A Delectable Dance For The Taste Buds!
So, yesterday I walked out into the garden to water, and returned to the kitchen with this times four:
Of course, there are the common zucchini recipes that one produces this time of year: zucchini bread (banana, blueberry, pineapple, and double chocolate versions unite!), muffins, and cake all come to mind. However, one of my very favorite zucchini foods is zucchini salsa.
Not only is it absolutely, amazingly tasty, one eight pint batch uses ten cups of shredded zucchini. That is around three, ten inch zucchinis!
Another bonus is that my children inhale the stuff, and it is veg city composition wise, yay!
I watched one of my friends, a Navy master chief, sneak a jar away from the crowd and eat the entire thing, it is that good! Well, it is a source for potential food hoarder behavior amusement at the very least, so that alone makes it worth spending the time on creating a batch!
Zucchini Salsa
10 cups peeled, shredded zucchini
4 chopped onions (I used sweet onions)
2 green peppers
2 red peppers
1/4 cup pickling salt
1 Tablespoon yellow mustard
1 Tablespoon garlic powder
1 Tablespoon cumin
1 Tablespoon pickling salt
2 Tablespoons of cornstarch
1 1/2 Tablespoons red pepper flakes
4-5 chopped tomatoes (about 8 ounces a piece)
12 ounces tomato paste
1 cup brown sugar (I have reduced this to 3/4 cup and it still tastes great!)
2 cups of white vinegarThis is a two day or prep in the morning can at night process, I have
done both.In a large bowl place the zucchini, onions, and both kinds of peppers.
sprinkle with 1/4 cup of salt and mix well. Cover the bowl and let it
sit a minimum of 7-8 hours.After salt soakage, rinse and drain thoroughly. Get out the largest
stock pot you have and place the zucchini, onion, pepper mix into the
pot. Add everything else in the recipe ingredients list to the pot.Bring the pot contents to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 15
minutes.Load salsa into whatever size canning jars you wish and process whatever way suits your fancy. I am at 2500 feet elevation, so I water bath can this recipe in pint jars for 20 minutes. This might be an excessive processing time, but I don't mess around with bacteria, and I find that any extra cook time really brings out the flavor in this recipe. The choice is up to you!!!
I better stop with this theme before Seth Rogen makes a movie about it.
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I looks yummy! Nice recipe :)
looking at the ingredients it's got to be..... yum, yum!
Thank you! Your blog looks amazing! I love quick and easy recipes😊
very thanks you
Thank you!! It's really awesome! I make and can at least 2 or 3 batches a year!
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Yeah I broke down and bought a food processor. I have done the cutting long hand, but the food processor does a great job. However, if Im just doing a small job, I still do it by hand.
I hear you! I still use the knife and box grater on smaller jobs, but boy that food processor comes in handy on some of the larger ones! Especially since my knife skills are not legend and I don't like the fact that I leave half the flesh off of my fingers on the grater most of the time, lol!
Great recipe! It looks great with all the vegetables. I like the spiderman too.
Thank you! It really is one of my favorite ways to use zukes, and I'll let my friend know that you dig her Spiderman pot holder creation, lol! I love it!
That's great. So, the Spiderman holder was made by your friend.
Very creative people.
The salsa earns 5 out of 5 stars by my taste test standards.
THE CRITIC HAS SPOKEN! And the words were that of approval! SQUEE!!!
Thank ye!!!
And it isn't even a paid endorsement!
Mwuaaahhhhh..... oh, sorry.
Never had zucchini salsa, but if a Navy Master Chief has to sneak off with a jar, it has to be worth diving into.
When you think about the fact that he was a submariner, your comment just became even more awesome to like the power of 10, lol!
And sorry, this afternoon everything I wrote was slightly morbid, and I left it, unlike the skin on the zucchini. I. Can't. Stop! Lol 😂😂😂
Lol, oh you're a hoot! 😄😄
That's look like i need to try it out
Thanks for sharing.
I sure hope that you do, and thank you so much for commenting 😊
This looks amazing! Will try to make this as soon as my zucchinis will be ready. I guess I am the only one in this family who gets excited about zucchinis, but maybe your recipe will change their minds. Here is my little brother when he still was excited about zucchinis about seven years ago, hehe!
Oh my! That is a pile of zucchinis!! You could make tons and tons of salsa! LOL! My friends ate an entire jar at game night yesterday, so I suppose it is reasonably edible. Thanks for sharing that pick, I love how the zuke is almost as big as he is, lol!!😆
This looks so good! Thanks for the recipe! If don't know what to do with all the zucchini, spiralized zucchini (or zoodles) is always a favorite at our home.
Zucchini give so much -- plants like that should be appreciated! So I'm glad you are enjoying all of yours! Can't have too much salsa -- just too much chips, lol! ; )