Homemade vegetable caviar from pumpkin for the winter in jars

How to prepare vegetable pumpkin caviar for the winter

For this preparation we will need vegetables:

• pumpkin – 2.5 kilograms of pulp;
• onion – 500 grams;
• carrots – 800 grams.

Wash the pumpkin and cut it in half. Using a spoon, remove the fibers and seeds from each half and cut off the thick skin with a knife. Then, cut the vegetable pulp into cubes and put it in a pan.

Advice: Pumpkin seeds are very healthy, so you can wash them and dry them in a dehydrator, oven, or fry them in a frying pan.

Pour 2.5 liters of water into the container with the pumpkin, close the lid and cook over low heat until soft. This took me about 50 minutes.

Now let's move on to the rest of the vegetables. Peel the onion and cut into cubes. Grind the carrots through a coarse grater.

Pour 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil into the frying pan and begin to fry the vegetables. In order to speed up the process, you can cover the pan with a lid, but then the vegetables will taste boiled. If you want to preserve the aroma of fried vegetables, it is better not to close the lid.Frying the onions and carrots took me about 30 minutes.

When all the vegetables are ready, let's start preparing the caviar. Pumpkin with fried vegetables needs to be punched with a blender until smooth. I advise you to do this in small portions and add water if necessary.

Add 250 grams of tomato paste, 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 3 pinches of ground black pepper and 1.5 tablespoons of salt to the vegetable mixture.

Mix everything, cover with a lid and set to simmer on low heat. This procedure will take approximately 40 minutes. To avoid burning, the workpiece should be stirred every 5-7 minutes.

Attention! Be very careful when opening the lid of the pan, the caviar “spits” very much.

While the vegetable mixture is cooking, sterilize jars and boil the lids.

Place pumpkin caviar in prepared containers, cover with lids and sterilize for 20 minutes.

After sterilization, the jars must be covered with a warm blanket for a day, and then the workpiece must be stored in the basement or cellar.

Try to diversify the list of your winter preserves with homemade vegetable pumpkin caviar, using this step-by-step recipe with photos.