Growing zucchini for a summer resident is a pleasure, because they are unpretentious and rarely get sick, they give good yields. You can cook many dishes from healthy and tasty fruits and constantly replenish your stock of recipes. For example, it is delicious to cook zucchini for the winter to please your family and guests in the cold season.
Zucchini marinated with coriander
Do you think what to cook from zucchini in order to quickly process the harvested crop and the preparations were stored for a long time? An excellent solution is to pickle the fruit. Cut a kilogram of well-washed zucchini into slices along the longitudinal line, wash and dry a couple of dill umbrellas.
Dissolve 1.5 tablespoons of coarse salt in a liter of water, add half a glass of granulated sugar and apple cider vinegar. Boil marinade and remove from heat. Place the dill in a sterile glass container and - vertically - zucchini slices.
Place in each jar some cloves and 3-4 allspice peas, to the taste of coriander seeds. Pour marinade over everything. Immediately roll up the pickled zucchini for the winter, turn the container upside down and cover with a fleece blanket, a blanket. After a day, put the jars in a cool place.
To cook delicious marinated zucchini and immediately enjoy a snack, cut fresh dairy fruits into thin strips using a vegetable cutter and cover with a mixture of vegetable oil (tablespoon), 9% vinegar (teaspoon), crushed garlic (2 cloves), as well as to taste of salt, pepper and chopped herbs. An hour later, the appetizer is ready.
Delicious homemade squash caviar
How not to cook squash caviar for the winter, because this is a popular and tasty dish that can be served with a side dish, spread on sandwiches. Rinse and peel 3 kg of zucchini, then pass through a meat grinder and cook the resulting mass for 2.5-3 hours in a thick-walled saucepan, making a small fire.
In mashed potatoes with stirring, add 2 tablespoons of 9% vinegar, a glass of tomato paste, 2 glasses of vegetable oil and crushed garlic (2 heads). Put half a glass of granulated sugar and a tablespoon of table salt, 250 g of mayonnaise and keep everything on the stove for half an hour. Place the squash caviar for the winter in sterilized jars and roll up.
For a change, caviar can be made zucchini-eggplant. To do this, hold finely chopped eggplant in salted water for 20 minutes, fry in vegetable oil and add to the workpiece. Choose the proportions of vegetables to taste.
Vegetable stew with zucchini for the winter
Zucchini goes well with many vegetables, which allows you to add them to various stews, stocking up with a hearty snack for the winter.
Wash and dry all vegetables. Peel and chop 0.5 kg of carrots, bell peppers, courgettes, eggplants. Chop a bunch of parsley, finely grate the head of garlic or pass through a garlic press.
Prepare the sauce from a kilogram of tomatoes rolled in a blender or through a meat grinder, a quarter cup of 6% vinegar, 180 ml of vegetable oil and the same amount of granulated sugar, two tablespoons of table salt. Pour in the vegetable mixture, add the bay leaf and 3-4 allspice peas and simmer the stew for 40-45 minutes over medium heat. Roll up hot in sterile jars.
It is not enough to cook zucchini deliciously for the winter - the blanks must be stored correctly. Such homemade snacks, while the sterile container is not open, can be kept at a temperature of no more than 20 ° C, if sterilization was not used - only at a temperature not higher than 10 ° C. In any case, the harvested zucchini should not be stored for more than a year.
