Caviar "overseas": step by step recipe with photo

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

How to cook "overseas eggplant caviar"? You will find answers to these and other questions in the article. Surely everyone remembers a quote from the beloved Soviet film "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession": "Overseas eggplant caviar." Every time we watch this episode of the movie, we smile at a small amount of this treat. How to cook it, we will tell below.

Description

"Overseas" eggplant caviar is an appetizing appetizer that makes excellent preservation for the winter. It can often be found on store shelves, but home-cooked caviar will be much tastier and he althier.

It is known that eggplant contains an impressive amount of fiber, which normalizes the activity of the stomach. Caviar from this vegetable has a positive effect on the work of the heart. It contains potassium, and therefore it is useful for diabetes. Eggplant caviar can be eaten by dieters. After all, it is low-calorie.

By the way, during the time of Ivan the Terrible, no one knew about the existence of eggplant. Cooking and eating this vegetable began only in the 17th century.

Classic recipe

So what are the ingredients? You need to take:

• three eggplants;
• two cloves of garlic;
• a couple of onions;
• bunch of parsley;
• two carrots;
• 4 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• ground black pepper;
• food s alt to taste.

How to cook

According to this recipe, prepare "foreign" eggplant caviar as follows:

1. Cut the eggplant into thin slices, 1 cm thick. Then send them to a bowl, sprinkle with s alt.
2. Pour eggplants with a small amount of cool water, leave for 1 hour. They are s alted not only to eliminate bitterness, but also to prevent excessive absorption of oil.
3. Place the eggplants on the wire rack, bake for 20 minutes in the oven at 190°C.
4. After the time has elapsed, reduce the temperature in the oven to 130 ° C and bake for another 30 minutes until the eggplant is fully cooked.
5. Peel the onion, cut it thinly.
6. Peel the carrots, grate on a coarse grater.
7. Place the onion in a hot skillet with oil, fry until translucent. Then add the carrots and fry until the vegetables are ready.
8. Coarsely chop the baked eggplant, put in a pan, stir.
9. Chop the garlic with herbs with a knife or blender. Send the resulting mass to the vegetables.
10. Stew all ingredients for another 10 minutes, pepper and s alt to taste. The amount of garlic in the dish can be regulated by you.

Serve "overseas" caviar in a deep dish, laying it in a slide. It goes well with fresh bread.

With tomatoes

Take:

• tomatoes - 500 g;
• three onions;
• black pepper;
• 1 kg eggplant;
• 0.5 kg sweet pepper;
• vinegar - 3 tbsp. l.;
• 100 g sunflower oil;
• sugar - 1 tbsp. l.
• 3 tsp s alt;
• greens.

Do this caviar like this:

1. Wash the eggplants, cut off the stems, bake whole in the oven or microwave.
2. Peel the baked eggplant, cut and chop in a meat grinder.
3. Wash the tomatoes and chop them in the same way (you can pour boiling water over them in advance and remove the skin).
4. Seed sweet pepper, wash and chop. Do the same with the peeled onion.
5. Combine chopped vegetables and stir, adding sugar, ground pepper and s alt. Pour vegetable oil and vinegar here, add chopped greens (delicious with parsley). Stir again. "Overseas" caviar can already be eaten, or it can also be subjected to heat treatment.
6. Next, transfer the caviar to a deep frying pan and simmer over moderate heat for about an hour, stirring occasionally. The finished dish should turn brown.

Serve appetizing caviar with fried potatoes or just spread on bread andhelp yourself.

Zucchini caviar in a slow cooker

Let's find out how to cook squash caviar "overseas". Take:

• two carrots;
• two red bell peppers;
• s alt - 2 tbsp. l.;
• 1, 5 kg zucchini;
• two onions;
• garlic - three cloves;
• sugar - 1 tsp;
• hot pepper pod;
• 5 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking caviar

This recipe for "overseas" squash caviar suggests the following steps:

1. Cut the onion into cubes, send to the multicooker bowl.
2. Pour vegetable oil into the onion, set the "Baking" program for 40 minutes, remove the valve.
3. Grate the carrots and send to the onion, stir.
4. Chop peppers and zucchini, send to the multicooker bowl.
5. When the "Baking" mode is over, return the valve to its place, turn on the "Stew" program for 1 hour.
6. Add a little chili pepper, sugar, s alt to the caviar, stir.
7. 20 minutes before the end of cooking, add tomato paste and crushed garlic.
8. Chill the caviar and blend with an immersion blender until smooth.

Now start eating.

Zucchini caviar for the winter

How to make "overseas" caviar for the winter? Take:

• 1 kg carrots;
• onion - 1 kg;
• sugar - 4 tbsp. l.;
• zucchini - 3 kg;
• 1, 5 kg ripe tomatoes (or 150g tomato paste);
• bunch of dill, parsley;
• ¼ tsp ground black pepper;
• ¼ ground allspice;
• two heads of garlic;
• vinegar 9% - 2 tbsp. l.;
• parsnip root, parsley, celery - piece by piece;
• 200 ml vegetable oil;
• s alt - 2 tbsp. l.

Follow these steps:

1. Wash vegetables, cut into tiny cubes.
2. Chop the onion and grate the roots and carrots.
3. Fry the zucchini in vegetable oil, send to a common pan, in which you will then stew the workpiece.
4. Fry the carrots, transfer to the pan.
5. Fry the onion, send it there.
6. Peel the garlic, cut the cloves in half. Twist all components through a meat grinder.
7. Sterilize the caviar jars.
8. Put the vegetable mass to simmer over moderate heat for 60 minutes. Do not forget to add sugar, pepper, vinegar, s alt and tomato paste to it. If you used tomatoes, grind them in a meat grinder along with other vegetables. At the end, add chopped greens.
9. Pour the finished caviar into jars, sterilize them again for 15 minutes in a saucepan half filled with water, and roll up.

Now you can send the jars to a dark place for storage until the winter period.

Caviar for the winter eggplant

To make this caviar you will need:

• tomatoes - 1 kg;
• pair of bulbs;
• garlic - three cloves;
• eggplant - 1 kg;
• s alt - 1 tbsp. l.;
• vinegar 9% - 1Art. l.;
• two spoons of sugar.

Cook this caviar as follows:

1. Wash the eggplant well and remove the stalks.
2. Line a baking sheet with foil, put the eggplant on it, put it in a hot oven and fry on both sides.
3. Wash the pepper, remove the seeds and cut into cubes.
4. Chop the onion, saute it in vegetable oil until golden brown.
5. Add lettuce pepper to the onion, simmer for 10 minutes
6. Prepare the tomatoes for skinning. To do this, make a cross-shaped incision on them and blanch. Boil water in a separate saucepan, send tomatoes into it. Boil for half an hour.
7. Remove the pot from the heat, pour cool water over the tomatoes.
8. Remove eggplant from oven, cool slightly.
9. Remove the skin from tomatoes and eggplants, cut the fruits into 6 parts, pass everything through a meat grinder.
10. In a heavy-bottomed pot, send the eggplants, tomatoes, onions and lettuce peppers. Place over medium heat and simmer for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. After an hour, add sugar and s alt to the caviar.
11. After add crushed garlic and boil the food for another 15 minutes. Add vinegar to it at the end of cooking.
12. Prepare jars and lids. To do this, wash and sterilize them for 10 minutes over steam.
13. Fill sterile jars with caviar.
14. Roll up the jars, turn them upside down, wrap them in a blanket and leave them to cool overnight.

Easy recipe

We offer youcook very tender and fragrant caviar. You will need:

• three eggplants;
• four tomatoes;
• two onions;
• one carrot;
• two bell peppers;
• s alt;
• allspice;
• 1 tbsp l. vegetable oil.

Cook like this:

1. Wash all vegetables first and peel.
2. Put a large frying pan with a lid over medium heat, add a little vegetable oil. Pour in the onion, cut into small cubes.
3. While the onion is cooking, peel the eggplant. It can also be cooked unpeeled. Cut it very finely and send it to the onion.
4. Once the onion is golden, cover the pan with a lid. You can add some water. Don't forget to stir the food often.
5. Chop the bell pepper finely, grate the carrots on a coarse grater and send everything to the pan under the lid.
6. Finely chop the peeled tomatoes, send to the pan, stir. Add s alt, pepper, your favorite spices and turn down the heat.
7. Caviar needs to be stirred frequently as it can burn. Simmer until vegetables are soft for 10 minutes. After crushing, mash them into caviar. If there is too much juice in the caviar, remove the lid and cook without it.

Spread caviar on bread and help yourself. Have fun in the kitchen!