Squash caviar with carrots for winter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients according to the list. Zucchini for harvesting does not necessarily have to be milky ripeness, mature fruits are also suitable. Tomato paste can be purchased at the store or used as a home-made product. In the harvest season, such a preparation will turn out not only delicious, but also budget.

2. Step 2:

   

   Zucchini wash, clean, peel and remove the seeds, grind them with a blender, food processor or pass through a meat grinder. If the zucchini are young, then they can be crushed without cleaning, it is enough to rinse and dry. Squeeze out the excess juice from the squash mass and put it in a deep saucepan or in a thick-walled saucepan.

3. Step 3:

   

   Carrots are washed, cleaned and grated. If the carrots are fresh, just picked from the garden, the skin of the vegetables is still tender, it can not be cleaned off, it is enough to rub with a stiff brush to remove dirt.

4. Step 4:

   

   Peel the onion from the husk and finely chop it with a knife.

6. Step 5:

   

   Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan with a thick bottom, heat it up. Fry onions and carrots in oil, add finely chopped garlic, fry vegetables over medium heat for 5-7 minutes, stirring occasionally with a spatula.

7. Step 6:

   

   Add vegetable frying to a saucepan with zucchini, we also send tomato paste, sugar, salt and pepper there. Mix everything well, put it on fire, let the mixture boil, reduce the heat to a minimum and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally with a spatula so that the vegetables do not burn to the bottom of the pan.

8. Step 7:

   

   If you want the squash caviar to be more homogeneous in consistency, then at this stage you can punch the vegetable mixture again with a blender. Pour table vinegar into a saucepan with a vegetable mixture, mix everything with a spatula, let the mixture boil again and cook it for another five minutes over low heat. Turn off the fire.

9. Step 8:

   

   We lay out the squash caviar in sterile jars (the jars can be sterilized in one of the convenient and proven ways), immediately roll up the jars with sterile lids, turn the jars upside down, let them cool at room temperature "under a fur coat", remove the jars with caviar for storage in the refrigerator or cold pantry until winter. Bon appetit!