Eggplant salad for winter without sterilization

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make eggplant salad for winter? Prepare all the necessary products. Of course, such a preparation is best prepared in the vegetable season, when there are a lot of fragrant tomatoes and elastic eggplants on sale. Choose eggplants small, with a matte skin, tomatoes are fleshy and most importantly fragrant.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash the eggplants, remove the stems and cut into a medium-sized cube.

3. Step 3:

   

   Pour the chopped blueberries with lightly salted water and leave for 10 minutes so that the eggplants give up their bitterness. Then drain the water.

4. Step 4:

   

   Remove the seeds and stalks from the peppers and cut into strips.

5. Step 5:

   

   Peel the onion and cut it into thin half rings. You will peel the onions much faster and easier if you first hold the bulbs in cool water for about 20 minutes.

6. Step 6:

   

   Wash tomatoes, remove the stalk and cut into cubes. Tomatoes can be replaced with tomato paste based on the calculation that 150 g of tomato paste is taken instead of 1 kg of tomatoes.

7. Step 7:

   

   Put all the chopped vegetables in a bowl with a thick bottom. Add salt and sugar.

9. Step 8:

   

   Pour in vegetable oil and vinegar. The recipe uses ordinary table vinegar 6-9%. If you have acetic essence, then dilute it with water in a ratio of 1:8.

10. Step 9:

    

    Let the vegetables stand for 30 minutes so that they give juice.

11. Step 10:

    

    Bring the vegetable mass to a boil and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, for 40 minutes.

12. Step 11:

    

    While the vegetables are cooking, sterilize the jars in any convenient way. I pour some water into the jars and put it in the microwave for 5-7 minutes. But you can sterilize the jars and just hold them over steam or in the oven at 100 degrees for about 30 minutes. Boil the lids for 5 minutes.

13. Step 12:

    

    Arrange the salad in sterilized jars.

14. Step 13:

    

    Close the lids tightly or roll up with a typewriter. Sterilization is not required for this workpiece. Such a salad is stored in ordinary apartment conditions, without a refrigerator.

15. Step 14:

    

    Bon appetit!