Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, ajvar. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Ajvar is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Ajvar is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
Whether you are looking for new flavors, or you're a food lover or a connoisseur, this is the place where you'll find literally everything about true ajvar, along with loads of inspiration on how to. Ajvar (pronounced: / ˈ aɪ v ɑːr /; Cyrillic script: ajвар, aйвар) is a condiment made principally from red bell peppers and oil. It became a popular side dish throughout Yugoslavia after World War II and is nowadays popular in Southeastern Europe.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook ajvar using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Ajvar:
- Get 5 capsicum (red roga peppers)
- Make ready 3 large egg plant/aubergine
- Prepare 4 clove garlic
- Take 3 chillies
- Make ready 1 tbsp salt
- Get 1 pinch pepper
- Make ready 2 tbsp vinegar
- Prepare 1/4 cup vegetable oil
While the peppers are cooling, pierce skin of eggplant with a fork all over. Place eggplant on cool side of grill. Ajvar originated in Serbia and spread throughout the Balkans. Now this savory red pepper dish is a true wintertime staple.
Steps to make Ajvar:
- Grill eggplants and capsicum until charred. Allow to cool and peel off skin. Remove seeds from capsicum.
- Wash eggplant and capsicum flesh in colander and drain well…
- Place eggplant, capsicum, garlic, chillies into a food processor and pulse into paste.
- Heat oil in a saucepan. Add paste with salt and pepper, stir together with a wooden spoon. Cook on low heat for up to 3 hours, stirring occasionally.
- When spread is almost done, prepare jars by cleaning and rinsing with boiling water. Place upside down in a oven with lids at 100 C for 20 minutes.
- Fill jars to within 2cm of the top and seal well. Place jars back in the oven for 10 minutes.
- Once cooled keeps best in the fridge.
Every fall, when the harvest time for red peppers comes, you can see people carrying full sacks of these red beauties (either grown by themselves or purchased from local vendors, because they are dirt cheap at this time of the year) for roasting them at home and making. Ajvar is a blend of the freshest red bell peppers and eggplant. The beauty of this dish is that it is so versatile, and you can enjoy it as part of many meals, such as pasta, meat dishes, and even as a snack with some fresh bread. Ajvar, pronounced "Eye Var", is a sauce or condiment made primarily with red peppers and oil, though an extremely popular variation includes eggplant (called Malidzano), which I've chosen to make here. You'll find it common in the cuisine of the Balkans.
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