Squash caviar with tomatoes through a meat grinder

A simple snack – zucchini with tomatoes through a meat grinder! Squash caviar according to this recipe resembles the taste of a store-bought product from Soviet times, so tender, fragrant and with a pleasant slight sourness in taste.
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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 8 % 1 g
Fats 25 % 3 g
Carbohydrates 67 % 8 g
55 kcal
GI: 75 / 0 / 25

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 3 hours
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make squash caviar with tomatoes through a meat grinder? Prepare the ingredients according to the list. Zucchini is better to use milk ripeness, when they have not formed seeds, and the flesh is tender, then there will be less cleaning, it is enough to remove the skin. But overripe vegetables are also suitable, however, it will take more time to cook.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash the zucchini, peel, remove the core with the seeds. Cut the pulp into cubes. Pass the zucchini through a meat grinder with a nozzle with the smallest grate, you can use a conventional manual meat grinder or electric, in the second case, the process, of course, will be faster.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Wash, peel and grate the carrots or also pass them through a meat grinder. Peel the onion from the husk and finely chop it with a knife or pass it through a meat grinder.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat it up. Fry the carrots with onions in oil until the carrots are soft and the onions are transparent, fry on average for about 10 minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally with a spatula so that the vegetables do not burn and spoil the taste of the finished product with bitterness.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Send the vegetable roast to a saucepan with zucchini. Wash the tomatoes, cut into several parts, cut out the attachment point of the peduncle, it is not necessary to remove the skin from tomatoes, in any case, it is not felt at all in the finished product. Pass the tomatoes through a meat grinder and put them in a saucepan with the rest of the vegetables.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Put a pot of vegetables on the fire, stir and simmer for an hour. It is necessary to extinguish at the lowest possible heat, because during extinguishing the vegetable mass begins to spray strongly. The lid of the pan can not be closed, because otherwise the vegetables will start to burn to the bottom of the pan, the vegetable mass must be constantly mixed.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Add sugar, salt, tomato paste to the pan, stir and simmer for about 40 minutes. A lot of juice is released from vegetables, especially from zucchini, and the task is to evaporate all this liquid.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Put a couple of bay leaves and a few peas of black pepper in a saucepan, garlic passed through a press. Stir and simmer the vegetables for about 20 minutes. Then take out the bay leaf, remove the sample for the sufficiency of sugar and salt to taste, pour in the vinegar. Stir, turn off the heat.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Arrange the squash caviar in jars that are sterilized in advance in a convenient way for you. Cover the jars with lids and sterilize them in a water bath for about 8 minutes, cans with a volume of 0.5 liters. Tighten the jars with lids, let them cool down "under the fur coat" and put them away for storage in the pantry. Bon appetit!

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Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Zucchini - 23   kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33   kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275   kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Bay leaf - 313   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Tomato paste - 28   kcal/100g
  • Black pepper peas - 255   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Table vinegar - 11   kcal/100g

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