How to cook delicious beetroot caviar for the winter

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

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• Cooking time:

  1 hour

Ingredients

• beet
• onion
• garlic
• tomato paste
• vegetable fat
• Provencal herbs
• spices
• vinegar essence

Beetroot caviar has been known to housewives since Soviet times, then this appetizer was sold in stores, and the preparation was really very tasty. Today, there are several hundred options for making such caviar, and each recipe contains a product that gives the appetizer a distinctive aroma and taste. You can cook beetroot caviar very tasty if you follow the recipes described. As a result, for the winter the hostess gets an excellent snack, which used to be called "lick your fingers" caviar.

You will lick your fingers

This version of the preparation of the blank is called "lick your fingers" and for good reason, because the finished snack turns out to be very tasty and aromatic.

Required products:

• spices to taste;
• Provence herbs - 5 grams;
• young garlic - 5 cloves;
• beets - 1.5 kg;
• vinegar essence - 5 ml;
• onions - 2 pieces;
• vegetable fat - 50 ml;
• tomato paste - 4 tablespoons.

Cooking process

Beets should be boiled, adding the necessary spices to the water, boil the vegetable until it becomes very soft

The onions are chopped and sent to hot oil, the vegetable is fried until golden brown, after which the beets, chopped with a grater, are placed on it. Leave the vegetables on low heat for at least twenty minutes

• When the specified time has elapsed, spices and four tablespoons of tomato paste are added to the appetizer. If she is not at home, you should use tomatoes. Leave the workpiece on fire for another eight minutes.
• It remains to add a little garlic and vinegar essence to the dish. As soon as the caviar has cooled, it is transferred to jars and corked.

With horseradish

This is another option for making beetroot caviar "lick your fingers." According to this recipe, you can cook a delicious snack, and save the beets for the winter. As a result, we get a spicy and slightly spicy appetizer.

Required Ingredients:

• salt to taste;
• onions - 2 heads.
• fresh beets - 4 pieces;
• grated horseradish - to taste;
• mayonnaise - 2 tablespoons;
• vinegar essence - 5 ml.

Cooking steps:

1. The beets are not peeled, but simply washed, and then boiled for an hour. Only after cooling, the vegetable is cleaned and chopped on a fine grater.
2. Chopped onions are fried in vegetable fat, after which chopped beets are transferred to it. The ingredients are stewed for several minutes with the addition of salt and spices.
3. When the snack "lick your fingers" is ready, add chopped horseradish and acetic acid to it, you can add a little garlic for pungency and aroma.
4. The workpiece is given a little time to cool down, and then transferred to jars and sealed with lids.

Harvesting with garlic

This beetroot caviar recipe does not use onions and carrots, so there will be no need to fry the appetizer.

Required Ingredients:

• fresh beets - 600 grams;
• granulated sugar - 10 grams;
• vegetable fat - 3 tablespoons;
• young garlic - 2 cloves;
• lemon juice - 1 spoon;
• table salt - 5 grams.

Cooking steps:

The beets are boiled until tender and the vegetable is allowed to cool, after which the product is chopped with a blender

Vegetable fat is poured into a pan and heated, after which the beets are sent there

Add a little salt and lemon juice to the workpiece, add granulated sugar and leave to simmer for fifteen minutes to get caviar of the desired consistency

When a couple of minutes remain until cooked, chopped garlic is added to the beets

The workpiece is transferred to jars and sent to be stored in the refrigerator.

Harvesting with onions

Here, onion will be used as an additive, this product has properties to improve the taste of any dish, therefore it is used especially often in beetroot caviar for the winter. You can easily prepare an appetizer according to this recipe, it will turn out to be very tasty and satisfying.

Required Ingredients:

• boiled beets - 4 pieces;
• vegetable fat - 50 ml;
• table salt - to taste;
• onions - 2 pieces;
• tomato paste - 30 grams;
• parsley greens - 1 bunch.

Cooking steps:

1. First, you should prepare the onion, remove the husk from it and chop it very finely with a knife.
2. Peeled and prepared beets are crushed with a grater.
3. Vegetable fat is poured into a pan and heated, after which chopped onions are placed in it, and the vegetable is fried until golden brown.
4. After that, beets are added to the onion and they continue to cook everything over very low heat for about five minutes, only after that the dish is covered with a lid and left to simmer for about ten minutes.
5. After the allotted period of time, several tablespoons of tomato paste are placed in the vegetable mass, everything is mixed and re-covered with a lid. Stew vegetables for ten minutes, add some spices and salt to taste.

When the caviar has cooled, chopped parsley is added to it.

The workpiece is sharp

This recipe for beetroot caviar is more suitable for those housewives who love spicy and delicious snacks for the winter. The composition will contain hot peppers, as well as bell peppers to balance the taste of the caviar.

Required Ingredients:

• boiled beets - 2 pieces;
• salad pepper - 2 pieces;
• table salt - to taste;
• hot chili pepper - 1 pod;
• onions - 2 pieces;
• tomato paste - 150 grams;
• lemon juice - 2 tablespoons;
• vegetable fat - 100 ml.

Cooking steps:

1. The boiled beets are crushed with a grater, you can not boil, but bake the root vegetable in foil, then it will be more useful.
2. Meanwhile, the onion heads are peeled and diced with a knife.
3. The bell peppers and hot vegetable are deseeded and then puréed with a blender.
4. A little vegetable fat is poured into a frying pan, after which white onions are sent there, fried for two minutes, and bell pepper is added to it. Fry the ingredients for five minutes.
5. After five minutes, put tomato paste and chopped beets into the vegetable mass. The mashed potatoes are stewed under the lid for about seven minutes, then salt is added to the blank to taste, lemon juice and hot pepper puree are added. Stew the composition for ten minutes over low heat.
6. The finished snack is removed from the heat and allowed to stand for a couple of hours. As soon as the caviar has cooled, it is placed in jars and the containers are sealed.

Carrot appetizer

This recipe is quite simple to execute, every housewife can cook beetroot caviar for the winter, even the first time. It is very tasty to add hot peppers to an appetizer, but if your home-grown people do not like hot snacks, then you can do without it in the recipe.

Required Ingredients:

• boiled beets - 2 kg;
• hot pepper - 1 piece;
• young garlic - 1 head;
• ground pepper - to taste;
• vinegar 9% - 70 ml;
• fresh carrots - 1 kg;
• fresh tomatoes - 750 grams;
• table salt - to taste;
• bay leaf - 2 pieces;
• white onions - 1 kg;
• spices and herbs to taste;
• granulated sugar - 3 tablespoons;
• vegetable fat - 300 ml.

Cooking steps:

1. To obtain a more uniform consistency, beets are chopped on a fine grater, and they also come with fresh carrots.
2. The husks are removed from the onion and cut into small cubes.
3. Fresh tomatoes and hot peppers are sent to a meat grinder or blender to get puree from vegetables.
4. Vegetable oil is heated in a frying pan, after which onions and carrots are sent to the container.
5. Fry the vegetable composition for several minutes. Immediately add tomato and hot pepper puree to the pan. Stir the composition and allow the mass to boil.
6. As soon as the vegetables begin to boil, beets are placed next to them and the container is covered with a lid. Stew the appetizer under a closed lid for about an hour and a half.
7. Only then add a little sugar, salt to taste, various spices and acetic acid.
8. Once the ingredients are dissolved, add chopped garlic to the snack. The finished workpiece is placed in jars and sealed with lids.

Caviar with semolina

Required Ingredients:

• boiled beets - 1 kg;
• vinegar essence - 15 ml;
• semolina - 1 glass;
• fresh tomatoes - 3 kg;
• onions - 1 kg;
• salt and sugar to taste;
• vegetable fat - 300 ml;
• carrots - 2 kg;
• spices and herbs to taste.

Cooking steps:

1. All vegetable ingredients are chopped with a meat grinder, mashed potatoes are placed in a saucepan, vegetable fat is poured there, salt and spices are added. Cook everything for two hours under the lid.
2. After that, carefully add semolina, cook for twenty minutes. Add acetic acid and add chopped garlic.
3. You do not need to sterilize the jars before closing this appetizer in them, since the caviar was cooked for two and a half hours.

It is recommended to add a little red ground pepper to the recipe to add spice to the workpiece.