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Uncle benz at home. How to cook a snack of zucchini with Ankle Bens tomato paste for the winter, you will lick your fingers with simple recipes

The sauce with the foreign name "Ankle Bens", the recipe of which we will consider in detail in our article, came to us from abroad. Let's learn how to make this appetizer.

Sauce "Ankle Bens": the first recipe

To prepare for the winter, you will need the following range of products:

  • ripe red tomatoes in the amount of 4 kg;
  • Bulgarian ripe pepper in the amount of 25 pcs. medium size;
  • medium-sized carrots - 5 pcs.;
  • onion (heads of medium size) in the amount of 5 pcs.;
  • sugar - about 1;
  • 1 tbsp table salt (about 10-15 grams);
  • half a glass of vinegar 9% (volume 100 ml);
  • vegetable oil with a volume of 1 cup (about 200 ml).

Step-by-step instruction

How is Ankle Bens prepared? The recipe for this sauce is simple. First, wash and clean the vegetables. Grate the tomatoes in a meat grinder (or use a blender, grater). Put salt, sugar and butter in them. Place the container on the fire and boil for 15 minutes.

Peel the peppers from the internal partitions, stalks, remove the seeds. into half rings. Grate the carrot. Chop the onion into rings.

Transfer prepared vegetables to boiling tomatoes, cook for 15 minutes. Then pour in a glass of vinegar. Stir. Hold on fire for another 5 minutes and lay out in pre-prepared jars. You have delicious and thick sauce"Uncle Bens". The recipe is designed for about 6-7 liters of finished lecho.

How and with what to serve the sauce?

Lecho "Ankle Bens" will be a wonderful addition to pasta dishes (spaghetti and vermicelli), boiled potatoes, rice. It can be used as a ready-made sauce for meat. In addition, Ankle Bens is served as an individual appetizer. The sauce is tasty and pleasing to the eye.

"Uncle Bens": a recipe for the winter

You can preserve lecho according to the second method, having the following set of products available:

  • young fresh zucchini in the amount of 2 kg;
  • ripe tomatoes in the amount of 2.5 kg;
  • fresh garlic weighing 200 g;
  • 1 kg bell pepper;
  • about 50 grams of salt (2 tablespoons with a slide);
  • a glass of sugar (about 200 g);
  • a glass of vegetable oil (about 200 ml);
  • half a glass of vinegar 9%.

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How to cook "Uncle Bens"? A recipe with zucchini may turn out to be more successful than without them. At the beginning, prepare all the products. Tomatoes should be washed and cut into slices. Then grind them with a meat grinder (blender, grater). Peel and chop the garlic in any way. Rinse the zucchini, remove the skin from overripe fruits. into small cubes. Cut the pepper, remove the stalk, seeds and partitions and cut into strips. Mix tomatoes, zucchini, garlic. Put the indicated amount of sugar in the vegetables, vegetable oil and salt. Stir and put on fire to stew for half an hour. After that, put the bell pepper and vinegar into the sauce. Stir again, wait until it boils and cook for another 20 minutes. place in containers, cork and set to cool. Serve salad in winter independent dish and as a sauce meat delicacies. "Ankle Bens" is perfect for barbecue or grilled chicken.

As for various sauces and seasonings, ketchup confidently occupies a leading position among them. Probably there is no hostess in whose refrigerator there would not be a jar ready ketchup. In the supermarket you can buy ready-made various additives for every taste, spicy or delicate. Trips to nature are not complete without a cherished jar, because what could be better for fried meat than delicious fragrant ketchup.
But not everyone knows that it is not at all necessary to buy this sauce in a store; you can cook such a seasoning yourself in your kitchen. Try making Unkle Bence ketchup, a basic winter recipe, but you can add seasonings and spices to your liking. Cooking it is quite simple, and it diverges very quickly, so it is better to immediately increase the number of ingredients several times.
To prepare Ankle Bence ketchup, we will take only the ripest tomatoes, red in color with a thin skin and fleshy texture, they will give the main taste and color to the finished product. To get a uniform consistency of the sauce, be sure to remove the skin from the selected tomatoes. To do this, we will make small cruciform cuts on the peel, and lower the tomatoes for a couple of seconds in boiling water.
To make ketchup a milder taste, instead of white onion take a gentle salad, but this is how you like it best.
With this on hand, you can always cook tasty dish, such as chicken meat with vegetables in tomato sauce, or cod in tomato sauce. Can be added as a dressing to borscht, hodgepodge, cabbage rolls, or used as a barbecue marinade.
We will definitely wash the ketchup jars and steam sterilize them, boil the lids.
Ankle bens ketchup recipe is designed for 9 cans, 0.5 l.



Ingredients:

- ripe tomato fruits - 5 kg,
- turnip or salad onion - 0.2 kg,
- dry mustard - 50 g,
- table salt - 90 g,
- fresh garlic - 60 g,
- ground black pepper - 20 g,
- granulated sugar - 0.4 kg,
- bay leaf -2-4 pcs.,
- table vinegar 9% - 30 ml.




We wash the prepared tomatoes, remove the skin from them and grind them with a food processor into a homogeneous tomato mass.





Pour into a saucepan, add bay leaf, pepper and cook over low heat for 15 minutes, while removing the foam.





Add all the spices, crushed garlic, table vinegar to the sauce.








Pour the ketchup into pre-prepared sterile jars, roll up the lids. Immediately turn the jars upside down, wrap them in a blanket and wait until they cool. After a couple of days they can be taken out for storage.





It's so easy to prepare Ankle bens ketchup at home for the winter. Bon Appetit!
Old Lesya

Zucchini salad appetizer called Ankle Bens has been familiar to many since the 90s of the last century. It is preserved for the winter or eaten freshly prepared. Such homemade easy to prepare. The advantage is that the recipes do not require additional sterilization of jars filled with salad with tomato paste. This makes the cooking process easier and faster. In addition to the standard list of products, other ingredients (garlic, beans, curry, dried herbs) can be added to Ankle Bens with zucchini for the winter.

Zucchini for such harvesting is better to buy young ones. From the aged fruits, you will have to remove the seeds and the upper peel. Before cooking, it is advisable to soak the zucchini, and then wipe with a cloth to remove dirt.

Recipe #1 (Basic)

Zucchini salad prepared in this way is considered traditional. These recipes are great for vegetarians.

Required products:

  • 1 kg of zucchini or zucchini milk ripeness;
  • olive or sunflower oil - 150 g;
  • garlic head;
  • 150 g of sugar;
  • curry (Indian seasoning) - 2 tsp;
  • leguminous hot peppers- 4 things.;
  • 0.5 st. l. salt;
  • 50 g regular table vinegar.

Step by step preservation:

  1. Wash the zucchini and dry.
  2. Cut vegetables into small cubes or bars.
  3. Peel the tomatoes from the skin. To do this, first make cuts crosswise on the tomato. After that, lower them into boiling water and boil for 2 minutes. Take out and place in cold water. The vegetables should now peel easily. Grind the pulp into pieces.
  4. After peeling the onion heads, cut into thin half rings.
  5. Prepare the composition for pickling: pour vinegar according to the recipe and pour oil into a container, add salt, granulated sugar, curry seasoning. Boil.
  6. Pour cubes of zucchini or zucchini into the marinade and cook for 10 minutes.
  7. Add chopped peppers and onions to the bowl. Boil for another 10 minutes.
  8. Place the tomatoes in the pot with the zucchini and boil the same amount more.
  9. The next step is to add the crushed garlic and boil the vegetables for about two minutes.
  10. Pour into jars and seal tightly with lids. During cooling, the jars should be upside down.

Recipe number 2 (zucchini with tomato)

With a salad of zucchini called Ankle Bens harmonize meat dishes, bird. It has an original sour-sweet aftertaste with spiciness.

Salad Ingredients List:

  • unripe zucchini - 2 kg;
  • sunflower oil- 250 ml;
  • sweet pepper (necessarily red) - 500 g;
  • onion heads - 3 - 4 pcs.;
  • 1 large head of garlic;
  • table vinegar - 60 g;
  • 1 liter of purified drinking water;
  • a tablespoon of table salt.

How to preserve snacks:

  1. Wash all vegetables and cut into equal pieces.
  2. Boil the sugar and water syrup, add salt and add tomato paste, sunflower or olive oil.
  3. Boil the chopped zucchini in this mixture. It is enough for about 10 minutes to pass after the sauce boils.
  4. The next step is to add the remaining vegetable ingredients to the simmering pot. Boiling time is again about 10 minutes.
  5. Crush the garlic under pressure, mix with vinegar and pour them into a saucepan with salad. After stirring the contents of the pan, boil for another 10 minutes.
  6. Now it's time to lay out the snacks in sterile jars for hermetic sealing.
  7. After reaching room temperature the workpiece is lowered into a cool cellar.

Recipe number 3 (with bell pepper and tomato sauce)

Several vegetables are added to the ingredients of this preparation for the winter: Bell pepper, Sauce Of Tomato And Carrot. The salad is suitable not only for side dishes and meat, but can also be an independent snack. Zucchini is considered a unique vegetable, even after heat treatment practically without losing useful trace elements.

For canning, prepare:

  • 0.5 l jar of Krasnodar sauce;
  • 2 kg of young zucchini;
  • 800 g of onion;
  • 70 ml of ordinary vinegar;
  • 700 g of sweet pepper;
  • 1 kg of tomatoes;
  • a glass of granulated sugar;
  • 1 tsp citric acid powder;
  • 250 ml of vegetable oil;
  • 0.5 cups of salt;
  • 600 g carrots;
  • 3 tsp curry seasoning (optional)

Vegetables are thoroughly washed and then chopped. Zucchini is cut into cubes, peppers are cut into long strips, onions are cut into thin half rings, tomatoes are cut into small slices, and carrots are rubbed on a grater.

To prepare Ankle Bens sauce for the winter, pour 600 ml of water and vegetable oil into a saucepan according to the recipe. Add sauce, granulated sugar, salt. This mixture should boil for about 5 to 7 minutes.

Add the vegetables to the marinade one by one. First up are the zucchini. After everything boils, a quarter of an hour should pass. Then pepper and onion are placed in the container. When the water boils, the fire is reduced, the vegetables are stewed for another 10 minutes. Now it's the turn of carrots and tomatoes.

Gradually, the liquid released from the vegetables evaporates, and the mass becomes dense. But it should be borne in mind that the vegetable mass will not be homogeneous, like caviar. At this time, you can pour in the vinegar and pour citric acid. At the same time, add the curry and boil the contents of the pan for another 2 to 3 minutes.

Divide the salad into glass jars which must be sterilized first. After that, they are hermetically sealed. After cooling, you can take them out to the basement for long-term storage or put them in a closet in the apartment.

Recipe number 4 (with unripe tomatoes)

This blank has a sweet and sour taste of gravy. Rice is added to the traditional set of vegetables, which gives density, makes the salad more satisfying.

Some recipes call for half the zucchini, replacing the second half of the zucchini. In addition, Ankle Bens is prepared for the winter only from eggplant. The taste is excellent - you will lick your fingers.

Ingredients needed to make the salad:

  • 4.5 kg of tomatoes (green or slightly brown);
  • 1.5 kg of Bulgarian sweet pepper;
  • 450 g of steamed rice;
  • 150 ml of table vinegar 9%;
  • 1 or 2 pods of bitter pepper;
  • carrots, zucchini (you can take zucchini) and onions - all components 1 kg each;
  • 300 g of refined sunflower oil;
  • salt - 3 tbsp. l.;
  • ΒΌ cup sugar.

How to prepare a salad? The most time-consuming procedure in cooking is the preparation of vegetables. They need to be washed, dried and crushed. Then zucchini, carrots, onions, tomatoes and hot peppers are twisted through a meat grinder. Sweet pepper cut into large cubes.

Pour vegetable puree into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add granulated sugar, salt, sunflower oil heated in a pan (it will give a peculiar flavor) and boil for a quarter of an hour. During boiling, be sure to stir the brew so that the snack does not burn. Care should be taken as the mass may splatter.