Zucchini with tomatoes and garlic for the winter

Cookinero 22 Feb 2025

Zucchini and tomato appetizer is one of the best vegetable combinations. They complement and saturate each other well. This dish will be tasty and rich both cold and hot. A universal appetizer that you can serve as a separate dish or offer it as a vegetable stew for hot dishes. Sweet and bright appetizer will become popular at your table, especially during winter.

How to cook Zucchini with tomatoes and garlic for the winter

Step 1

Zucchini with tomatoes and garlic for the winter

Chop the garlic with a knife or use a garlic press, cut the chili pepper into thin slices. You can remove the seeds from the pepper if you don’t like their taste. Place the garlic and pepper in a deep saucepan.

Step 2

Zucchini with tomatoes and garlic for the winter

Cut the zucchini into cubes, if necessary remove the seeds and too tough skin. Cut the tomatoes and place them in a saucepan with the zucchini. Add vegetable oil and simmer over low heat for 20-30 minutes.

Step 3

Zucchini with tomatoes and garlic for the winter

Add salt, spices and herbs to taste to the vegetables, mix well and leave to simmer for another 10-15 minutes under the lid.

Step 4

Zucchini with tomatoes and garlic for the winter

Add vinegar to the snack, mix thoroughly and transfer the finished snack into jars. Close the jars with iron lids, wrap them up and leave until completely cooled.

Zucchini with tomatoes and garlic for the winter - FAQ About Ingredients, Baking Time and Storage

Yes, you can substitute zucchini with eggplant or yellow squash for a similar texture and cooking time. Adjust the seasoning to taste.
When properly canned and sealed, this recipe can last up to 1 year in a cool, dark place. Once opened, store in the refrigerator and consume within 1 week.
Yes, this recipe is naturally low in carbs. For an even lower-carb option, reduce the tomatoes and increase zucchini or swap tomatoes with lower-carb vegetables like bell peppers.
Yes, you can freeze it in airtight containers for up to 3 months. Thaw in the refrigerator before reheating gently on the stove.
Serve it as a side dish with grilled meats, mix it into pasta, or spread it on crusty bread as a bruschetta topping for a flavorful appetizer.
Absolutely! Increase the amount of chili pepper or add a pinch of red pepper flakes during cooking for extra heat.
Halve all the ingredients for a smaller portion. Cooking times may slightly decrease, so check for doneness around the 15-minute mark.

Reviews: 0

0 Overall rating
5
0
4
0
3
0
2
0
1
0

Have you already prepared this recipe? Tell what you think.

Write a review

Will be displayed on the comment.
Your review must be at least 50 characters.

Trending

Baked pears with cottage cheese

There are those who love pears in their simplest and most natural form - "from the tree" or bought from a trusted market merchant, and there are adherents of pears baked, grilled or stewed in sugar syrup. This recipe is for the latter, alth

Armenian Lavash Roll with Stuffing

Perhaps the most versatile dish you can think of is a lavash roll with filling, because you can stuff lavash with whatever your heart desires. Lavash with vegetables, with salad, with canned fish, sweet lavash with cottage cheese. The choice of filli

Kharcho with chicken

Usually kharcho is cooked in beef broth. But we decided to break the rules to get a slightly different, but no less tasty dish. Kharcho based on chicken will be more dietary, but in taste it will be the same famous Georgian soup, which you can easily

Dumplings baked with sour cream

Pelmeni are a familiar, filling and tasty dish. But you can cook them in a very original way: bake them in the oven with sour cream sauce. This option for cooking the dish will not take much time, but will please you with the result. Juicy meat in te

Asian Spritz

Three ingredients point to the Asian origin of this "Squirt": soju - the Korean national drink, the juice of the Asian citrus fruit yuzu and another citrus - pomelo.

Beef shurpa

Shulum, chorpa, shorpo, sorpa... In different countries, shurpa is called by different names, but it looks about the same everywhere: a rich soup with meat and vegetables. Various herbs and spices can be added to it, or it can be made on the basis of

Categories Menu Recipes
Top