cooked in a slow cooker, grilled, with and without tomatoes, large with pieces and tender, as in store. In any case, if a piece of your soul is invested in this dish, then it will definitely be appreciated by your family and friends.
