How to make a dozen salad
Products
for 5 liters of salad
Eggplant - 10 pieces
Tomatoes - 10 pieces
Fresh sweet peppers - 10 pieces
Onions - 10 pieces
Garlic - 1 head (10 teeth)
Vegetable oil - 400 milliliters
Salt - 2 tablespoons
Sugar - a third of a glass
Vinegar 9% - half a glass
Preparation of products for cooking "Tens"
1. Wash, peel and dry the vegetables.
2. Cut the eggplants into large cubes with a side of 2 centimeters, put in a bowl, pour cold salted water to remove the bitterness; then drain the water.
3. Peel the bell pepper of the stalk, partitions and seeds, cut in half and cut into half a centimeter thick shavings.
4. Pour boiling water over the tomatoes, leave in boiling water for a couple of minutes, then remove the skin, cut the stalks and cut into cubes.
5. Peel the onions and cut into half rings 0.5 centimeters thick.
6. Peel the garlic and pass through a garlic press.
How to quickly cook "Ten" salad
1. Pour vegetable oil into a saucepan, put on medium heat.
2. Without waiting for the oil to boil, put first the tomatoes, then the eggplants, bell peppers, onions and chopped garlic, sprinkling with sugar and salt.
3. Cook the salad for 20 minutes, then stir and cook for another 15 minutes.
4. Pour in vinegar, cook the salad Ten for another 5 minutes.
How to cook "Ten" salad not boiled
1. Pour oil into a saucepan, put on fire.
2. Put the tomatoes, cook the salad for 10 minutes.
3. Add onion and bell pepper, cook for another 10 minutes.
4. Add the eggplants and cook for another 10 minutes.
5. Add garlic, stir and cook for another 10 minutes.
Preparation of "Ten" salad for the winter
Arrange the salad in sterilized jars, roll up the lids, turn over and wrap it with a blanket or fur coat until it cools completely. You can open the bank in a week.
Fusofacts
- When cooking salad, the intensity of stirring matters: if the salad is stirred constantly, porridge can turn out. To get an unboiled salad, and the pieces of vegetables remain intact, stir very carefully, with a regularity of a maximum of 10 minutes. - When cooking salad in a slow cooker it is necessary to quickly cook the salad on the "Baking" mode for 45 minutes, slowly on the "Stew" mode for 1 hour.- The name of the salad - "Ten" - is based on the amount of each of the main vegetables that make up the salad.
- A cauldron or a thick-walled saucepan is most suitable for preparing the "Ten" salad.
- To taste, you can add coriander, cilantro and oregano to the salad. It is not recommended to add black pepper, as eggplants create a sharp taste of the salad.
- To make the "Ten" salad thicker, you can add 3-4 tablespoons of thick tomato paste during cooking. And for greater sweetness, it is recommended to add 3-5 pieces of medium-sized carrots to the "Ten" salad. To add both sweetness and thickness without increasing the volume, you can add sugar (100 grams per recipe given). You can add zucchini to the salad, but their delicate taste in the salad will not be pronounced and will be lost behind the taste of eggplant and pepper.
- If the salad "Ten" turned out to be liquid during cooking due to the juiciness and variety of tomatoes, it is recommended to boil the salad for another 10-20 minutes.
- The taste of the "Ten" salad resembles the taste eggplant caviar, but less fatty and sweeter due to sweet peppers and tomatoes.