There are many ways to prepare vegetable caviar. Thanks to simple recipes, healthy pumpkin caviar will become a favorite dish on the table. Appetizing caviar with amazing taste is made from pumpkin!

Classic pumpkin caviar

Required Products:

  • pumpkin - 1, 5 kg;
  • 2 onions;
  • 1 carrot;
  • vegetable oil — 30 ml;
  • salt, spices, garlic - to taste.

Cooking Technology:

  1. Peel the pumpkin. Cut into slices so that it is convenient to grate. Set the mass aside.
  2. Chop the onion and grate the carrots. Fry them in vegetable oil until light golden brown.
  3. Add pumpkin to sauteed vegetables. Stir, add salt, sugar. Cover, let the caviar stew.
  4. After a while, the pumpkin will decrease in volume, become soft and change color. It must be interrupted periodically, when moisture evaporates, remove the cover.
  5. If there is little oil, so that the caviar does not burn, you can add more, you should also add spices.
  6. Before removing caviar from the heat 5 minutes before cooking, squeeze the cloves of garlic and mix well.
  7. Serve in a cooled form or spread on sandwiches, decorate with greens.

Simple winter harvesting

Delicious pumpkin caviar for winter is very easy to prepare and does not require sterilization.

Required Products:

  • pumpkin - 2.5 kg;
  • vegetable oil - 150 ml;
  • 500 g of onion;
  • 300 g tomato;
  • salt - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
  • vinegar 9% 70 ml;
  • mixture of peppers, bay leaf, thyme, basil.

Cooking Technology:

  1. Chop and fry the onion in butter in a large frying pan or cauldron, where the caviar will be cooked.
  2. It is necessary to peel the pumpkin, cut into cubes and blanch for 3-5 minutes. The pieces should soften. Drain the water, grind it with a blender to a homogeneous consistency.
  3. Remove the peel from the tomato and grind them to the state of tomato juice. Pour the tomatoes to the onion. Extinguish, add part of the salt. When the mass becomes thicker, add the pumpkin.
  4. Boil the mass over medium heat, stirring regularly until thickened and discolored.
  5. After 30-40 minutes add the remaining salt, spices, vinegar. Mix again and place in sterilized jars. Close the lids.

With the addition of zucchini

If you add zucchini to the caviar, the pumpkin flavor will almost disappear. As a result, less zucchini will be needed to make caviar, and it will be more healthy.

Required Products:

  • pumpkin - 900 g;
  • zucchini - 500 g;
  • onion - 2 pieces;
  • 1 carrot;
  • frying oil - 50 ml;
  • tomato paste - 2 tbsp. spoons;
  • salt, spices, garlic - to taste.

Cooking Technology:

  1. Grate peeled pumpkin and zucchini. Salt them and put in order to let the juice go.
  2. Next, prepare the fry from onions and carrots, pour pumpkin, zucchini there, squeeze the juice from them first.
  3. Stew under the lid until vegetables are softened. Stir occasionally. As the juice evaporates, add tomato paste, salt, spices, garlic.
  4. If it sticks to the pan, add more oil. Taste, if all is enough, turn off the fire. Let the caviar brew. According to this recipe from pumpkin and zucchini, you can cook delicious caviar by replacing the ingredients and composition.

If you use non-stick pans, the amount of vegetable oil for vegetable caviar will be significantly reduced.

Fast and tasty pumpkin caviar

Required Products:

  • pumpkin - 900 g;
  • 1 onion;
  • 1 carrot;
  • 2-3 cloves of garlic;
  • salt, spices, herbs - to taste.

Cooking Technology:

  1. Steam pumpkin slices with onions and carrots. Cool them, pass through a blender.
  2. Put the mass in a saucepan, pour in vegetable oil. Salt and pepper.
  3. Boil caviar until thick, add greens and spices to taste.
  4. This recipe is not only the simplest, but also dietary. If you put the caviar in a jar, you can store it in the refrigerator for several days. Ideal for low-calorie sandwiches with toast and herbs.

Cooking in a slow cooker

A crock-pot for modern hostesses has become a lifesaver, it’s a pleasure to cook caviar in it!

Required Products:

  • pumpkin - 1 kg;
  • 2 onions;
  • 3 tomatoes;
  • hot pepper to taste;
  • vegetable oil 25 ml;
  • salt, spices, herbs.

Cooking Technology:

  1. Peel and chop not all vegetables coarsely. Turn on the "Extinguishing" multicooker mode. Pour in vegetable oil.
  2. Put all the vegetables in the multicooker bowl, add salt, spices, herbs. Close the lid, cook until the quenching function is complete. During this time, the vegetables soften, saturated with salt and spices.
  3. Next, you should knead the contents to the state of caviar or beat with a blender. Let it brew, put in another bowl and cool.

Hot recipe with tomato paste

  1. If you add bitter peppers, following any of the suggested recipes, you can cook spicy caviar from pumpkin. The more pepper, the brighter the taste.
  2. Tomato paste is not always added to caviar, but it gives a special taste and gives a beautiful color. Tomato paste can be replaced in the recipe for tomatoes, and vice versa.
  3. Spicy caviar with tomato paste can be prepared for the winter, these ingredients do not affect the quality of preservation. Such caviar can be stored all winter in the basement.

Pumpkin caviar for the winter through a meat grinder

Required Products:

  • pumpkin - 2.5 kg;
  • 3 onions;
  • tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l;
  • vegetable oil - 150 ml;
  • sugar - 2 tbsp. l;
  • salt 1, 5 tsp;
  • vinegar 9% - 90 ml;
  • spices, herbs of Provence.

Cooking Technology:

  1. Peel and chop all the vegetables, pass them through a meat grinder.
  2. Heat the oil in a cauldron, add spices, Provencal herbs and vegetables chopped in a meat grinder. Stir, reduce to medium heat. Cover and simmer for half an hour.
  3. If the caviar sticks to the bottom of the cauldron, add more oil and mix more often.
  4. When the mass decreases by half, put the tomato paste, salt, sugar.
  5. 5 minutes before ready to pour vinegar, put out a little more. Arrange in sterilized jars, immediately seal.
  6. Cover the jars with a blanket, leave to cool completely, and then send for storage to a cool place.

If you tighten the eggs with lids with twists, you do not need to turn them over until they cool completely.

Vegetable caviar with eggplant

  1. Any ingredients can be added to the pumpkin, this vegetable as a sponge absorbs the taste. Caviar according to this recipe will taste like eggplant. It is prepared by any of the proposed methods.
  2. Vegetables can be blanched or chopped raw. Add the fry from onions and carrots.
  3. Vegetable caviar is prepared in vegetable (olive) oil. It can be stewed, boiled, steamed, in a slow cooker or fried in a cauldron.
  4. Before putting eggplant in eggs, it is better to clean them. If they are bitter, soak in salt.

This caviar, interesting in taste, is prepared from the simplest ingredients, and the taste turns out to be very refined and tasty!

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