Ajapsandal recipe in jars for the winter
Canned eggplant is a fairly common twist that many housewives prepare. Very often they are used to prepare ajapsandali for the winter. This is a traditional Kazakh dish made from tomatoes, peppers, onions and blue ones.
In some cases, other ingredients are added to it. Such a preparation differs from other preserves by its unique aroma and taste.
Classic recipe
It will help prepare this dish for the winter with a recipe that is used by almost all housewives. To roll up eggplants in jars, you need the following ingredients:
- a kilogram of blue;
- 200 g onions;
- two peppers;
- 300 g tomatoes;
- greenery;
- 300 ml of oil;
- 100 g of salt.
At the initial stage of preparing canning, prepare the eggplants. To do this, they must be thoroughly peeled to get rid of the peel, and the stalk must be removed from each vegetable. After that, the blue ones are cut into small pieces and laid out in a bowl. Chopped vegetables are covered with salt and infused for 2-3 hours. This is to keep the blues less bitter. Then the soaked vegetables are thoroughly squeezed out to get rid of excess liquid.
Having prepared the eggplants, you can start preparing the rest of the products. You can start with tomatoes, which need to be peeled. To get rid of it, tomatoes should be immersed in hot water for 3 minutes and then immediately placed in cold liquid. After removing the peel, all the tomatoes are finely chopped and placed on the bottom of the pan in which the dish will be prepared.
After preparing the tomatoes, you can do onions. It is washed in cold water and cut into rings. Then you need to cook the bell pepper. It is necessary to separate it from the stalk, remove all seeds from it and cut it into strips. It is recommended to use different colored peppers to make the curl look nicer.
Having prepared all the ingredients, you can start preparing the dish. To do this, pour the oil into the pan and heat it well. Then put chopped pepper and onion on its surface. Everything is thoroughly mixed and stewed until a blush begins to appear on the onion. In parallel with this, eggplant and pepper are added to the tomatoes. The vegetables are mixed and stewed until the blue ones are slightly softer. At the end, a little greens are added to the container, which must be boiled for no longer than 5 minutes.
Vegetables from the frying pan and saucepan are distributed over the jars, poured with vinegar and covered with lids. Ajapsandal must be kept in a cool place for the winter, as it will quickly deteriorate in a warm room.
With basil and cilantro
This recipe for ajapsandal for the winter differs from the classic ingredients.To prepare this dish, you will need the following products:
- five peppers;
- three onion heads;
- two cilantro;
- three basilicas;
- parsley with dill;
- two heads of garlic;
- 3 kg of tomatoes;
- 200 ml of oil;
- 80 g of salt.
Cooking a snack begins with preparing the onion. First, it should be completely peeled and finely chopped. Then it is placed in a saucepan and roasted over low heat for 10 minutes. In parallel with frying the onions, prepare the tomatoes. They are peeled, finely chopped and added to a container with onions. After that, the seeds are removed from the pepper, it is chopped and mixed with the rest of the ingredients.
After 10-15 minutes, add chopped garlic with chopped herbs to the container. The mixture is stewed for another 15 minutes, after which salt is added to it.
Eggplant must be cooked separately from other foods. They are washed out and soaked in cold water for 5-7 minutes. Then they are finely chopped, fried in a pan and simmered in a saucepan with other ingredients. The resulting mixture is distributed over sterilized cans and rolled up with lids. Rolled containers are turned over and cooled in a room with room temperature. After this, it can be placed in the basement.
Conclusion
Preparing ajapsandal for the winter is not so easy. To do this, you should familiarize yourself with the recipes for this dish.
And since when is Ajapsandali a Kazakh dish?