Traditional hot Abkhazian sauce - adjika perfectly is suitable for various dishes. It is possible to roll up adjika for the winter, having prepared it from a fresh vegetables.
Ingredients necessary for preparation of spicy adjika:
- 1.3-1.5 kg of paprika;
- 3-4 hot peppers;
- 1 kg of soft ripe tomatoes;
- table salt and a black pepper to taste;
- 15-16 ml of vinegar.
We cook spicy adjika for the winter:
1. All necessary vegetables need to be washed in cool water and to put on a towel that dried.
2. Then to cut tomatoes on quarters or halves, depending on their size. Too to cut paprika, having removed all seeds and partitions. Hot pepper can be not cut, only to remove a fruit stem.
3. The prepared ingredients need to be crushed. It is possible to make it somehow: pass via the meat grinder, chop in the blender or the food processor.
4. The crushed vegetables need to be placed in a pan, to add pepper and salt, to mix. Cook spicy adjika about 40-45 minutes on average fire that it thickened.
5. In 3-4 minutes until the end of preparation it is necessary to add vinegar and to mix.
6. Ready spicy adjika needs to be spread out on clean dry jars, to close densely covers. It is the best of all to use small jars, for example, from baby food.
7. After adjika cools down at the room temperature, it is better to move away her for storage in the fridge.