Murmansk cook reveals zucchini winter snack secret
Zucchini lovers will surely enjoy it
In the Murmansk region, zucchini season continues, and home cooks are already sharing their favorite ways to preserve vegetables for winter. A northern resident, Olga Olegovna, told 51.RU how to make a savory appetizer of zucchini, tomatoes and onions. The main secret of the recipe is frying the vegetables separately so the zucchini keep an appetizing golden crust.
For the appetizer, the zucchini is first washed, peeled and deseeded. If the vegetable is young and tender, this step can be skipped. The zucchini is then cut into slices 4–5 millimeters thick.
The tomatoes are peeled. To do this, a cross-shaped cut is made on each vegetable, they are covered with boiling water and left for about five minutes. After that, the skin comes off easily.
The onion is cut into half-rings about 3–4 millimeters wide. The zucchini are fried until golden and transferred to a separate dish. Then the onion is fried until golden.
«If you fry everything together at once, the zucchini will be stewed and without a crust, and in this appetizer that is the best part,» Olga Olegovna explains.
After that, the prepared tomatoes and fried zucchini are added to the vegetables, and the mixture is stewed. At the end of cooking, one and a half tablespoons of apple cider vinegar are added and the mixture is stewed for about five more minutes.
The finished hot appetizer is placed into pre-sterilized jars and sealed with sterilized lids. After cooling, the preserve is put away for storage.
According to the northern resident, it is the preliminary frying of the zucchini that makes this preserve especially appetizing: the pieces keep a browned crust and do not turn into a shapeless stewed mass.
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