EGGPLANT AND PEPPERS WITH SAUCE IN JARS

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EGGPLANT AND PEPPERS WITH SAUCE IN JARS

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My nieces came from Thessaloniki and brought plenty of eggplants and peppers from their garden. When they left, there were still many left, so I thought of making them in jars, just like my friend and I used to do when we worked in Kos during the season.

After work, we would make eggplants with peppers in jars to have them in winter! (Oh, those were the days, my God...!!!) And we would use them for everything, as appetizers, in the oven with pasta, with meat...the jars were gone in no time. So, I roll up my sleeves and head to the kitchen!

Our ingredients are:

2 kg of eggplants, cut and peeled

1 kg of green and red peppers

2 kg of ripe tomatoes, passed through a grinder

6-7 garlic cloves, sliced

1 dry onion, chopped

2-3 leeks (the white part), finely chopped olive oil

salt and pepper

a little sugar (1/4 tsp)

Directions

In a large saucepan, pour olive oil and fry the eggplants until they get color on all sides. We add them gradually so that the temperature does not drop, and after removing them, we place them in a colander to remove any excess oil. When we fry them all, we continue with the peppers. We fry them on all sides and when we remove them, we put them in a clean bag to peel them easily.

After peeling the peppers, we cut them into thick slices. Then we continue with our saucepan. We pour olive oil, fry the dry onion, leeks, and garlic, and at the end, we add the eggplants, peppers, and finally, the tomato. We add a little warm water, salt, pepper, a little sugar, and lower the lid, simmering for 30-40 minutes.

On the fourth burner, we preheat the oven to 100 degrees Celsius and place our clean jars with their lids on a baking sheet on a clean towel, with the openings of the jars facing up. We leave them for 15 minutes to sterilize.

Then, as the sauce with the eggplants and peppers boils, we carefully take one jar with a clean oven glove, fill it with the sauce, close it with the lid, and turn it upside down until it cools. We follow the same procedure for the remaining jars.