Adjika for the winter
Description
Since the preserving season is in full swing, I want to offer you another excellent and very simple recipe for adjika for the winter. This wonderful appetizer is quite easy to prepare, and during the cold autumn and winter months it will become simply indispensable, because it can be used both for making sauces and meat dishes, and served at the table as an accompaniment to all kinds of meals. Believe me, with it your lunches, dinners, and breakfasts will become much brighter and richer, so I suggest you definitely make homemade adjika for the winter—its taste will remind you of the hot summer all year long. Serve the appetizer at the table.
Instructions
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Step 1
So, be sure to put on gloves, and first of all wash the hot pepper and cut off the stems; removing the seeds is optional.
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Step 2
For now, you can take off the gloves and start preparing the rest of the vegetables. Peel and rinse the carrots, then grate them using a coarse or medium grater.
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Step 3
Then peel the apples, remove their cores, and grate them on a coarse grater as well, then add the apples to the carrots.
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Step 4
We clean the sweet pepper of seeds and cut off the stem attachment point, grind the pepper through a meat grinder or in a blender, and add it to the rest of the vegetables.
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Step 5
Blanch the tomatoes and remove their skins, then chop the tomatoes using a meat grinder or blender as well, and place the tomato paste in a saucepan. Put the resulting vegetable mixture over high heat and bring it to a boil, then stir everything and bring the mixture to a boil again, repeating this several times. Then reduce to low heat, cover the saucepan with a lid, and simmer everything for 1.5 hours, stirring periodically.
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Step 6
As the time is coming to an end, we need to mince the garlic and hot pepper. Put them in a saucepan, add vegetable oil and salt, mix everything, and simmer for another half hour.
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Step 7
Now we simply distribute the hot adjika into pre-sterilized jars and seal them. Turn the jars upside down and leave them to cool, then move them to a cool, dark place for storage. Adjika for the winter is ready!