The famous Uncle Bence sauce was the first herald of the thaw during perestroika times. As soon as the legendary "uncle" was not used, he had few competitors. For canning, the sauce was suitable only in the volumes of preparations of post-Soviet housewives, accustomed to a total deficit, and therefore gaining incredible ingenuity, was inferior to a significant extent. So there was a replacement for the sauce: the recipe for Ankle Bens salad for the winter - the preparation is not so imported, but that is why it is no less tasty and wonderful.

Ankle Bens salad from zucchini for the winter

Initial products for preparing salad and their proportions:

• 3 kilograms of very ripe tomatoes, can be slightly crushed;
• 1 kg of zucchini;
• half a kilo of carrots;
• one kilogram of sweet peppers of different colors;
• 2 large spoons of table salt;
• 200 grams of granulated sugar;
• 300 grams of refined vegetable oil;
• a bunch of parsley leaves;
• 2 garlic heads;
• 2 large spoons of apple cider vinegar.

Technological process and features of the preparation of the Uncle Bens sauce:

1. Rinse the tomatoes, remove the spoiled areas and "butts", cut into small pieces.
2. Grind the tomatoes in a meat grinder or food processor.
3. Pour the resulting tomato puree into a cooking bowl, put on fire.
4. Stewing time for tomato puree is a third of an hour.
5. While the base is cooking, rinse and peel the peppers and carrots.
6. Cut the peppers into thin strips, grate the carrots on a coarse grater.
7. Add prepared vegetables to tomato base and simmer for another 20 minutes.
8. Peel the garlic, chop with a knife or squeeze through a press.
9. Rinse parsley thoroughly under running water, finely chop.
10. Add salt, garlic, herbs, sugar, vegetable oil to stewed vegetables in tomato sauce.
11. After five minutes, pour in the prescribed amount of vinegar, boil for another five minutes and put the salad in sterilized dry jars.
12. Turn over the finished sauce, insulate, cool.

Ankle Bence salad with eggplant

Recipe for preparing for the winter "Uncle Bens" with eggplant:

• 5 liters of tomato juice;
• 1 kg eggplant;
• one kilogram of sweet peppers of various colors for visual effect;
• one kilogram of carrots;
• 2 heads of garlic;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• 3 tablespoons vinegar 9%;
• 2 tablespoons of table salt;
• one glass of refined vegetable oil;
• 5 peas of allspice;
• 3 bay leaves.

According to this recipe, the expected yield of the finished product is six 700 gram jars.

The process of preparing Uncle Bens salad for the winter:

1. Wash the blue ones, cut into cubes without removing the top skin.
2. Cover the eggplants with salt, set aside for half an hour.
3. Rinse the eggplants under running water, lay them on a towel.
4. Wash carrots, peel and grate on a coarse grater.
5. Rinse the peppers, remove seeds and stalks, chop into cubes of the same size as the eggplant.
6. Peel and squeeze the garlic through a press.
7. Boil tomato juice, pour oil into it, add spices, salt and sugar according to the recipe.
8. Bring the base to a boil, add grated carrots to the sauce.
9. After a quarter of an hour, add prepared eggplant and pepper to the saucepan.
10. After another fifteen minutes, add garlic and vinegar to the vegetables.
11. Bring the salad to a boil, put in sterilized hot jars.
12. Roll up immediately.

Uncle Bens Zucchini Salad

Hello my dear readers and guests of my culinary blog. I continue to tell my recipes for conservation. I regularly close this canned zucchini salad for the winter every year, but just recently found out that it is called "Uncle Bens". Where this name comes from, I can only assume that during the restructuring, imported ketchup (tomato sauce) "Uncle Ben's" appeared on store shelves. Most likely, he figured in the composition, but later he disappeared from the sale, and we continue to prepare our favorite zucchini salad, but with tomato paste.

By the way, Ankle Bens salad is prepared with both zucchini (squash Ankle Bens) and eggplant (eggplant).

Uncle Bens Zucchini Salad Recipe

• Zucchini - 2 kg
• Onions - 200 g
• Sweet pepper - 5-6 pcs.
• Tomatoes - 1 kg
• Vegetable oil - 1 glass (200ml)
• Sugar - 1 glass (200ml)
• Salt - 1 table. spoon
• Tomato paste - 200 g
• Water - 1 l
• Vinegar 9% - 100 ml

Prepare jars in advance, wash and sterilize. Many housewives sterilize jars in the oven, in the microwave, and I sterilize the old fashioned way over steam.

From this amount of products, you will get about 4.5 liters of ready-made salad.

Dissolve tomato paste in 1 liter of water. (I think you can substitute tomato juice or chopped tomatoes in the same amount.)

Then carefully wash, peel all the vegetables and chop. How to cut into cubes or strips, decide for yourself. I make all the slices for the Ankle Bens zucchini salad, I like it better. If you decide to dice, then dice all the vegetables.

I cut the zucchini in half lengthwise and again in half lengthwise, then it is easy to cut into equal pieces.

I cut the onion into strips,

sweet pepper stripes.

Cut the tomatoes into slices as for a regular salad.

Bring the tomato solution to a boil, add all prepared vegetables, add spices (sugar, salt) and pour in vegetable oil.

Stir and cook for 20 minutes. The cooking time is always counted from the beginning of the boil. At the end of cooking, add vinegar and stir.

Arrange the prepared salad in sterile jars and roll up.

Turn the lids down and wrap with a blanket.

The next day, you can hide it in the pantry, and in winter you can feast on it, serve as an appetizer or as a side dish.

Bon Appetit! If something is not clear, ask in the comments.

Cooking recipe uncle bens from tomato for the winter

cooking method

Tomatoes in a blender (meat grinder), carrots on a large grater, chop the onion or add 100 g of salt in a blender coarsely and leave for 10-12 hours.

Boil the marinade and pour the main composition and cook for 1 hour in jars, lay out hot.

It turns out like this Uncle Bence at home.

About the brand Uncle Ben`s

The history of the Uncle Ben`s brand began in 1943, when the American company Converted Rice Inc. for the first time put on the market cooked rice under that name. As a result, since the 50s of the last century, Uncle Ben`s rice has become the best-selling rice in the United States. Not surprisingly, the successful Converted Rice was subsequently bought by the world's largest food manufacturer, Mars.

The Uncle Ben`s line includes sweet and sour sauces with and without vegetables, barbecue sauce, including smoked flavors, curry and chili sauces, as well as Mexican, Sichuan and Thai sauces.

In Russia, the Uncle Ben`s brand became especially popular in the 90s, when there was massive advertising of the brand on television. The black "Uncle Ben" has even become a popular hero of the folklore.

Uncle Ben's products are manufactured in Russia at the Mars LLC factory in Lukhovitsy.

Shops for sale
We would like to buy Uncle Ben`s sauce for a restaurant, but we cannot find it in Kazakhstan. Are there retail outlets? Where can we buy in Kazakhstan?

Uncle bens
Where can I get it?

where is the ketchup
they had such delicious ketchup and not where not why?

variety of sauces
Sauces from "Uncle Bens" have been especially fond of me for a long time. They greatly complement any product on the table. It's also fast and delicious! There are different types of sauces, but I like sweet Thai chili more. And on the label, a kind black uncle invites you to buy it always;)

familiar to all of us
Previously, the "Uncle Ben`s" brand was a novelty for me from foreign countries. It seemed to be something unusual and unattainable. Then we used it on holidays as a delicacy. Nowadays, rice or sauce is rarely found.

When writing a review, try to describe

The hostess invented the "Uncle Bens" squash preparation in the 90s. Then, overseas products suddenly appeared on the store shelves that had recently been empty, including a squash-tomato sauce called “Uncle Ben’s”. Colorful jars excited the minds. Advertising on TV "added fuel to the fire", which in those years was also a "curiosity". Many dreamed of trying a foreign product. Prices for the sauce were "biting", so not everyone could afford the tasting. But "the need for invention is cunning": inventive housewives invented their own "Uncle Bens" - pieces of vegetables in a tender tomato sauce. The main ingredient was zucchini - tasty and inexpensive. A simple recipe immediately "went to the masses": an analogue of the famous sauce began to be prepared for the winter in almost every family.

In modern stores you can find original "Uncle Ben's" products, now they are affordable. But times have changed, the hype around sauces is a thing of the past. But the hostesses continue to make blanks under the same name - the recipe turned out to be so successful.

The hostess calls the Uncle Bens blank by different names - salad, appetizer, sauce, lecho. It is interesting that whatever you call it - everything is correct. "Affinity" with lecho is due to a similar set of ingredients. Components, without which it is impossible to imagine lecho, are added to the zucchini - sweet peppers, onions, tomatoes. "Uncle Bens" can be served as an independent dish (appetizer or salad) or as a sauce for any side dish, meat and even fish.

Selection of ingredients

Where does the preparation of blanks begin? With the "collection" of ingredients. The most delicious and healthy canning is obtained from homemade vegetables. In such fruits there is no chemistry, they are grown in natural conditions without the use of growth stimulants. But not everyone has vegetable gardens or grandmothers who are ready to supply them with natural products. Many housewives have to buy ingredients from the market or the supermarket to prepare the Ankle Bens for the winter.

Getting ready to make a purchase? Remember that you can only make a delicious salad with vegetables that are not overripe. Young zucchini have a thin rind and soft seeds, making the dish tender. The "season" of zucchini is the middle of summer, but there are varieties that bear fruit before the first frost. You need to focus on seasonality, but remember that this is a relative concept. Choose zucchini by appearance and you won't go wrong.

• The size. For preservation, you need to buy medium-sized zucchini, a maximum of 15-20 cm in length. If the zucchini is too large, it is overripe and can spoil the taste of the salad.
• Appearance. Dents and indentations in the zucchini indicate that vegetables have long been harvested and stored incorrectly. It is not worth using such zucchini for conservation, even if the markdown attracts: they have long lost their usefulness.
• Peel. Evaluate the skins of the vegetables. In not overripe zucchini, it is thin. A thick skin may not only indicate the "age" of the vegetables, but also signal that the zucchini has been treated with chemicals. Let the thick-skinned vegetables stay in the store - health is more important.
• Colour. An even color is one of the criteria for choosing zucchini for canning. Brown and yellow spots warn of the beginning of the process of rotting inside the vegetable. You can't eat such zucchini anymore.

If you are not sure about the quality of purchased vegetables, then soak them for an hour in cool water, and then proceed directly to cooking. This little trick will help to "remove" harmful chemical compounds if vegetables are "stuffed" with them.

"Ankle Bens" from zucchini for the winter: recipe variations

The hostesses prepare the Ankle Bens squash salad in different ways. Vegetables (carrots, sweet and bitter peppers, onions) and herbs are added to the main ingredient. Vegetables can be cut at will, but similarly shaped pieces (for example, sticks / squares) look more aesthetically pleasing.

To get the perfect flavor, you need to pay attention to the dressing. It is made from tomatoes or tomato paste and spices are added. You can experiment with spices: add curry, dried herbs, chili. Thanks to this, the familiar taste will take on new shades. It is up to the hostess to make a delicate sauce or spicy snack.

But you should not experiment with vinegar: increase its amount - it will be sour. Always pay attention to what kind of vinegar is indicated in the recipe and how many percent is indicated on the bottle. If you miss this moment - instead of the vaunted taste, you will get sheer disappointment.

With diseases of the liver, kidneys and diseases of the cardiovascular system, you should not get involved in conservation. The high content of sugar, salt and acetic acid in the rolls can provoke an exacerbation of the pathology.

Classical

Peculiarities. Ankle Bens of zucchini with tomatoes is prepared for the winter to diversify the menu in the season when there are no fresh vegetables. The dish turns out to be tasty, aromatic and reminiscent of summer. The preparation is called a salad, but it is rather a thick sauce in which pieces of vegetables are "hidden". Garlic gives a moderate "spice", but you can exclude it from the recipe if you like preservation with a delicate taste. The salad can be served with all meals. If you add dried Provencal herbs during cooking, it will make an excellent sauce for pasta. From the specified amount of ingredients, 4.5 liters of salad are obtained.

You will need:

• medium-sized zucchini - 2 kg;
• fleshy red tomatoes - 2.5 kg;
• sweet pepper - 1 kg;
• garlic - head;
• sugar - faceted glass;
• salt - two tablespoons with a slide;
• vegetable oil - 200 ml;
• vinegar (9%) - 50 ml.

Cooking steps

1. Cut the tomatoes into quarters. Twist them with a meat grinder or use a blender.
2. Cut the courgettes and peppers into medium cubes.
3. Mix tomato puree with butter, sugar, salt. Squeeze the garlic here with a press.
4. Place the sliced ​​zucchini in a large saucepan and pour over the cooked red sauce.
5. Simmer over low heat for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
6. Add chopped peppers. Continue simmering for another 20 minutes.
7. Pour in the vinegar and hold the salad on the stove for five minutes.
8. Divide the vegetable mass into sterilized jars. Twist.

Budget

Peculiarities. Ankle Bens from zucchini with tomato paste for the winter should be prepared for those who are looking for a budget version of the legendary salad. Pasta is cheaper than tomatoes, which are the main ingredient in the "classic". The pronounced zucchini-tomato taste will remind many of childhood: in the 90s, every second housewife prepared the Ankle Bens zucchini snack for the winter with the addition of pasta. Sauce with a slight "spicy" flavor is ideal for pasta, but also good as an independent dish. Following this recipe, you can prepare about 4.5 liters of canning.

You will need:

• medium zucchini - 2 kg;
• large onions - 12 onions;
• sweet pepper - five pieces;
• garlic - five cloves;
• sunflower oil (preferably refined) - faceted glass;
• purchased tomato paste - 200 g;
• sugar - a glass;
• salt - a full "heaped" tablespoon;
• vinegar (9%) - 60 ml;
• cold water - liter.

Cooking steps

1. Prepare vegetable components: peel, chop coarsely (you can in any form).
2. Dilute purchased paste with water. Add butter, sugar, salt here. Bring the resulting mixture to a boil.
3. Dip the sliced ​​courgettes into the cooked red sauce. Wait for a boil, boil for ten minutes.
4. Add the rest of the vegetables. Leave to simmer for ten minutes.
5. Mix chopped garlic with 9% vinegar. Add the "preservative" to the pan to the rest of the ingredients. After that, keep the salad on the stove for ten minutes.
6. Distribute in sterilized containers, roll up.

If you bought soft zucchini, then check if there are any marks on them when pressed. Remain - it is not worth preserving them, vegetables disappear. Soft zucchini that do not lose their shape when pressed can be used for blanks, but with the condition that you add twice as much vinegar as according to the recipe.

Sweet and sour

Peculiarities. If you like sweet and sour sauces, make Ankle Bens from zucchini with carrots, and add the purchased Krasnodar sauce to the dressing. The dish should have a thick consistency. If you take grated zucchini, and not chopped, then you will be able to prepare a sauce that resembles a store sauce in structure. It can be served with any side dish or with a main course of vegetables, sea or river fish, any meat. Especially good "sounds" sweet and sour taste in tandem with poultry. The amount of ingredients is calculated for 6 liters of salad.

You will need:

• thin-skinned zucchini - 2 kg;
• large tomatoes - 1 kg;
• onions - 1 kg;
• sweet pepper - 600 g;
• large carrots - 500 g;
• sunflower oil - 250 ml;
• Krasnodar sauce - half-liter jar;
• vinegar (9%) - 70 ml;
• table salt - four tablespoons;
• sugar - a glass;
• citric acid - one teaspoon;
• curry - three teaspoons;
• water - 600 ml.

Cooking steps

1. Chop the zucchini into cubes, the onions in half rings, chop the pepper into strips, the tomatoes - arbitrarily.
2. Grate the carrots (it is better to use a coarse grater).
3. Boil water. Add Krasnodar sauce, butter, granulated sugar, spices to the boiling water. Boil the mixture for five minutes.
4. Add zucchini to tomato dressing. Simmer for a minimum of 12 minutes.
5. Pour the rest of the vegetables into the pan. Leave to simmer for ten minutes.
6. Add carrots. Boil for five minutes.
7. Pour in the tomatoes. Boil off excess liquid. When the consistency becomes thick enough, add "preservatives" - vinegar and "lemon". Hold on the stove for five minutes.
8. Distribute in sterilized containers. Tighten with lids.

The "zest" of the salad is added by the "Krasnodar" sauce. It is enriched with a whole bunch of spices - cloves, allspice, nutmeg. Thanks to the tomato sauce, the spicy bouquet is also felt in the "uncle bens". An obligatory ingredient in Krasnodarskiy is apples. Hence the sourness.

For lovers of "spicy"

Peculiarities. This recipe for "Ankle-bens" from zucchini for the winter should be adopted by lovers of "spicy". Garlic is present in many recipes, but such a sauce cannot be called spicy in the literal sense of the word - rather, spicy. If you cook "Uncle Bens" from zucchini with the addition of chili, then fans of "fire in the mouth" will simply be delighted. You can adjust the pungency to your taste. Sweet and sour and at the same time spicy sauce will be appreciated by gourmets. It goes well with meat, but vegetarian dishes with spicy sauce will "play" in a new way. From the amount of ingredients specified in the recipe, you can prepare 4 liters of the blank.

You will need:

• young zucchini - 1 kg;
• red tomatoes - the same amount;
• bulgarian pepper (large) - seven pieces;
• medium-sized onion - five onions;
• garlic - ten cloves;
• sunflower oil - 1.5 cups;
• sugar - according to the proportions of butter;
• salt - two tablespoons;
• curry - a teaspoon;
• vinegar (9%) - 100 ml;
• chili - two peppers.

Cooking steps

1. Chop the washed zucchini into small squares, chop the onions into thin half rings.
2. Peel peppers (sweet and chili) from seeds, cut into strips.
3. Make cross-shaped cuts at the base of the tomatoes. Dip the tomatoes in boiling water for two minutes, then transfer them with a slotted spoon to cold water, leave for a minute. Remove the skin, cut the pulp into cubes.
4. Mix refined oil, sugar, spices, vinegar. Wait until it boils.
5. Add slices of zucchini to the prepared marinade. Boil for ten minutes.
6. Add pepper, onion half rings, boil for about ten minutes.
7. Add chopped tomato pulp, simmer for ten minutes.
8. Add garlic. Better to pass it through a press, you can finely chop it up. Put out two minutes. The salad is ready, you just have to roll it up.

Young zucchini in blanks is used directly with the skin and seeds. If you decide to "process" old vegetables, then the peel must be cut off, and the "insides" must be cleaned. If you don’t do this, the taste of the preparation will disappoint.

Rice salad

Peculiarities. Canning with zucchini and rice will help out the hostess when households ask for a snack and the refrigerator is empty. The salad is served both as an independent dish and as a side dish for any meat. From the amount of ingredients indicated in the recipe, 4 liters of preservation are obtained.

You will need:

• medium-sized zucchini - 2 kg;
• onions - 1 kg;
• carrots - the same amount;
• ripe tomatoes - 700 g;
• rice - 400 g;
• garlic - five cloves;
• sunflower oil - standard glass;
• salt - three tablespoons (with a slide);
• sugar - five tablespoons;
• vinegar (9%) - 50 ml.

Cooking steps

1. Grind the tomatoes with a blender.
2. Cut: onion, bell pepper - finely, zucchini - in medium cubes. For carrots, you need a grater.
3. Put the vegetables in a deep saucepan, squeeze the garlic here.
4. Mix the mashed tomatoes with salt and sugar. Pour in oil. Pour the dressing over the vegetables. Cook for 30 minutes.
5. Add thoroughly washed rice. Boil as much as before.
6. Pour in table vinegar. Put out ten minutes. Roll up immediately.

Uncle Ben's rice fantasy can be spiced up. Repeat the recipe step by step, but with a slight amendment: add two crushed red peppers along with the garlic. For those who like really hot snacks, chili peppers can be added along with the seeds.

5 rules for successful procurement

Taste is not the only thing that matters in home seaming. When preparing canning, the hostesses expect that they will treat guests and households with it all winter. But it so happens that the cans "explode" or the salad begins to ferment. Follow these five tips and the Uncle Bens will last until the next harvest. Unless, of course, stocks run out before the efforts of the household.

1. Wash vegetables thoroughly. Vegetables for salad need to be washed not just thoroughly, but very thoroughly. Ideally, use a special brush: then the vegetables will definitely be clean. If you plan to add spicy herbs to the salad, then rinse it under running water for at least eight minutes. The purity of vegetables is the key to long-term storage of the salad.
2. Sterilize jars and lids. It is necessary to lay out the workpiece only in sterilized containers, use exclusively sterile lids. Otherwise, germs can get into the jar, as a result - the salad will "explode" or ferment. The most popular sterilization method is to "boil" cans and lids in water (five minutes after boiling). True, it is relevant only if there are few containers and they are small. You can sterilize the jars with steam: put a grate on a saucepan with water, put jars on top, keep them after boiling water for 15 minutes. You can ignite washed, not dried cans and lids in the oven (temperature - 120 ° C, time - until dry).
3. Flip the cans. After rolling the salad, the jars are turned over and left to cool. This simple manipulation allows you to make sure that the lid is tight. After cooling down, make sure that there are no wet spots left under the preservation. Long-term storage is impossible without a tight fit of the lid: the salad will ferment.
4. Cover. Preservation is recommended to be wrapped in a blanket and kept under it until it cools. Due to wrapping, the contents of the jar slowly lose temperature, and additional "canning" occurs. This increases the preservation of the salad.
5. Store properly. The ideal place to store workpieces is the cellar. They can stay in such conditions for two years. In a city apartment, preservation should be stored in a cool, dark place, for example, in a pantry. True, the shelf life in this case will be reduced - you need to eat the salad during the autumn-winter season. The balcony is not the best place to store curls: freezing degrades the quality of the product.

If the lid on the jar with zucchini salad is swollen, then the workpiece will have to be thrown away: the canning technology was violated, and bacteria "settled" in the seaming. Don't risk your health!

Ankle Bens salad from zucchini for the winter must be prepared with vinegar, which plays the role of a safe preservative. Uncle Ben's sauce can be made to serve the same day. Take any recipe, remove the vinegar from it, and please your loved ones with a delicious dish.

Who cooks how: reviews

I liked the taste very much. Well, it's just VERY tasty. The only thing I didn't really like was the crispy onion and its distinctly distinctive flavor. My husband didn't like it either. Therefore, last year I modified the recipe a little, after having softened the onion until soft. Why such a name? It resembles the taste of the previously sold Ankle Bens lecho. I don't know if it's on sale now or not.

Mirage, http://forumodessa.com/showthread.php?t=19260

With vinegar it turns out very sour, tomato paste and tomatoes give acid, and also vinegar, I did this salad for the first time and I did not like it due to excess acid, I tried it without vinegar, it was delicious!

Svetlana, http://recept-menu.ru/salat-iz-kabachkov-ankl-bens/