Homemade sauces for winter

Many housewives like to prepare a variety of homemade sauces for the winter, recipes at home allow you to make preparations for soups, second courses, appetizers. With their help, it will be possible to prepare a delicious lunch or dinner with a minimum of time. As a basis for preparing sauces are fruits, favorite vegetables: tomatoes, zucchini, sweet and hot peppers, as well as all kinds of greens. Homemade dressings are distinguished by bright color, unsurpassed aroma and impeccable taste characteristics.

Home canning combines a lot of advantages. First, it allows you to save time on cooking your favorite dishes in the fall and winter period. Secondly, the family budget will not suffer. After all, when there are good stocks, you will have to go to the store less often. Thirdly, by preparing roll-ups yourself, you can be sure of their quality and composition.

Dill sauce – a universal seasoning for any dish

Surely you freeze greens for the winter. Fast freezing allows you to preserve all the vitamins. But if there is no more space in the chamber, then you can make delicious sauces for the winter, recipes from dill are very popular. The dressing turns out a bright green color. Therefore, it will give the finished dish bright notes.

Dill contains a high concentration of vitamins and minerals. It is indispensable for increasing the strength of bones and joints, lowers the level of bad cholesterol in the blood, has a calming and relaxing effect. Dill has a natural diuretic effect. Therefore, it promotes the elimination of toxins and toxins from the body.

Ingredients:

• Chopped dill – 2 cups (250 ml);
• Garlic – 1-2 heads (about 10 cloves);
• Lemon – 1 small;
• Vegetable oil – 100 ml;
• Salt – to taste.

Method of preparation:

1. Dill is thoroughly washed. It is desirable to soak it for a couple of minutes in boiling water, and then rinse with running water. Dill is dried and placed in a blender bowl;
2. Add peeled garlic and lemon zest to the dill. Cut the zest from the lemon very thinly, if you get the white soft part, the sauce will be a little bitter;
3. Squeeze the juice from the lemon pulp and add it to the dill;
4. Add vegetable oil and salt the sauce;
5. Once again pass the mixture through the blender;
6. Spread the sauce into sterile jars and close with lids. Store the resulting dressing should be stored in the refrigerator.

A similar sauce can be prepared from green bell pepper, it is used instead of dill. Instead of lemon, wine vinegar is added.

Plum sauce for the winter

It is quite easy to prepare fruit spicy sauces for the winter, recipes at home imply the use of ripe, but at the same time dense fruits. Plum dressing is suitable for adding to soups, meat and fish dishes. It can be served with pasta. In the latter case, it will be possible to prepare a delicious dish in 10 minutes.

For the preparation of sauce, ripe blue plums are used, which increase appetite and increase intestinal peristalsis. Fruits help to cleanse blood vessels from cholesterol plaques, reduce anxiety and stress levels in the body, support eye health. In addition, plum strengthens the immune system and helps to eliminate excess moisture from the body.

Ingredients:

• Ripe blue plum – 1 kg;
• Sweet bell pepper – 2 pieces;
• Red onion – 3 heads;
• Garlic – 1 medium head;
• Chili pepper – 1 piece;
• Vegetable oil – 2 tablespoons;
• Tomato paste – 2 tablespoons;
• Sugar – 2 tablespoons;
• Salt – 1 teaspoon;
• Fresh cilantro – 3-4 sprigs.

Method of preparation:

1. All fruits and vegetables are thoroughly washed, garlic and onion peeled;
2. From the plum remove the pit and cut into 4 pieces;
3. Remove the stem and seeds from the pepper and cut into large pieces;
4. Cut onions into large rings;
5. Pass plums, peppers, onions, garlic through a meat grinder or puree with a blender, add tomato puree, vegetable oil, sugar and salt;
6. Pass greens 2-3 times through a meat grinder;
7. Put the sauce in a saucepan, bring to a boil and stew for about half an hour;
8. Add the greens to the dressing, mix the mass thoroughly and simmer for another 10 minutes;
9. Pour the sauce into sterile jars, close with sterile lids. Cover the jars with a warm blanket and let them cool down completely. After which we put them away for storage.

You can enrich the flavor of the sauce with mint leaves. It will give the dressing a pleasant refreshing flavor.

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Apple Ketchup

If you love ketchup, then this recipe is included just for you. It is prepared very simply, and poured into sterile jars, stands all winter. If desired, it can be taken out and eaten. Unlike the store analog in the composition of homemade ketchup you can be 100% sure.

This recipe is ideal for preparing a small amount of sauce. It includes apples, which add a pleasant sour note to the finished dressing. With tomatoes it is better to remove the skin and remove the seeds. Otherwise, there will be seeds in the finished product. From the specified amount of ingredients, you can prepare 3 jars of ketchup of 0,5 liters.

Ingredients:

• Onion – 1 head;
• Sour dense apple – 1 piece;
• Ripe tomatoes – 1.2 kg;
• Sweet pepper – 1 piece;
• Sugar – 2 teaspoons;
• Salt – 1,5 teaspoons;
• Ground black pepper – ½ teaspoon;
• Cinnamon – ½ teaspoon;
• Vinegar – 1 ½ tablespoons.

Method of preparation:

1. Peel onions, cut into 4 pieces;
2. Prepare bell pepper. It is scalded with boiling water, cleaned of seeds and divided into 4 parts;
3. Tomatoes peel off the skin, remove the seeds, cut coarsely. Do the same with the apple;
4. We visit the ingredients in a saucepan and stew over low heat for about 2 hours. At first it is necessary to stir. When there is enough liquid, stirring is not necessary;
5. After 2 hours, turn the mass into a puree, add salt, sugar, spices, vinegar. Boil the puree for another 20 minutes. The excess liquid should boil off, and the mass itself should thicken;
6. After 20 minutes, taste the ketchup. If the spices are not enough, add them and stew for another 5 minutes;
7. Pour the ready mass into sterile jars, roll up the lids;
8. The jars are turned upside down and wrapped in warmth;
9. After the blanks cool down completely, put them away for storage.
10. Cooks all over the world prepare sauces. Having prepared a few different variants, you will surely find a worthy use for them and already use them constantly in your diet.

In many cuisines of the world, special attention is paid to sauces. Of course, today in stores you can buy almost any dressing, but much healthier and tastier products prepared by yourself. Various combinations of ingredients will help to achieve unique flavor characteristics.