What kind of caviar is this? More?
Oh girls! My grandmother also cooked caviar from cucumbers. She used overgrown cucumbers. I didn't eat caviar more delicious, it's a pity that the recipe was lost, and the grandmother is no longer alive. I went to the forum in Google, there are so many recipes, but it's hard to figure out which one of them looks like my grandmother. It looks like everything is the same, but the taste is different.
And the history of the appearance of caviar from pickled cucumbers goes back as far as 12 years ago. My younger one was not yet there. I had a classmate at the institute. We had our own company, and she lived not nearby, jumped out early to get married, gave birth to a daughter. She was asking for a visit, for every session she moved to us. And no one invited her somehow. My brother was indignant all the time that she didn't have a house. And I will not expel a person. She lived with us on everything ready. In principle, as it were, the relationship developed and after the institute they supported them up to a certain point. Well, by the way, all this is not related to the topic. Once my husband and I were at her birthday party (I hate pickled cucumbers. Here are pickled cucumbers, as much as you like, but with vinegar, even kill me, it has always been like this, as long as I can remember), but here cucumbers are just delicious ... I asked for a recipe, she hesitated, but gave. And in the harvesting season, I carefully put everything in jars according to the recipe and my husband and I (my son was not even a year old then) are waiting for winter. But what a disappointment it was! The cucumbers were terribly salty, although crunchy like straws. It was a pity that there were so many cucumbers (and my husband respects cucumbers very much!). And it's a shame.After all, according to my mother's recipe, I did not close a single can then! Well, as they say, there would be no happiness ... I told the story of my mother-in-law's cucumbers and she reassured me, said that it’s okay, next year we will close the gorgeous cucumbers for her son, and now let him eat other vegetables, you have so many canned foods! They say you have enough for 3 years.
I already wanted to turn out all the cucumbers in the trash, but my grandmother didn’t let me, she said in the summer I’ll take them to the village, there the piglets from the neighbors in the country would be happy to eat them. So they remained in the banks. And in the spring, my husband and I went to Budapest, my brother lives there. And his wife once served a meal at supper, well, it painfully resembled our squash caviar. But there was something like that in her! I ask, what kind of caviar is this, like and squash, but it seems not. And she replies that caviar from pickled cucumbers and pumpkin, many people here love her. And she gave the recipe. In principle, there was no recipe as such, everything was by eye. We come home, I take a jar of my failed cucumbers, in the pantry, just one garbuzik (pumpkin) lay stale and it turned out .... I did not expect it myself! In general, we reanimated all our cucumbers, bought all the harmelons in the district (just kidding!). It turned out a lot of caviar, but did not live to see the fall. My husband and I "venerated" her well. And my son only saw a jar with this product, he immediately demanded!
And it turned out to be ridiculous, the same classmate came to visit us, they treated her, she immediately asks for the recipe. And take your husband, but blurt out: "everything is simple, you take cucumbers cooked according to the recipe you gave ...". She quickly got ready and has not called since. And we do not hold evil ... That caviar was delicious!
Well, now the recipe. Simple to the point of disgrace.
I take a can of pickled cucumbers
pumpkin, about 1-1.5 kg. Pumpkin absorbs salt very well. which saved our cucumbers.
-2-3 onions, here to taste, as you like, mine like to taste the onion, so I take 3 large heads.
- tomato paste (here the main thing is not to overdo it with it). Because the taste of tomato paste will overwhelm the taste of caviar (however, this is true in every caviar). Residents of Ukraine will quickly be able to find their bearings if I say that Chumak paste needs about 1.5 tablespoons, well, a maximum of 2, and for example Nezhin tomato paste, no more than a spoon is needed, even if the color is not very pleasant, it is better not to overdo it. Otherwise, the taste of the tomato will ruin everything. I think every housewife will adapt to her favorite tomato paste. It's not a problem.
Well, salt and pepper to taste.
Not a lot of vegetable oil.
Well, basically that's all. With the purchase of a multicooker and a food chopper, I was completely lazy, chopping everything in the chopper into small pieces.
On the "Baking" mode, put 40 minutes and first fry the onion until golden brown and the cartoon starts to release a pleasant onion smell. Then I add the cucumbers, also chopped in a chopper. After 15 minutes I fall asleep chopped pumpkin and pepper it all. I do not salt, because the family does not like salted foods, and cucumbers still leave salt. Well, here it is already to taste, and cucumbers of different salinity. All this is "baked" so to speak, I interfere 2-3 times. After the multi signal, I grind everything into the grinder and grind everything until smooth. Let it cool down and back to the slow cooker, on the "quenching" mode -1 hour. In the meantime, I'm preparing jars with lids. After the signal, I turn off the multicooker and on a spoon, I let the product cool down, I try, if there are enough spices, I don’t add it, and when I made it from pickled cucumbers, not pickled, I had to add a spoonful of apple cider vinegar and 2 tablespoons of honey (sugar is possible). I add the chasnok passed through the "crusher" (6-8 cloves), stir and again simmer for 10-15 minutes in the "stewing" mode. In general, when I hear that the caviar is ready to cut out, I turn it off and cans it.
Mine like it. Try it. But I will say right away that you need to pick it up with spices every time, depending on the taste of the cucumbers.
Bon Appetit. I would be glad if you like it!