Blue caviar for winter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   In order to prepare caviar from blue eggs for the winter, prepare eggplants, tomatoes, onions, sweet bell peppers, carrots. You will also need salt, 9% vinegar, granulated sugar, odorless vegetable oil. From spices, you can add a little ground black pepper, ground paprika.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash the eggplants, cut off the tips, cut the flesh into cubes, add salt, mix and leave for 15-20 minutes to get rid of possible bitterness. Rinse the eggplants under running water, let the water drain and slightly dry the eggplant cubes.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil to the frying pan, fry the chopped eggplants until lightly browned and slightly softened.

4. Step 4:

   

   Put the fried eggplants in a saucepan.

5. Step 5:

   

   Peel carrots, grate on a coarse grater, fry with 2-3 tablespoons of oil until soft and transfer to a saucepan with eggplants.

7. Step 6:

   

   The same should be done with sweet bell pepper: wash, clean, cut the flesh into squares, lightly fry and add to the pan with the rest of the vegetables.

8. Step 7:

   

   And only the onion remains. Similarly: clean, cut into cubes, fry, combine with vegetables.

9. Step 8:

   

   Add salt, granulated sugar, spices to taste to the pan. Stir and simmer for about 40 minutes. Vegetables should become soft, exchange flavors and acquire the structure of caviar. At the end of cooking, add vinegar to the vegetables. Mix it up.

10. Step 9:

    

    Put the hot caviar from the blue ones for the winter immediately into sterile jars (2-2.5 liters of caviar is obtained from the specified amount of products). Immediately seal the jars with sterile caps. Turn the jars upside down, cover with a warm handkerchief and leave to cool completely.