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Zucchini caviar

Zucchini caviar

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Vegetable squash pastes are very popular in Russia, their high-scale production in the USSR started in 1930s and nowadays jars of various vegetable “caviars” can be found in every Russian shop.

Zucchini caviar is perhaps the most popular one. 

It is a blended mixture of baked or boiled zucchinis, tomatoes, carrots and onions.

Russian zucchini caviar (kabachkovaya ikra)  is a low-calorie product (around 78 calories per 100 gram) and is full of goodness – vitamins B and C, carotene and dietary minerals.

This healthy product is also very tasty and can be eaten as a bread spread or served as a side dish.

Another similar product is aubergine caviar.

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