Zucchini in tomato

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make pickled zucchini with garlic in tomatoes for the winter without sterilization? Prepare the necessary products for harvesting. Add chili pepper as desired. Choose young zucchini without large seeds or thick skin. Take tomatoes that are juicy, fleshy and ripe. Prepare jars in advance and sterilize them. Read more about this in a separate article, the link is at the end of the recipe.

2. STEP 2

   

   Prepare tomato sauce for preparation. To do this, chop the tomatoes in any way convenient for you, removing the skin. You can use a chopper, juicer, blender, meat grinder. Pour the resulting tomato mass into a saucepan and bring to a boil. You can take ready-made tomato juice (not salted) or ready-made tomato sauce without spices and boil. An article on saucepans, link at the end of the recipe, will help you with choosing the ideal pan.

3. STEP 3

   

   Wash the baby zucchini, cut off the edges and cut the vegetables into medium-sized cubes. You shouldn't cut it large, it won't be convenient. But you don’t need to chop it too much, otherwise the zucchini will turn into mush.

4. STEP 4

   

   Add chopped zucchini to the boiling tomato sauce. Carefully lower the cubes, otherwise the sauce will splatter.

5. STEP 5

   

   Add refined, odorless sunflower oil, freshly ground black pepper, salt and granulated sugar to the pan. Stir with a wooden spatula.

6. STEP 6

   

   Cook the zucchini in the tomato sauce over low heat for 25 minutes from the moment it boils. Stir the mixture periodically so that all the pieces of zucchini cook evenly in the tomato sauce.

7. STEP 7

   

   Then pour vinegar into the pan with the zucchini. 9% vinegar can be replaced with vinegar essence. A calculator will help you correctly calculate the amount of essence; a link to it is at the end of the recipe. Add finely chopped garlic cloves. For a spicier option, you can add finely chopped chili peppers at this stage. Boil the zucchini in the sauce for another 10 minutes, covering with a lid.

8. STEP 8

   

   Place the hot zucchini along with the sauce into clean and sterile jars. From this quantity of products two half-liter jars are obtained.

9. STEP 9

   

   Seal the jars with clean and sterile lids. Turn the pieces over and cover with a warm blanket. Allow the pieces to cool completely and store them in a storage place.

10. STEP 10

    

    Store the workpiece in a cellar or kitchen cabinet. Zucchini in tomato sauce is good cold. Perfect as a side dish for meat or fish dishes. Good luck with your preparations!

Comments on the recipe

Yozhyk

31.08.2023

4.9

Delicious preparation, thanks to the author for the clear recipe. You can close zucchini for the winter using this recipe.

Natalia M

31.08.2023

5

I grew two huge zucchini (or zucchini, I don’t even know, they are green and striped). I really love various zucchini preparations, so I prepared this wonderful appetizer. I peeled one zucchini because... his skin had become rough, and the second, smaller one, had not been cleaned. Cut into large pieces. In total it turned out to be 2.5 kg. I increased the amount of other ingredients accordingly. Tomato filling is done very simply and quickly, just put the tomatoes through a meat grinder. I cooked it a little longer, because I ended up with a whole bowl of vegetables) I rolled everything up as indicated in the recipe. I really liked the finished snack! There was a little left to try, but I didn’t even have time to take a photo, it was so delicious) The zucchini didn’t get overcooked, they remained intact and had a little crunch, a pleasant consistency. The taste is simply amazing, now I will definitely add this recipe to my notebook, it will be next to my grandmother’s recipes) Thank you, very tasty!

Svetlana

31.08.2023

5

This is not the first time I’ve cooked zucchini in tomatoes for the winter and it turns out amazingly delicious every time! This year there were a lot of zucchini in the garden, so I closed a lot of jars at once. This time I used homemade tomato juice. They opened one jar the very next day and couldn’t resist. Yummy!!