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Zucchini caviar Italian style
Zucchini caviar Italian style is a delicious and light vegetable appetizer with an exquisite taste. Vegetable caviar is very low in calories, making it suitable even for dinner. This vegetable appetizer is prepared simply and quickly. The dish can be canned for winter in jars or stored in the refrigerator in sterilized containers (up to 3 weeks). If you don't know how to cook delicious zucchini caviar, then this step-by-step recipe with photos is for you!
Caloric value: 30 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.
Ingredients
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To prepare delicious and tender zucchini caviar Italian style, the following ingredients are needed:
- zucchini - 1 kg;
- hot pepper - 1 pc;
- carrot - 1 pc;
- red bell peppers - 2 pcs;
- olive oil - optional;
- tomato paste - 100 g;
- onion - 3 pcs;
- salt - optional;
- peeled tomatoes - 5 pcs;
- pepper mix - optional.
Preparation
- Chop the peeled onions into very small cubes.
- Sauté the onion until transparent in olive oil.
- Grate the carrot coarsely.
- Sauté the root vegetable together with the onion until soft.
- Add chopped zucchini to the vegetables. Cook the vegetables until most of the moisture evaporates from the zucchini.
- As soon as the moisture evaporates from the zucchini, add peeled chopped tomatoes, diced pepper, and tomato paste to the vegetable caviar. Mix the ingredients and cook until the zucchini, tomatoes, and peppers are soft. At the end of cooking, season the dish with pepper and salt to taste. You can add herbs to taste and desire: dried garlic, paprika, golden turmeric, dried basil, oregano, thyme, or parsley.
- Serve the fragrant, juicy, tender, and very tasty zucchini caviar to the table! The appetizer turns out incredibly appetizing, pairs excellently with dark bread or freshly baked rolls. Enjoy your meal! To prepare zucchini caviar for winter and achieve the consistency of store-bought appetizers, it is advisable to blend the vegetables with a standard immersion blender at the end of cooking, pack them into clean sterilized jars, and additionally sterilize in a pot of water for a quarter of an hour.
Zucchini caviar made this way will become a bright feature at your table. The dish is easy to prepare in a home kitchen. This zucchini caviar for winter can be stored for a very long time in a cool dark place. It is important not to forget about sterilizing the lids.
