How to cook ayvar
Products
Red bell pepper - 2.5 kilograms
Tomatoes - 2.5 kilograms
Garlic - 8 large teeth
Bow - 1 large head
Mustard - 35 grams
Sugar - 125 grams
Hot pepper - 8 pods
Vegetable oil - 170 grams
Salt - 10 grams
How to cook ayvar
1. Wash the bell pepper, dry it with paper towels.
2. Put whole peppers on a baking sheet, place in an oven preheated to 150 degrees, keep for 20 minutes.
3. Cool the baked peppers a little.
4. Remove the skin from each pepper with your hands.
5. Cut the peppers in half, remove the cores.
6. Wash the tomatoes, pour boiling water over for a minute, drain the boiling water.
7. Remove the skin from the tomato, cut out the place where the stalk is attached.
8. Wash pods of hot peppers, cut them in half, peel them of seeds.
9. Cut the peeled onions into large slices.
10. Peel the garlic cloves.
11. Peeled bell peppers, hot peppers, tomatoes, onions, garlic mince or chop in a blender, mix in a saucepan or metal bowl.
12. Place the container with the aivar over a moderate heat, cook for 20 minutes, stirring so that the aivar does not burn.
13. Pour vegetable oil into ayvar, mix, continue cooking for 40 minutes.
14. Add mustard, sugar, salt to ayvar, mix, keep on the stove for another 1.5 hours until thickened.
15. Prepare jars for aivar: wash the jars thoroughly, place them on a wire rack in a cold oven with the neck down, turn on at 150 degrees, hold the jars for 15 minutes, remove.
16. Hold the lids in boiling water for a few minutes and dry.
17. Pour hot aivar into the jar, seal it tightly.
18. Turn the cans over, leave for three hours.
Fusofacts
- Aivar is a Balkan dish featuring vegetable caviar made from large quantities of baked red peppers, often with eggplants and tomatoes.- The name "ayvar" comes from the Turkish word "havyar", which translates as "caviar".
- According to the traditional recipe, you should put twice as much bell pepper in ayvar as eggplants.
- Usually ayvar is prepared in large quantities from 5-25 kilograms of red bell pepper. In such volumes, in the homeland, aivar is cooked by lighting fires right on the street, and placing pans over the fire for cooking.
- Aivar is served to the table in a separate small container as a seasoning for meat and side dishes, sandwiches are made with it, and they also eat on their own, dipping bread into it. Aivar is great for kebabs and fried meat.