8 delicious recipes for cooking zucchini with apples for the winter
Summer residents often face a problem: zucchini grows faster than household members have time to eat them. While this is not the most perishable product, if you do nothing, you can lose a hard-grown crop. If the classic recipes for squash caviar, adjika and other canned snacks are boring, you can make a preparation for the winter from squash with apples.
Taste features of zucchini and apple snacks
Everyone has their own concept of delicious snacks: some like spicy, spicy, others - salty, others - sour, and fourth, serve unleavened. Zucchini dishes can satisfy everyone: they do not have their own pronounced taste, the result depends on what to cook them with.
Experimenting with different varieties of apples and spices, you can get a honey flavor, pungent pungency and acidity.
What is needed: ingredients and inventory
During the cooking process, you will need the following tools:
- sterilized cans, lids;
- knife, tablespoon;
- meat grinder or blender;
- deep saucepan;
- a terry towel or small blanket.
From products, except for apples and zucchini, salt and sugar are useful. Depending on the recipe chosen, you may need vinegar, sunflower oil, tomatoes, carrots, lemongrass, onions, garlic, pepper and other spices.
Preparation of vegetables and fruits
For seaming, it is not necessary to take young zucchini, ripe fruits are also suitable, but it is important that they are dense, not rotten. Such vegetables should be peeled, otherwise they will not boil down. From small green zucchini, the skin can not be removed, it is quite thin.
Be sure to remove the tail, pulp and seeds, then the blank will be better stored.
Wash, dry, peel apples before cooking. Peel off if desired.
Do the same with other vegetables.
Recipes and step-by-step preparation of winter preparations
There are different variations of the appetizer.
Classic recipe
Ingredients:
- zucchini - 1-1.2 kg;
- apple - 0.5 kg;
- vinegar - 30 ml;
- dill - several branches;
- salt - 1 tbsp. l .;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. l .;
- boiling water - 1 liter.
Cooking steps:
- Cut the base into thick half rings.
- Lay out the bottom of the cans with dill, place the slices.
- Pour salt, sugar into boiling water, add vinegar.
- Pour the marinade into jars.
- Re-sterilize.Line the bottom of the pan with a towel, cover with warm water, hold the open jars over low heat for 30-40 minutes.
- Roll up.
With carrots
Composition:
- the same and 0.3 kg of carrots.
Add carrots in small circles to apples and zucchini. The rest of the cooking steps are identical to the first recipe.
With tomatoes
Ingredients:
- add 0.3 kg of tomatoes to the main components.
Small whole tomatoes are suitable, they retain their shape better during the canning process.
Adjika from zucchini for the winter with apples
Components:
- zucchini - 1.5 kg;
- apple - 0.5 kg;
- carrots, onions - 0.3 kg each;
- tomato - 0.7 kg;
- garlic - 1-2 large heads;
- Bulgarian pepper - 0.2-0.3 kg;
- oil - 120 ml;
- sugar, salt - 1 tbsp. l .;
- vinegar - 50 ml;
- ground red pepper - to taste.
Cooking steps:
- Scroll prepared vegetables in a meat grinder.
- Mix with butter, add salt and sugar.
- Cook for about half an hour.
- Add garlic and pepper, let stand for another 5 minutes.
- Sterilize, roll up, turn over and wrap in blanket.
Caviar
Ingredients:
- zucchini - 1 kg;
- apple - 0.5 kg;
- carrots, tomato - 0.3 kg each;
- onions - 0.2 kg;
- oil - 80 ml;
- vinegar - 30 ml;
- salt, sugar, peppercorns, tomato paste - to taste.
Cooking steps:
- Scroll through a meat grinder, mix vegetables and fruits.
- Heat oil slightly in a saucepan.
- Lay out the vegetable puree.
- Simmer over low heat with the lid closed for 30-40 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add salt, sugar, crushed pepper and vinegar, keep on fire for another 2-5 minutes.
- Ready caviar can be turned with a blender for uniformity.
- Pour the caviar into jars. Can be re-sterilized.
- Roll up.
Zucchini with apples and garlic
Ingredients:
- zucchini - 4 kg;
- apples - 0.5 kg;
- garlic - 1-2 heads;
- oil - 0.5 l;
- vinegar, water - 250 ml each;
- salt, sugar, pepper, laurel - to taste.
Cooking steps:
- Combine the main ingredients with the garlic in a saucepan.
- Prepare the marinade with water, vinegar and oil.
- Add marinade to vegetables, boil for 5-10 minutes.
- Pour into jars, roll up.
Recipe with lemongrass leaves and apple juice marinade
Ingredients:
- zucchini - 1-1.2 kg;
- apple - 0.5 kg;
- apple juice - 0.4 l;
- water - 0.5 l;
- honey and salt - 1 tbsp. l;
- lemongrass leaves.
Cooking steps:
- Sliced zucchini and apples into the jars
- Add a couple of lemongrass leaves to each container.
- Mix water with juice, bring to a boil, salt, add honey.
- Pour marinade into jars, roll up, cover with a blanket.
A simple way to harvest without vinegar
Ingredients:
- zucchini - 1 kg;
- sour apple - 0.5 kg;
- salt - 1 tbsp. l .;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. l .;
- oil - 80 ml.
The cooking process is the same as for caviar. There is no need to add vinegar, apple acid is enough.
Rules for serving to the table
Rolled up vegetables are served as well as pickles, adjika and caviar - as a sauce for meat dishes. It is not forbidden to spread on bread and serve as a separate snack.
Terms and conditions of storage
The workpieces can be kept at room temperature (up to 20 ºC) without access to light. Useful and tasty seaming will remain throughout the year; it is not recommended to store it longer.
After opening the can, the shelf life of the snack is up to 4-5 days, so it is better to use small containers for canning.
