Hello everyone. September in the Garden is time for new adventures. Some plants are done for a season and others such grapes and figs are ripening and having lovely fruits. Also it is time for preparation of food products for winter and later on. You can start in August as well if all needed fruits and vegetables are ready or you can store some and wait for all of them to be ready. As we collect our fruits and vegetables from the garden we eat some and store ones we can use and prepare later. These days we prepare pinđur with vegetables from our garden. Pinđur is traditional Balkan relish used as summer spread. You can eat it with bread or add it to the food that you are cooking. Lovely addition to homemade sauces.
I will go through the process step by step.
Lets start with ingredients. For pinđur we need carrots, peppers, tomatoes, onion, garlic, zucchini and green beans. One of the main ingredients is eggplant but this is our version without eggplant - maybe while making other jars we add eggplant as well. In our version instead of eggplant there is zucchini so it makes it even. There are several version of pinđur out there for sure. We use smaller pot that is enough for about 5 kilogram of pinđur sauce so we will make several cook outs during September to prepare enough sauce.
Lets start with fresh collected green beans. One of the ingridients.
It was hot this year and many neighbours did not have green beans and beans in general but this bean plant is still looking good.
Next one we have zucchinis. Two small zucchini for this round of pinđur. Smaller zucchinis have softer shell as we put it without peeling it of.
Just for size comparison between zucchinis. Big zucchini with two small ones.
Fresh carrots. We did not collect carrots yet as there is still time for them to grow and get bigger. Now there is more soil in the ground so they can grow bigger.
This is enough for this time.
Different types of peppers. Yellow, green and red peppers.
Everything is sliced and ready to cook. Here there are onions, pappers, garlic, zucchinis, carrots and green beans. In this part we added tomatoes a bit later but you can mix all ingredients all together and start cooking the pinđur. You add salt, little sugar and little vinegar.
As I mentioned before we store and freeze some of our vegetables for later use. This time we used tomatoes from this year that we put in the freezer. We still have tomatoes from our greenhouse so the ones that we cannot use right away we store them. We took them out to defreeze them.
Since they are frozen peeling of tomato skin is easy. You dont have to peel it of but it was not hard this time to do so. This is how tomatoes look after they are grinded.
Other vegetables in the pot after the cooking look like this.
Now we add final ingredient.
And you let it cook.
It cooks around two and a half hours and your pinđur is ready.
After cooking is done you pour it into jars and next day it is ready to use. Here you can notice that some jars are different color because they were cooked at different times. We already tried some and it is very delicious.
It is beginning of our vegetable and fruit jam, sauce and other preparations. There is more job to be done but it is going nicely for now.
Photos by @sammy00.