Carrot and onion marinade

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   To prepare a marinade of carrots and onions, prepare the following products: juicy carrots without a land flavor and a white middle, onions, tomato paste of good quality (and /or fresh tomatoes), salt, granulated sugar, vinegar 9%, a little water, spices according to taste, vegetable oil without a bright smell.

2. Step 2:

   

   Onions must be cleaned, washed, cut arbitrarily and lightly fried in vegetable oil until soft.

3. Step 3:

   

   Wash the carrots, peel and grate on a coarse grater, add to the onion and simmer until the carrots are soft over medium heat. Periodically mix carrots with onions with a spatula.

5. Step 4:

   

   Then carefully transfer the carrot and onion mass into a saucepan of a suitable volume, pour in water, put tomato paste, salt, granulated sugar, spices to taste (for example, bay leaf and pepper peas can be put at least) and mix. Simmer the marinade over low heat for an hour.

6. Step 5:

   

   At the end of cooking, pour in 9% vinegar, if you wish, add chopped garlic to taste, mix and let the ready marinade of carrots and onions stand for a while before serving, so that all the products exchange flavors even better, become richer and brighter. The marinade is good both warm and chilled.