Zucchini is a versatile and useful product that can be eaten practically in any form: boiled, cheese, fried, and also baking cakes, pies and muffins with it. Of course, when you have a rich harvest of these vegetables, you want to keep it as long as possible. Today we will tell you how and where to store zucchini and share some common methods of harvesting.
How to store zucchini?
Zucchini - rather unpretentious vegetables and are appreciated by the fact that they can easily be kept fresh until already cold winter, and if properly stored - and until next season. To do this, it is not necessary to create any special conditions, and you can keep them even in urban apartments, which is very convenient for many summer residents. It is necessary to carry out only a few simple rules:
- zucchini take off from the bushes necessarily before the first frost, because the frozen fruit is completely unsuitable for storage;
- removing zucchini, leave a small tail about 5 centimeters long. It is he who will not let the infection get into the fruit. If you notice during the period of storage that the leg began to rot - it means that the vegetable marrow is spoiled;
- collected for storing zucchini by no means mine;
- we store them in an open form, not packaging in plastic bags;
- suitable temperature for storage from about +5 to +10 degrees;
- we add zucchini in one layer, so that they do not touch each other, with small gaps.
How to store zucchini in an apartment?
We store zucchini necessarily at room temperature in a dim or dark place. Be sure to make sure that the room has an optimum humidity of 60%.
Cold storage
Because of the high humidity, whole zucchini should not be stored in the refrigerator. If you do not have another way, then keep in mind that the fruit storage period will be reduced to about two weeks. So, we put the zucchini in the vegetable compartment and watch that there are no melons, avocados , pears and apples next to each other. They allocate a special "hormone of ripeness", which shortens the shelf life of zucchini twice. Cut zucchini are stored in a cellophane package, but not more than 3 days.
You can still freeze zucchini. To do this, they are thoroughly washed, wiped with a towel and cut into small slices. Separately, we prepare a saucepan with boiling water and a wide pan of ice water, in which we put clean ice beforehand. Blanching zucchini in boiling water 3 minutes, and then immediately drop them into the icy water. Next, we discard the vegetables in a colander, and then put them in containers and put them in the freezer. Frozen zucchini are stored about 9 months to a year.
How to keep zucchini for the winter?
In addition to the above methods of preserving zucchini, you can still preserve them by making a delicious treat, and on winter cold days enjoy delicious zucchini.
Ingredients:
- zucchini young - 1 kg;
- granulated sugar - 6 items;
- lemon - 3 pieces;
- The root of dried ginger - to taste.
Preparation
So, the young zucchini washing, wipe the towel, cut the skin carefully, take out the seeds, cut the vegetable cubes and twist it through the meat grinder. The ready-mixed mass is mixed with sugar and left to stand for all night. The next day, we pour the vegetable mass into a saucepan with a thick bottom. With lemon peel we remove peel, squeeze juice and add to zucchini. We put grated ginger and cook everything on a slow flame, stirring for about an hour, until the jam thickens and becomes transparent. Ready-made delicacy is dispensed on sterilized jars, covered with food parchment and covered with lids.