If we have the opportunity (ie if there is room in our freezer) put 1-2 oritsa preservation of food

I keep myself in the same pattern of the previous post ... processing and preservation of summer fruits and vegetables. You see, even though we live in paradise vegetable, meaning that even the dead of winter we find eggplant, zucchini, peppers and cucumbers still not accustomed to consume products offseason. But other off-season, and other preserved products.
Always preservation of food maintaining the food left over was looking for producers and -in a source for consumers. The conservation methods have multiplied with the use of technology so we can have when we want food that we like, but produced in the era tous.I drying and canning, have given way in the freezer. But how much longer fit and Herms freezers! So it is good to remember the older ways ...
So today my proposal for the conservation of courgettes. The first way -the apoxiransi- is old. Before freezing. preservation of food Pumpkins offered for drying should be megaloutsika and cut into thin slices.
Previously the dried long wooden planks or reeds covered preservation of food with cloth or strung into long kolaines (so we say in Crete necklaces of various materials, even those amberjacks with daisies). Let's look in more detail what we do:
Wash the zucchini and cut into small slices. preservation of food Salt them lightly (put less salt than you would use if you cook). Leave a strainer to "sweat" and to dry slightly (2-3 hours).
The spread on kitchen paper lined baking sheet and try not covers one slice each other as possible. We leave again for a while that the paper to pull more moisture. Remove the paper because if dry completely preservation of food over it will stick and not coming easily.
Let the sun covered with tulle until completely dry, have no trace of moisture. The shrinkage is impressive, but when hydrated acquire the volume again.
When you are ready to store in glass containers airtight. Previously stored them in a cloth bag, like pillows. In winter will be used in omelets, oily and other applications (I reserve ...).
Let's see now a more modern method, freezing. Available for zucchini cut into round or oblong slices, we will use the winter to sfougata (round) or moussaka (the raceways). Because 'pass' preservation of food from the oven, the slices should now be thicker. The procedure habit is similar to that do aubergines. Let us recall:
Wash the zucchini and cut into thick slices about one centimeter. The spread in a single layer on the oven shelf which we have covered with baking paper. With a brush brush them with olive oil. Put them on the grill until lightly browned.
The turn and on the other hand, oil and xanapername the grill. Be careful not to break the turn because, because they have more moisture than the eggplant, roasted courgette preservation of food slices are softer.
If we have the opportunity (ie if there is room in our freezer) put 1-2 oritsa preservation of food toasted slices on trays in the freezer and after picking up in pouches. Thus retain their shape better.
Last year I had a whole lot I did not know what to do with them, I put a little preservation of food grated in kataxypsi but was not the best. This year did not succeed at all. You know but in the future ..... dried is in the jar plain; As the leaves grape leaves; Using the same technique can maintain eggplants tomatoes peppers; Kalimeraaaa Reply Delete
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Good day !!!! I'm new to your company preservation of food and I must admit that I am thrilled with both tips and your posts !!! I ask a clarification on the retention of courgettes in the freezer ........... put them directly on the baking sheet and bake in the grill? We do baptism saline as aubergines? Confused because the materials referred to in Alai but the execution is not. Thank you !!! Reply Delete preservation of food
Welcome Demeter. Thank you for your kind words. You're right, I forgot to write about salt. No we do not put them in brine. Add salt to the bowl as those dried. The draft of eggplant in saline aims and the bitterness preservation of food of which do not need the pumpkins ... Reply Delete preservation of food
Hello and from me. Congratulations on your Blog which advises Mr here about 2 years. Yesterday Mr yesterday cooked stuffed zucchini and salty kolokythopi