Often, a person who eats animal products in everyday life, having made a decision to observe an Orthodox fast, is lost, not knowing how to eat and how to diversify the lean menu. Vegetable caviar recipes will come to the rescue, which will be appropriate on the festive table.
Pumpkin caviar
The list of ingredients required for making pumpkin caviar is not long. You will need:
- pumpkin,
- onion,
- fresh tomatoes or tomato paste, or a combination of fresh tomatoes and pasta,
- vegetable oil,
- as well as additional ingredients such as salt, sugar and spices.
Take products in proportions to your liking, vegetables in approximately equal quantities. Pour 50 ml of vegetable oil into a frying pan with high sides, put 300 grams of chopped onions, 300-400 grams of pumpkin, grated on a coarse grater.
Simmer until soft, cover the skillet with a lid and stir the vegetables from time to time.
Add 300 grams of coarsely chopped tomatoes and 1 tablespoon of tomato paste. Add sugar and salt immediately to taste. And add spices. For pumpkin caviar, spices and herbs such as turmeric, coriander, fenugreek, marjoram, nutmeg are suitable. Or use your own spices. You can also use a ready-made vegetable mixture such as sabji masala. Simmer for about 5 minutes, then blend or mince.
Mushroom caviar
Simmer 200 grams of sliced mushrooms and 2 carrots, grated on a coarse grater, in a thick-walled saucepan, adding 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
When mushrooms are tender, add salt, ground nutmeg, black pepper and coriander, a tablespoon of tomato paste and a tablespoon of sugar.
Stir, simmer for a few more minutes, remove from heat and wipe with a blender or mince.
False fish roe
The whole secret of making false fish roe lies in the use of seaweed. The easiest option is a ready-made seaweed salad.
Take 50 grams of seaweed, chop, passing through a meat grinder. Grind two red bell peppers and one Yalta sweet onion in the same way.
Stir, drizzle with lemon juice and season with a tablespoon of flaxseed oil. It is flaxseed oil that has the viscous taste of fish oil, which gives the false fish roe its characteristic taste.
In the same way, you can cook caviar from courgettes, eggplants, beets, potatoes, onions, carrots, cauliflower, etc.
