Salad of zucchini tomatoes peppers and onions for winter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a salad of zucchini tomatoes and peppers for the winter? Prepare the ingredients according to the list. In the harvest season, this salad can be called a budget, especially if the vegetables are from your plot. It is better to use young zucchini for salad, which still have a tender skin and practically no core with seeds has formed. If you have them old, cut off the peel and remove the bones from them. Wash the zucchini and cut into small cubes.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash, peel and grate the carrots on a medium grater. It is not necessary to add it, but it gives the salad a pleasant sweet taste.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel the onion and cut it into cubes with a knife.

4. Step 4:

   

   Wash the bell pepper, cut out the peduncle with the seed pod. Cut the flesh of the peppers into strips or cubes, whichever you like best.

5. Step 5:

   

   Wash the tomatoes, cut out the attachment point of the stalk, cut the pulp into small cubes. If the skin of tomatoes seems too thick, then it can be removed by pouring boiling water over the fruit, and then dropping it into cold water.

6. Step 6:

   

   Peel the garlic cloves from the film and finely chop with a knife.

8. Step 7:

   

   Put carrots, onions, zucchini and bell pepper in a saucepan with a thick bottom or a saucepan. Put it on the fire. Pour in a couple of tablespoons of water, stir and simmer over medium heat for 20 minutes.

9. Step 8:

   

   Then put tomatoes and garlic in a saucepan with vegetables. Add sugar and salt, stir and simmer for another 10 minutes, stirring occasionally with a spatula so that the vegetables do not burn to the bottom of the pan.

10. Step 9:

    

    Pour vegetable oil into a saucepan. Add bay leaf, peppercorns, allspice. Stir, simmer the vegetables in oil for about 10 minutes. Pour vinegar to them, mix. Keep the vegetables on the fire for a couple more minutes and turn off the heat.

11. Step 10:

    

    Prepare sterilized jars in advance. It is better to use small cans so that after opening the salad was immediately eaten and not stored in an open jar for a long time. Wash the cans with soda solution and sterilize them in one of the convenient and proven ways: in a water bath, in a microwave oven or in an oven. Wash the lids and boil them. Then dry it.

12. Step 11:

    

    Arrange the salad in sterile jars, roll up with sterile lids and let cool under a blanket at room temperature. Put it away for storage in a cool pantry for the winter. Enjoy your meal!