Bulgarian and hot pepper adjika with tomatoes for winter

Easy and quick to cook, very tasty to eat. The most successful homemade preparation of tomatoes and bell peppers! During the winter, everything is eaten, down to the last jar! A great addition to any meat dish (and not only). Cook, you won't regret it!
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 7 % 1 g
Fats 36 % 5 g
Carbohydrates 57 % 8 g
82 kcal
GI: 67 / 0 / 33

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare the products. Wash the vegetables thoroughly with a brush under running water. Dry the greens after washing to remove excess moisture. Peel the garlic from the husk. Cut tomatoes and peppers into slices.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Mince tomatoes together with the skin. Or, if desired, you can remove it beforehand by pouring boiling water over the tomatoes. Instead of a meat grinder, you can use a blender. Pour the tomato mass into a saucepan with a thick bottom, bring it to a boil and cook over low heat for half an hour, stirring.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Bulgarian and hot peppers pass through a meat grinder. Chop the parsley finely with a knife.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Add chopped pepper and chopped parsley to the tomato mixture. Stir, let it boil and cook for 20 minutes, stirring.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Add vegetable oil, salt and sugar to the boiling mass, mix.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Cook for another 10 minutes, stirring constantly so that it does not burn.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Chop the dill. Grate the garlic or pass it through a garlic press.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Add the dill and garlic to the boiling mass and cook for another 15 minutes, stirring.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Sterilize the jars and lids. Fill the hot jars with adjika and immediately roll up. Turn the jars upside down, wrap with a blanket and leave to cool for a couple of days. Then put it away for storage in the cellar or closet. I got 7 0.5-liter cans.

Cooking homemade adjika will not take much effort and time, and its bright piquant taste and aroma will delight you all winter. The amount of hot pepper can be changed according to your taste, you can also supplement the adjika with various favorite spices.

According to one version, adjika appeared from the tricks of Central Asian shepherds who grazed sheep high in the mountains and, giving the animals salt, forced them to eat more grass and gain weight faster. In ancient times, salt was very expensive, and rich people, hiring shepherds, gave them salt mixed with pepper for this purpose, so that they could not use it for food. However, very quickly shepherds fell in love with this mixture, diversifying it with fragrant alpine herbs and garlic. Since then, the mixture is called apyrpyl-jika, which means pepper salt. Otherwise, the mixture is called adjiktzatza, or salt ground with something, or simply adjika, that is, red salt.

How easy is it to peel tomatoes? Wash them, make criss-cross incisions on top with a sharp knife. Put it in boiling water for 1-2 minutes. Remove, cool slightly and remove the skin.

Calorie content of the products possible in the dish

  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Parsley greens - 45   kcal/100g
  • Dill greens - 38   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Hot capsicum - 40   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g

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