How to cook "Mother-in-law's tongue" salad
Products
for 3 liters of "Mother-in-law's tongue"
Zucchini - 3 kilograms
Bulgarian pepper - 3 large, 300-350 grams
Hot red pepper - 1-2 pods
Garlic - 1 not large head
Tomatoes - 2 large (can be replaced with 2 tablespoons of tomato paste)
Vinegar 70% - 1 tablespoon (or half a glass of 9%)
Sugar - 1 glass
Salt - 2 tablespoons
Sunflower oil - 1 glass
Food preparation
1. Thoroughly wash the bell peppers and hot red peppers, dry them and remove the stalk and seeds. To avoid burns, rubber gloves should be used when cleaning hot peppers.
2. Cut the tomatoes, pour over them with boiling water and peel them; remove the stalk.
3. Coarsely chop the vegetables, roll them through a meat grinder or chop them in a blender.
4. Zucchini, if old, then peel and seeds, and cut into cubes 3x3 centimeters in size.
5. Peel the garlic, crush or chop finely.
How to cook "Mother-in-law's tongue" in a saucepan
1. Place the zucchini in a large saucepan and pour in the chopped vegetable mixture.
2. Add a glass of sugar, pour in vegetable oil, add salt and mix well.
3. Put the pan on the fire and cook "Mother-in-law's tongue" with occasional stirring with a wooden spoon for 1 hour after boiling. Boiling during cooking "Mother-in-law's tongue" should be small.
4. Add garlic to "Mother-in-law's tongue", pour in 1 tablespoon of vinegar and cook for 1 minute.
5. Turn off the fire, put "Mother-in-law's tongue" on the banks.
How to cook "Mother-in-law's tongue" in a slow cooker
1. Put all vegetables in a multicooker container.
2. Add chopped garlic, add oil, add sugar and salt, cook on the "Stew" mode for 1 hour 10 minutes with the lid of the multicooker open.
3. Add vinegar and garlic, cook for another minute.
Fusofacts
The name of the salad is "Mother-in-law's tongue" - as the salad turns out to be very spicy. As a communication style of a newly minted relative. :)Care must be taken when adding pepper to Mother-in-law's Tongue - first, do not overdo it. Secondly, when handling peppers, be sure to use gloves so that the bitterness of the pepper does not burn your skin.
To make the preparation less caloric, you can replace the oil partially or completely with tomato juice.
You can prepare "Mother-in-law's tongue" without vinegar - in this case, sterilize the jars and lids especially carefully, or calculate the use of "Mother-in-law's tongue" within a month (and store it in the refrigerator).
You can cook "Mother-in-law's tongue" longer for 20-30 minutes, then "Mother-in-law's tongue" will become a little more liquid in consistency.
Serve "Mother-in-law's tongue" on bread, as a sauce for rice and pasta, fried vegetables.
For a change, you can cook "Mother-in-law's tongue" using eggplant instead of zucchini.
"Mother-in-law's tongue" will be stored in sterilized jars for a year in a cool, dry, dark place.