Good afternoon.
I am often asked what sauces can be added to dishes if you stick to and avoid high-fat dressings like mayonnaise, for example.
So, adjika is a very good choice, especially if you like to add spice to your dishes.
But I want to make a reservation right away - this is not a classic adjika (it is also called Abkhazian), in which only garlic, salt and hot pepper are used. No, this is adjika in the form in which it was cooked by our grandmothers. Someone will say that this is satsibeli sauce, someone else will remember what fashionable name. But for most of us, it's still adjika.
Let's consider today several options for recipes, both classic from tomatoes, and with the addition of other ingredients - apples, bell peppers and horseradish.
This is a very simple recipe and all that is required of you is a little patience, since adjika needs to be boiled down for a long time.
There are enough ingredients for two liter cans.
All vegetables must be minced.
Tomatoes need preliminary cleaning - they need to cut off the stalks. Seeds and partitions must be removed from sweet peppers. The spicy has seeds. Remove the core from the apple.
All ingredients can be thrown into the meat grinder at the same time. There is no point in doing this separately, it will mix even better.
We take a deep frying pan, or, if you want to cook more, then a cauldron, put it on medium heat and put all our ingredients in it.
Stir the mixture periodically and wait for it to boil.
After boiling, reduce the heat to a minimum and continue to boil the adjika for another 40-60 minutes until almost all the liquid has evaporated.
The boiling time depends on how juicy and fleshy the tomatoes were.
Add salt at the end. Add 1 rounded teaspoon, stir, taste and add more if needed.
Now adjika can be laid out in banks. Note that the recipe does not use vinegar or citric acid. These are preservatives that are commonly used in preforms to prevent fermentation in rolled jars.
This time we will not take them, so as not to interrupt the original taste, but the process will need to be approached as responsibly as possible.
So, we lay out the boiling adjika in pre-sterilized jars.
To prevent the cans from bursting, they must be hot. Or you can put a metal knife under the can as a heat sink.
Now all that remains is to roll up or close the cans and leave them to cool upside down under the covers.
This recipe, unlike the classic one, has a mild and fresh taste. Here we will already take not one apple, but much more. You can use such adjika not only as a sauce, but also for preparing main meat dishes, soups and gravies.
The ingredients are designed for 6 liter cans.
As in the previous recipe, peel the vegetables, cut them into wedges and pass them with the whole bunch through a meat grinder. Except garlic. So that he can add flavor to adjika, we will add it almost at the very end.
For a spicier look, do not remove the seeds from the chili.
Pour the resulting mixture into a deep frying pan or cauldron and bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally. After boiling, reduce heat to low and cook for another 1 hour under the lid.
5 minutes before the end, add sugar, salt, vinegar and vegetable oil. And only at this stage we add garlic. Mix everything and cook.
Then, without removing the adjika from the fire, we pour it into sterilized jars.
Another way to prevent cans from bursting is to put metal spoons in them.
We close the jars and leave to cool upside down under the covers.
In this option, we will save time as much as possible and will not cook anything, we will use the ingredients raw. And also, for a more "pungent" taste, we will add horseradish to the tomato adjika.
You need to store such adjika only in the refrigerator.
From these ingredients, 3.5 liters of the finished product is obtained.
Cut the tomatoes and bell peppers into slices and pass through a meat grinder. We also send garlic cloves there.
Horseradish is much more difficult to grind. Due to its fibrous structure, the roots of horseradish wind up very quickly and clog the knives of the meat grinder.
It is most convenient to grind the horseradish root with a blender in a bowl with knives, adding a little tomatoes
But this is a rather important point. Take your time and do not fall asleep all at once. First, add and stir only half of the sugar and salt you cooked. And then suddenly it seems to you that the adjika turned out to be too sweet or, on the contrary, salty?
The plus is that the sauce is cold and you will immediately know if you added enough salt and sugar.
In general, take your time, create the taste that suits you.
Well, when everything is ready, pour adjika into sterilized jars.
You do not need to roll up the cans; it is enough to close them with plastic lids, which had previously been dipped in boiling water for a few seconds.
The beauty of this recipe is that it is immediately ready for use and you do not have to wait for winter to please yourself with delicious spicy adjika.
You need to store such a workpiece in the refrigerator for about six months.
In this recipe, we will only use tomatoes, garlic, and hot peppers for hotness. This is the most spicy adjika among those in the preparation of which tomatoes are used. Sometimes it is called "Armenian".
Ingredients for 3 liter cans
This cooking option is nothing new for you. Cut the tomatoes into slices and remove the stalks, cut off only the tails of the pepper.
We pass the tomatoes through a meat grinder, pour them into a saucepan, salt and mix.
Then we drive the garlic and pepper through a meat grinder, add to the pan and mix again.
If you eat adjika within a month or a month and a half, then you do not need to cook it. But then, in order to comply with the rules of the recipe, the adjika must ferment.
To do this, put it in an enamel pan, cover with gauze and put it on the balcony or windowsill (but not in the refrigerator) for 15 days. Stir the adjika once a day.
In two weeks, Armenian-style spicy adjika will be ready and kept in the refrigerator.
When you twist and salt the tomatoes, place them over medium heat and bring to a boil. Then reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes to remove some of the moisture.
Then add the pepper and garlic, stir and cook for another 5 minutes.
After that, hot adjika can be poured into sterilized jars and closed with lids.
And finally, I offer you a recipe that can be called a classic adjika for the winter. True, there are no tomatoes in it anymore. Bulgarian pepper is used here. But, I'll tell you a secret, if you take tomatoes instead, then the final taste will not change.
Enough ingredients for 5 0.5l cans
As you may have guessed, we need to twist all the ingredients in a meat grinder, having previously cleaned them.
Take only red pepper so that the adjika has the "correct" color
We send the twisted vegetables to the pan, add salt, sugar and pour in sunflower oil.
Put the saucepan over medium heat and bring the mixture to a boil. After boiling, reduce the heat to a minimum and cook for another 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
After 30 minutes, the pan can be removed from the heat and the hot adjika can be laid out in pre-sterilized jars.
As you can see, there are no difficulties in preparing adjika for the winter. All it takes is a little patience.
I hope that the article was useful for you and that you have chosen for yourself the recipe that you liked.
Thank you for the attention.
Many recipes for hot spices for the winter can be combined under the general name "adjika", and the best recipes will be presented to your attention today. The recipe for the winter adjika with cooking from tomatoes, garlic and pepper will be considered basic.
Homemade adjika is beneficial in that its severity and composition of ingredients can be adjusted by ourselves, cooked for the winter from tomato and hot pepper, garlic, from tomato, garlic and plum, from tomato and zucchini, add a variety of vegetables, fruits, spices and spices to the recipe , make it spicy, pungent or sweet. Adjika is a wonderful "testing ground" for making your culinary fantasies come true.
Today we will consider the recipes for cooking adjika by the cooking method, because heat treatment guarantees long-term preservation of the finished product until the new harvesting season.
All preliminary preparation in each recipe includes washing greens and vegetables, removing seeds, pits, stalks, peeling, chopping in any convenient way - slicing, scrolling through a meat grinder, grating or using a blender.
All glass containers for canning must be thoroughly washed and sterilized.
I will share with you a recipe on how to cook adjika at home for the winter with tomato boiling.
Seasoning ingredients:
Place the tomatoes in a saucepan, pour in some water and put on medium heat to soften.
The basic adjika is ready. You can store the seasoning even at room temperature, and in a cellar it will stand for several years without spoilage.
Adjika from tomato and garlic with apples is spicy, boiled for the winter is a bit similar to the base one, but there is no sweet pepper in its recipe, apples are added to the composition, which improve the consistency and taste of the finished product.
Seasoning ingredients:
Pour oil into the bottom of a thick-walled saucepan.
This wonderful "thermonuclear" seasoning will be appreciated by all your household and guests.
Adjika for the winter with cooking from tomatoes, peppers, apples, carrots and garlic is one of the richest seasonings in taste, you will appreciate it.
Just as it is impossible to spoil porridge with butter, just as not to spoil the spicy seasoning with horseradish. Horseradish recipes are quite popular, moreover, such a seasoning is often prepared without cooking, and, accordingly, it is stored less, and only in the refrigerator. Our simple horseradish seasoning recipe involves cooking.
Seasoning ingredients:
Pour oil into a thick-walled saucepan and place the vegetable mixture, salt, sugar. Bring the mixture over high heat until boiling, then reduce the heat and cook the seasoning for 40 minutes. Pour in vinegar, mix well and spread hot in clean jars, seal. Turn the cans over, wrap them up, let them cool.
Add to the piggy bank of tips: Trying to diversify the recipe for adjika for the winter with cooking from tomatoes, with garlic and pepper, boldly use a wide variety of products - apple, plum, pear, quince puree, available herbs, spices, cook spices from gooseberries, carrots, bell pepper , pumpkin, rhubarb, cherry plum, with the addition of horseradish roots, katran, parsley, celery, with vinegar and citric acid.
Tomatoes are the basis of any adjika at home; use the most fleshy and ripe fruits with a thin skin.
It is most convenient to prepare a seasoning from 5 kg of tomatoes, as a base, along with the rest of the additives, you will have a sufficient number of seasoning jars for the whole winter.
How to cook the simplest spicy tomato adjika, hot pepper, horseradish and garlic? There is a wonderful old recipe for hot seasoning for the winter - "Ogonyok". The recipe for a fiery snack for the winter will allow you to experience the brightest taste sensations throughout the cold season.
Seasoning ingredients:
Put all the chopped ingredients in a saucepan, add salt and sugar and put on medium heat, boil for one hour, pack the hot seasoning in jars, seal with lids, turn over, wrap and wait until it cools. Our fiery snack is ready!
Do you want to cook something exquisite and bright in taste? It's time to learn how to cook adjika with prunes. Prunes give both sweetness and a pleasant texture.
Seasoning ingredients:
Put the plums in a saucepan, pour in a little water and boil until softened.
Our amazing seasoning is ready, all you have to do is get some game, bake it over a fire and serve it with adjika!
What could be better than a hot seasoning for a meat dish against the autumn-winter blues? Let's try a classic hot seasoning recipe for the winter.
Seasoning ingredients:
Place the chopped peppers (sweet and hot) in a saucepan, add tomato paste to it, add sugar, salt, and cook over medium heat for one hour. You need to cook the seasoning while stirring so that it does not burn. At the end of cooking, add vinegar, bring to a boil again and pack in jars. Let's roll up the jars with lids, turn them over, wrap them up, wait for them to cool. Our culinary bomb is ready! Invite your friends to the tasting.
When there is such an assistant for the hostess in the house as a multicooker, you can cook a variety of seasonings for the winter, bragging about recipes in front of your friends. The recipe for a multicooker is simple in execution, the finished adjika turns out to have a bright rich taste, it is stored for a long time, but it is eaten very quickly if you open the jar. How to cook spicy adjika for the winter in a slow cooker with carrots and onions - read and try in practice.
Seasoning ingredients:
Pour the vegetable mixture into the multicooker bowl, set the “stewing” mode and set the time to 2 hours. Then add oil, salt, vinegar, sugar, mix the mixture and simmer for another 10 minutes, put it in the jars, seal with lids, turn over the jars, heat them, wait until they cool. Even the photo of this seasoning is drooling!
In order to create a seasoning with a new taste, you need to use different vegetables as a base, for example, zucchini, they give a good consistency to the product, a neutral taste, which can already be enriched at will - spices or herbs, and now we will get acquainted with such a recipe, we will learn how to make an almost dietary version of adjika.
Seasoning ingredients:
Pour oil into a saucepan, put tomato puree, chopped vegetables and cook over medium heat for 2 hours. Stir the boiling vegetable mixture so that it does not burn. 20 minutes before the end of the cooking process, add salt, sugar, lemon, cook and pack hot in jars, seal with lids, turn upside down, wrap and let cool completely. This seasoning turns out to be very tasty, aromatic, not too spicy, and of pleasant thickness.
This technique provides additional heat treatment, in addition, the consistency of the finished product is improved.
By tradition, for a more complete disclosure of the topic, you can get acquainted with the video of the adzhika preparation process, with a photo of the finished product, understand for yourself all the intricacies of classic recipes from tomatoes, with prunes, and tomato paste, and pepper, with herbs. Having tested in practice the recipe for adjika from tomatoes with garlic and pepper for the winter with cooking, you can move on to other options for this preparation.
Recipes for the most delicious homemade adjika:
Today we'll talk about a wonderful spicy snack, which is usually smeared on a piece of fresh fragrant bread, Her Majesty the Queen on our table, incomparable adjika. It is good to consume this queen even though a bite with hot soup, even with meat on coals ... she will go with any savory dish with a bang!
The benefits of adjika are undoubtedly great, not only does it preserve the entire set of vitamins and trace elements that make up the products, its components, and in general it has a beneficial effect on increasing metabolism, improves appetite and has some antiviral effect.
Well, at first the simplest recipes and gradually complicating them.
The recipe is classic, traditional, original. The easiest to prepare, literally ten minutes.
Products:
Clean, wash, dry everything. Scroll through a meat grinder, salt, mix and scroll a few more times to get a homogeneous paste. Better yet, use a food processor with a sharp knife and chop everything into dust.
Let it infuse on the kitchen table for a couple of days. Divide into jars or food containers and refrigerate.
The invention is already Russian culinary experts. People call it differently - hrenoder, gorloder, crap. Simple and quick to prepare, a set of products for her in August in every garden is a shaft. Keeps perfectly in the refrigerator all winter.
Here, in working with horseradish, a meat grinder is preferable than a food processor, the texture of horseradish is too viscous.
So, everything is washed, cleaned, dried. We turn it through a meat grinder and mix well. When we skip horseradish, it is better to put a cellophane bag on the meat grinder and tie it at the exit neck - it will not pinch the eyes. Or throw all the components interspersed, also to reduce the ingress of horseradish vapors into the air.
Salt, mix thoroughly until the salt is completely dissolved.
We place them in sterile dry jars and put them in a refrigerator or cellar.
It goes well with any first or second course as an addition to bread on cold winter evenings.
Well, very fast and delicious! Guests and family will appreciate the table perfectly.
Ingredients:
We do it step by step:
It will be delicious at the table!
Open a jar of such a burning blank on a winter day and remember those summer times with a barbecue.
This recipe will be more difficult and more time consuming, but the result will be worth it, take my word for it. In addition, such a blank can be stored in the cellar for years, if necessary.
The fact is that, unlike the previous ones, we will cook this adjika.
Now cooking:
This option gives scope to your imagination. You can experiment on the basis of this recipe as you like, adding any vegetables and even fruits to it during cooking - everything will be delicious.
Another unusual recipe, its other name is adjika with zucchini in Belarusian.
The preparation is the simplest:
The taste of this adjika turns out to be delicate, sweet with a piquant sourness, not very spicy.
The so-called bitter. The dish for real men is very spicy!
Wash, peel, dry all vegetables. Scroll through a meat grinder or chop in a food processor. Put in a saucepan, add oil and salt. Simmer for about an hour over low heat, stirring occasionally. Place in sterile jars and seal. Cool under a fur coat.
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But with eggplant! Somewhat exotic, but tasty - lick your fingers!
You will need:
Chop all vegetables in a food processor. Eggplants can be cut into small cubes for added refinement. Put in a large brazier, salt, mix with sugar, butter and simmer over low heat for about 50 minutes.
Add honey and stir thoroughly. Add finely chopped fresh herbs, boil for a couple of minutes and add vinegar. Stir and let it brew for a few minutes. Put in sterile jars, put on the lid and cool under a fur coat.
Honey will add a special charm to the dish!
This is also a somewhat exotic and unusually tasty recipe.
Products:
Preparation:
Very tasty and aromatic!
But at the same time it is very unusual, because with plums or cherry plum, whoever likes what!
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Bon Appetit!
Delicious adjika with carrots for the winter
Carrots alone will be a bit boring, so let's add pumpkins to it too! And we will have a completely unique recipe. It is a pity that it is not stored for a long time, so it is better to make a half portion to eat quickly!
Products:
Preparation:
Adjika - the word itself is of Abkhaz origin and means, in fact, bread and salt, a welcome meal when meeting dear guests. In the old days, her wife, Caucasian horsemen, rubbed on a stone, investing a lot of time and effort into this simple occupation. But you and I are modern and advanced people, so we will not kill ourselves like that. There are combines, blenders, meat grinders in our kitchens - so let them twist, tinder, and crumple, and we will keep an eye on them!
Initially, it was a pasty salty mass of red color, which includes various components, red hot peppers and garlic, coriander and blue fenugreek ... Do not be afraid of blue fenugreek, this is the cleverly called utskho-suneli, it is almost always a part of all of us well famous hops-suneli.
However, over time, people learned to add a lot of other healthy and nutritious vegetables and even fruits with nuts to adjika, made it less salty and spicy, quite suitable for our inexperienced European stomach.
The color has also changed, now they are preparing green adjika from green pepper. It is very convenient to use it in a mixture with sour cream or mayonnaise for making various sauces and as a seasoning for soups.
Immediately here I will tell you some general rules for preparing adjika, so as not to repeat themselves in each recipe, and I will highlight them in italics:
Well, perhaps that's all about adjika, a delicious, aromatic and varied seasoning that takes its place of honor on my table. Hopefully on yours now too!
It is always harvested and in large quantities. We must thank Caucasian cuisine for adjika. Each nationality, of course, has its own similar product. And such products are called differently.
We basically used to call this dish - a spicy appetizer. In the villages, they called it - Gorloder. But at present, Caucasian cuisine has become very common, and therefore many began to call this spicy snack - adjika. And adjika is an Abkhaz word, in direct translation it means salt.
There are many legends about how adjika became adjika. they are all beautiful, but I think that everything is much simpler. As an example, Russians came up with the idea of putting tomatoes in adjika, and they even make adjika without pepper. There are other unconventional recipes - adjika with zucchini, plums, apples, or with the addition of gooseberries.
Here we will look at several different, including original, recipes for preparing this delicious seasoning.
This seasoning serves as an excellent appetizer with meat, poultry, fish, cheese, it is good with almost any product. Even just with bread. Cooking.
It turns out about 2.5 liters of ready-made seasoning
1. Wash all the vegetables and let them dry. We will weigh the vegetables when they are peeled and cut.
2. Scroll the tomatoes in a meat grinder and pour into a deep cooking dish. The peels can be removed from tomatoes, we usually do not peel off, for this recipe. Add carrots, also rolled in a meat grinder, to the tomatoes.
3. We send there the rolled sweet peppers, apples, rolled with hot peppers.
4. Add salt and sugar. Pour in vegetable oil. Mix everything well. We got a pretty thick vegetable mass.
5. Put a saucepan with this mass on the stove and bring to a boil over low heat.
6. Cook, stirring occasionally until the desired consistency. Cooking usually takes 2-3 hours. Add chopped garlic 15 minutes before cooking. Stir and taste what is missing. If adjika seemed to you not very spicy, at this moment you can add red ground hot pepper, to taste.
7. About a couple of minutes until tender, pour in the vinegar. Bring to a boil and remove from heat.
8. Pour hot adjika into pre-sterilized jars.
We sterilize jars usually in the oven.
Wash cans with soda or mustard, without using chemicals. We put them in a cold oven. We turn on the temperature 120 ° -130 °. After the temperature reaches the set one, we warm it up for another 5-7 minutes. We turn off the oven, open the door and leave the jars like that until we need them. It means an hour and a half, and not in a day. They should be dry.
Pour boiling water over the lids and keep them for 5-7 minutes.
9. The jars are hermetically closed with the lids you have. It can be metal, which must be rolled up with a special machine, or now fashionable and really comfortable screw. Which we just twist with our hands.
10. Immediately turn the cans over. As a reminder, do not place cans directly on the table. Place a towel or wooden board. The table can be cold for hot cans and they can burst.
We wrap the jars with towels and let them cool completely in this form.
We store the jars in a cool place. But I think that such a workpiece can be stored at room temperature.
Bon Appetit!
Output: 3 liters of adjika
You probably noticed that all our vegetables are red. And sweet peppers, and tomatoes, and hot peppers. So the finished adjika will be more beautiful.
When you buy vegetables (well, if your own. From the garden, it's even better), take a little more. Not 2 kg, but 2.2 kg. Because when you clean them, there will be less of them, and we need the amount indicated in the ingredients. We weigh everything that has already been cleaned.
1. At the bitter pepper, cut off the stalk. Leave the seeds inside. They give a special taste to this spicy appetizer, and spice too. Those who do not like spicy or cannot eat it can remove the seeds.
2. Peel the garlic. We got it 200 g, which is about 4 heads of garlic.
3. To make the tomatoes peel easily, boil the water. We make a cross-shaped cut on the tomatoes and put them in boiling water for 2-3 minutes. We take it out, you can dip it in cold water or put it under the tap, so as not to burn yourself, when we remove the skin and after that, the skin can be removed very easily.
4. Remove the stalk from tomatoes and cut into 2-4 pieces. We also remove the stalk of sweet peppers, but unlike bitter peppers, we also remove the seeds and white veins inside. Cut the peppers into halves.
5. Now we need to pass all the prepared vegetables through a meat grinder. Since they are fully prepared with us, it will be easy, simple and quick to do this.
6. We ran everything through a meat grinder, add salt, sugar and vegetable oil and mix everything well.
7. Put the vegetable mixture on fire and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and cook for another 30 minutes. Do not forget to stir periodically so that nothing burns with us.
Pour water into a small saucepan, bring to a boil and when the water boils, put a pre-washed well-washed jar a little obliquely into boiling water, neck down and hold for about 1 minute.
This method can be used when you need to do it quickly. But it is better not to rush and sterilize in the way described in the previous recipe.
8. Pour the boiling adjika into sterilized jars. Close immediately with sterilized lids and roll up.
9. We turn over the rolled up jars with the lids down and put them immediately on the towel. We check if they are leaking somewhere. We close the jars with towels or a blanket and leave it until it cools completely. Then we send it to a permanent storage location.
Adjika for the winter turned out to be beautiful, fragrant, thick, rich. Of course, we immediately set aside a part, did not preserve it, but served it on the table.
Without waiting for winter, I want to open another jar.
Bon Appetit!
5 cans of 400 g.
1. Prepare all vegetables. Wash, dry.
2. In tomatoes, cut out the stalk and cut the tomatoes into 2-4 pieces. Cut the apples into several pieces, depending on the size, so that they fit into the meat grinder. We cut out the seeds, along with the bed. We did not peel the apples. If you know what kind of apples you have, you can also not peel, but if you bought them in a store, it is better to peel.
3. Cut the sweet pepper in half, if you want into 4 parts, again, so that it is convenient to put it in a meat grinder, remove the stalk and seeds with veins. We do not clean the red hot pepper inside, just cut off the tip with the stalk. If you do not like spicy, then remove the seeds too.
4. Cut the onion into 3-4 parts and pass all the vegetables through a meat grinder.
5. Pour sugar into the scrolled vegetables, pour vinegar, pour in vegetable oil. Add a little ground allspice, as well as oregano and basil.
6. Put all this vegetable mixture in a saucepan in which we will cook. It is desirable that the pan has a thick bottom.
7. Pour in a tablespoon without top of the salt, mix and place on the stove.
8. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to minimum, cover and cook for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
9. At the end of cooking, lay out the adjika in the jars.
10. We twist the jars and turn the lids down. Cover with something warm and let cool completely.
Our original, fragrant, spiced adjika is ready for the winter.
Bon Appetit!