Appetite for the winter: recipes for making snacks with photos and videos

An alternative to ketchup has become a homemade tomato appetizer - a sauce prepared using a simplified technology. It is based on tomato puree, with various vegetable additives. In order to spice up the homemade sauce, various types of pepper, garlic, basil, parsley, thyme, cilantro are put into the blanks.

General rules for making sauce

There is no strict recipe. When preparing ketchup at home, you should follow the rules for preparing vegetables and the time of their heat treatment. Depending on the composition and spiciness, delicious homemade preparation is used as an appetizer, seasoning for soups and side dishes, sauce for main dishes.

Preparing vegetables

Before preparing an appetizer, all ingredients are carefully sorted out. Vegetables showing signs of spoilage are discarded.

Tomatoes are blanched by placing for 2 minutes. into hot water. After removing the skin, they are crushed in a blender.
Sweet and bitter peppers are cleaned, removing seeds and internal partitions. The pulp is finely chopped or minced in a meat grinder.
Vegetables such as apples, zucchini, eggplant are washed, the seed chambers are removed, cut into small pieces, 2 x 2 cm in size.
Carrots, onions and garlic are peeled and washed. The onion is finely chopped. Carrots and garlic are crushed with a grater.

The more delicate texture you want to get as a result, the more carefully vegetables with a dense structure should be chopped.

Heat treatment

The main ingredient in ketchup is tomatoes. They are boiled to the desired consistency for 1-2 hours. If a carrot is present in the recipe, then it is laid out in a pan before the rest of the vegetables for 15-20 minutes. Next, zucchini, apples or eggplants are placed in ketchup. Last but not least - onions and aromatic herbs. At the very end of cooking, spices, garlic and the main preservatives - s alt and sugar are added to ketchup. After that, the sauce is boiled down for about 20 more minutes and immediately packed in sterile jars.

Dishes for long-term storage of home canned food must be sterilized. If these simple rules are observed, the preparations for the winter are stored even at room temperature for a very long time.

Recipes

I offer you two appetizer recipes that I have already made on my own and was very pleased. Based on them, every housewife will be able to easily process the tomato crop into high-quality winter preparations.

The closest thing to traditional snacks prepared for the winter is a recipe for an appetizer with zucchini and hot peppers. Another recipe for a tomato preparation, which can be called an intermediate option between ketchup and a snack, is an adjika appetizer.

Recipe 1

The variant of the zucchini preparation is more like a vegetable snack. It has a thicker texture and can be served on its own.

Required for this recipe:

ripe tomatoes - 3 kg;
zucchini - 2 kg;
garlic heads - 4 pieces;
hot pepper - 2 pcs.;
refined vegetable oil - 0.2 ml;
granulated sugar - 1 cup;
s alt - 50g

Tomatoes and zucchini are cut into pieces 2x2 cm in size. Peppers are cut into strips.Vegetables, sugar, s alt are spread in the heated oil. The vegetable mass, so as not to burn, is stewed over low heat. The finished appetizer is hot and laid out in sterile jars. Canned food is hermetically sealed and turned upside down.

Recipe 2

Another version of appetit sauce can be compared with adjika. But we will call it an appetizer or salad, because it is prepared with the addition of an apple, sweet pepper, carrot.

To prepare this recipe you will need:

ripe tomatoes - 2.5 kg;
apples - 500 g;
sweet pepper - 500 g;
carrot - 500 g;
hot pepper - 2 pcs;
garlic - 200 g;
s alt - 50 g;
granulated sugar - 1 cup;
refined vegetable oil - 1 cup;
acetic essence 6% - 140g

Peeled vegetables are chopped in a meat grinder with a fine mesh. Put on fire and stew for about two hours. Hot pepper, granulated sugar are added to the boiled mass.

After 35-40 minutes, the salad mass is seasoned with garlic, s alt and vinegar. The finished product is laid out in sterile jars and hermetically sealed. It turns out a spicy, sweet and sour snack.

A variety of recipes allows you to choose any type of preparation, with zucchini or bell peppers, apples and eggplants. It can include vegetables that require urgent processing. This allows you to correctly preserve the crop by preparing Appetitka sauce of any complexity. Any kind of canned food - vegetable appetizer, spicy seasoning or homemade ketchup is sure to turn out tasty and appetizing.