Caviar from green tomatoes for the winter: the "golden" recipe from an old book

You - happy owner of green tomatoes? Lucky! Ovoschevodu not have to wait until the "Emerald" from the garden ripen and take the usual color. Now you can make delicious preparations for the winter. Today I will describe a recipe, proven for decades - spawn of green tomatoes.

Once I got as much as 3 drawer green tomatoes, just brought from the greenhouse. The Internet has been a lot of recipes, but I remembered: in the old "table" the notebook from the sideboard were blank from green tomatoes.

Rummaging through old things, I found a "manuscript" and found two options: Georgian for those who love witty and pozhguchee, and caviar. Today I share with you the second option because it is versatile and easy! Then I learned that about the same recipe my aunt enjoyed since the days of the USSR, and the whole family eats the workpiece for both cheeks. Therefore, I guarantee: tested over the years!

List of ingredients: that the hostess to prepare?

As you, my golden readers may have guessed, the main and most important ingredient delicious vegetable caviar will be green tomatoes. 1 kg is necessary to take additional participants composition:

• 500 g of onion turnip. In recent years, I used purple "Yalta" onions, because it is very like the taste. Now in my kitchen it is more than a frequent guest. You can also take a normal, collected from his garden.

• Garlic - 8-12 cloves to taste. Attaches the calf and pungency is well-known taste / smell))) In the original recipe says 10-12, but I put a little less. There is a strong burning food I forbade my gastroenterologist (hello, gastritis!)
• 500 g of carrot. It will be an excellent complement tomatoes green. And due to the sweetness softens pungency of onions and garlic. The taste of caviar will balanced.

These are the main ingredients. Supplement them:

• Sugar - 4 tbsp. l;
• Salt - 1 st. l;
• 2 tbsp. l. tomato paste for color;
• 6 tablespoons. l. vegetable (sunflower or olive) oil;
• Article 1.5. l black pepper for peppercorns;
• 2 tbsp. l. vinegar. Let me remind you that the concentration of 9%, but it's probably you already know.

My aunt told modern addition prescription, which spied on the Internet: add 1 tbsp. l. paprika. It will make the eggs blushing, because the natural color is not to everyone's taste) Get something like this:

In general, choose the option that you prefer.

Cooking process:

1. The work begins with the preparation of tomatoes. We must make sure that no corrupt and all the fruit ready to be turned into a tasty snack winter. Tomatoes were washed under running water, cut into several pieces, removing the rigid core and the stalk.

2. Then in the course of entering a food processor, though my aunt still generally use old Soviet meat grinder. You know, such a heavy and iron, which is more to the table should be screwed. You can use anything you like, the main thing - to turn tomatoes in puree.

It's okay if they stay small pieces. The taste is not affected!

3. The resulting green mashed potatoes should be boiled in oil. To be honest, I still do not really understand the purpose of this procedure, but it is written pen - not cut down with an ax! Aunt, for example, says: so the taste will be better. In general: pour oil into the pan, put mashed, bring to the boil and keep the lid 15 minutes.

Fire must be weak. Otherwise caviar will zazharki.

4. Grate the carrots and onions, mix. Aunt also broil them, but I prefer not to mess around. Maybe we were wrong?

5. Add carrot pulp / onions in the pan to the languishing green tomatoes. Cook, covered for 10 minutes.

6. Now it's time to add the salt, sugar, spices, passed through the press garlic cloves and tomato paste. Stir and leave to simmer for another 5 minutes.

7. Turn off gas to cool slightly, add vinegar 9% and once again brought to the boil. Roll up to the banks!

Try to make at least 2 banks - I am sure you will fall in love with a recipe and make next year even more. Put a "Thumbs Up" if the article was interesting.