Peel and roughly chop the zucchini. Wear gloves for this part, the zucchini peel leaves a film on your hands that is hard to wash off.
Peel and chop the onion as well, then put the zucchini and the onions through the meat grinder. If you want to make zucchini caviar with a kick, now is the time to add in some spicy peppers. My husband loves spicy food, I try to add some pepper’s anywhere I can. I made half of this recipe spicy, and the other half I left original. Grind the zucchini and onion first into a big pot that you will place on the stove. If you are making this spicy, grind the peppers last into a separate small bowl.
place the pot with zucchini and onion on the stove and bring to a boil. Make sure to cover the pot with a lid so it doesn’t splatter all over your kitchen. Once it boils turn it down to a simmer and cook for 2 hours.
To the pot add tomato paste, mayonnaise, oil, sugar, add only 2 tbl of the salt, and black ground pepper. Mix very well. If you are not adding spicy peppers, then continue to simmer for an hour. ( you can add the other 1 tbl of salt in the end if it needs it)If you are adding the spicy peppers now would be a good time to add them. Add how much or how little of pepper as you would like. I added 5 serrano peppers to mine. If you want to make only half the batch spicy then remove half of the zucchini and onions into a different pot and add the peppers into there. Continue to cook for an hour. Stir on occasion to prevent it from burning on the bottom.It has a pale color right now, it will darken as it cooks. After an hour of cooking add 1 tsp of citric acid ( If you divided the caviar into 2 portions to add the peppers, add 1/2 a tsp of citric acid into each portion)Put the garlic through a garlic presser and add it to the zucchini. Taste for salt if it needs more, add in the rest of it. Mix well then cook for 15 minutes. Stir on occasion so it doesn’t burn on the bottom. ( Or add 1 head of garlic into each portion) Now is the time to disinfect your jars and lids and can some for the winter! If you don’t eat it all before then
