Time to make billets from courgettes

June - a month of summer, when the ripen ripensamazing vegetable - zucchini. Do not love zucchini - it's impossible. It can be cooked, as you please the soul. And with this dish will necessarily cause a lot of positive emotions in those who taste the food. And what splendid blanks of zucchini make mistresses for the winter - one delusion! It is impossible to convey the taste of a pickled or salted zucchini. And there is nothing to compare with. Marinate this vegetable mostly cut with thick rings. Marinade use the same as for cucumbers. If you want a surprise, then fill it with chopped zucchini with tomato sauce instead of the usual clear marinade. And it is better to add vegetable stuffing. These blanks from courgettes are called a layered marinated winter salad. All because the zucchini is laid and minced vegetable in a jar in layers. Vegetable stuffing consists of carrots, onions, tomatoes, celery and greens. After the layers are laid, it is necessary to sterilize the cans in boiling water. By the way, to sterilize the zucchini in tomato sauce or vegetable stuffing should be able to. It is important not to overstrain the preparation and not to digest the vegetables. Floor-liter jar with salad sterilized for about 90 minutes, and the liter - 120. After the required sterilization screw cap jars and flipped to complete cooling.

For those who fast in the spring before Easter, we adviseprepare caviar. These pieces of zucchini will definitely taste. Caviar turns tender, with a refined aroma, awakening appetite, and a wonderful taste. In addition, caviar is not a calorie, but with hunger copes quickly and for a long time.

Cook caviar simple. It will take 6 kilograms of the main vegetable and in addition to it on a kilogram of onions and carrots. These ingredients must be passed through a meat grinder, and then, after placing in a saucepan, cook for at least 2 hours. At the beginning of cooking vegetables are salted to taste, sugar (1 glass) and vegetable oil (1 glass) are added. After the end of the two-hour cooking, 0.5 liters of tomato sauce or tomatoes turned into puree should be added to the caviar. After the addition of tomatoes, caviar is cooked for another 40 minutes. Cooked caviar can either be rolled into cans, or, after cooling, serve to the table.

Before starting to prepare caviar,listen to advice. Firstly, you only need to cook caviar in an iron aluminum pan. Otherwise, the caviar will burn and it will be bitter. Secondly, if caviar is cooked from zucchini already the second crop, then with a vegetable, before grinding in a meat grinder, you must cut the skin and remove the grains. Thirdly, in order for caviar not to burn and evenly prepared, it is necessary to stir it periodically with a wooden spatula (not iron).

In general, the zucchini is excellent in any dish. From it prepare and snacks, and the first dishes, and side dishes, and salads. In recent years, conservation and procurement of zucchini for the winter do housewives less and less. Today, in honor this vegetable frost. And this is true. It is proved that in a frozen vegetable, much more useful components are retained than in its preserved analogue. The main thing is to properly freeze and know how to defrost.

Options for freezing zucchini, alsoabound. Before starting to prepare the vegetable for freezing, it should be clearly defined for what purpose it is harvested. If you plan to squash zucchini in a frying pan in winter, it's better to cut it with rings. If the family likes to eat squash stew, then it's best to freeze already cut cubes zucchini. Another option for freezing - a preform of zucchini for cooking, for example, all kinds of hot salads. Zucchini, if you take out the middle and shape the boat, it can become an excellent tartlet for salad or serve as an original dish for some dish. By the way, in the form of an already prepared boat, you can vegetable and freeze.

As for defrosting, it is necessary to do thisin the refrigerator, and not at room temperature. Defrost completely zucchini is not necessary. Otherwise, during heat treatment, it will lose shape and beautiful appearance.

Freeze all sorts of zucchiniIt is necessary portioning, preferably in a special container or tightly closed bags. Portions should not be very large. It is better that the vegetable is enough for one cooking.

And it is very useful to drink squash juice. How many vitamins and trace elements in it - not count! And in the juice of the tavern the secret of youth is hidden. Fresh, only squeezed juice is more useful than canned. Therefore, if you want to rejuvenate (and zucchini juice contributes to it) drink it to health! Moreover, that zucchini are not translated until the fall.