Main ingredients: Cucumber
Pickled cucumbers- a recipe thanks to which you can very simply prepare overgrown cucumbers for the winter, which are in no way suitable for ordinary pickles. With this method of harvesting, vegetables retain their crunch, and also acquire a pleasant, salty spicy taste, as befits good pickled cucumbers.
For one can of 500 milliliters
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Saucepan, kettle, kitchen knife, kitchen towel, cutting board, plaid, glass jars with lids.
Step 1: Prepare the cucumbers.
Any cucumber will do, the main thing is that they are healthy. Rinse prepared vegetables thoroughly with warm running water several times, shake off excess moisture, and then cut them into slices of medium thickness. If you have an embossed knife, then you can easily use it to make the pieces of your pickled cucumbers look even more appetizing.
Step 2: Pickle the cucumbers in circles.
Boil water in a kettle in advance so that it has time to cool down.
Place twigs on the bottom of the prepared glass jars fresh dill, a few thin slices of carrots and garlic cloves, whole or sliced. On top of all this, put cucumber circles in a container. Fill in jars the right amount salt and granulated sugar, pour cool boiled water, and then add there first vinegar, and then vegetable oil.
Spread a tea towel or thick cloth at the bottom of the pan, put jars with blanks covered with lids in it, and then fill warm water so that it reaches the banks on the hangers. Bring the water in a saucepan to a boil and sterilize the cans in it for 15 minutes after boiling. You will see the cucumbers change from bright green to a more delicate olive green.
Remove the hot cans from the pan, close the lids tightly, wrap them in a blanket and leave to stand upside down until they cool completely. After the cans of pickled cucumbers, you can unravel and hide in a dark place, to other blanks.
Step 3: Serve the pickled cucumbers in circles.
Serve pickled cucumbers in circles in the same way as ordinary pickled cucumbers, that is, as a snack or as one of the ingredients complex side dish... And on a normal day, you can have a good snack with them, just putting them on a slice of bread, and if there is also a cutlet there, then it's generally beautiful.
Recipe tips:
- If you are going to prepare cucumbers, say, in a jar with a volume of one liter or more, then accordingly you will need to increase the amount of ingredients. So on liter jar, for example, you will need in total (both vegetables and spices) twice as much.
- Before you start cooking cucumbers, be sure to rinse glass jars with baking soda, rinse them well and then sterilize.
Pickled cucumbers
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For cooking we need:
Wash the cans, sterilize them. Fill the lids hot water... Soak cucumbers for two hours cold water after cutting off the ponytails.
Peel the carrots and cut into slices. You can try cutting flowers to make them look nice in the jar.
At the bottom of the prepared half-liter jars put a couple of sprigs of dill, 5-6 slices of carrots, a couple of cloves of garlic. Fill the rest of the space with cucumber circles. Any cucumbers are suitable for pickling, even overripe ones. After filling all the jars with cucumbers, in every put the jar in 2 tsp. sugar, 1 tsp. salt, 1 tbsp. l. vinegar.
Pour cold boiled water on shoulders, add 1.5 tbsp vegetable oil on top. l. We cover with lids.
Put a small towel on the bottom of the pan, pour water, put the jars and sterilize for 15 minutes (from the moment of boiling).
We take out, roll up, turn over and leave until completely cooled. Do not wrap ... Very good value. If you find white mustard seeds in the store, you can add 1 tsp to each jar (if you look closely at the photo, you can see how white mustard seeds float). It turns out very tasty too.
Carefully! Jar " cucumber slices»Eaten at a time.
First of all, we try to capture pretty mini cucumbers on the market, but we often neglect our own home-grown overgrown ones, motivated by the fact that it is impossible to twist them deliciously and beautifully. But no, you can create a million ideas on how to prepare large cucumbers for the winter. But perhaps the most delicious salad from cut cucumbers presented below.
1. Wash large cucumbers, cut off the stalks.
2 ... Cut the cucumbers into large circles (0.5-0.7 cm). Peel the onion and cut into rings.
3 ... Wash the dill and chop finely. Put cucumbers, onions and dill in a bowl. Add vegetable oil, vinegar, salt, sugar.
Leave on for 5 hours.
4 ... Then transfer the whole mass to a saucepan and put on medium fire... Stirring occasionally, you need to heat the cucumbers until they change color (in the photo, the cucumbers are just starting to change color). Place immediately in sterilized jars and roll up. Do not be alarmed that there is not enough liquid (cucumber marinade) to cover the cucumbers completely, as it should be. Put jars of cucumbers down with lids "under a fur coat" until they cool completely.
This sliced cucumber salad keeps well throughout the winter, both in the refrigerator and in the cellar.
Chopped cucumber salad for the winter
Cut the cucumbers into 4 pieces and cut them in half. Peel the garlic and pass through a press, add to the cucumbers. Salt and add sugar, then sprinkle with black pepper and vinegar. Now pour the whole mixture abundantly with sunflower oil and stir, leave for 4 hours until there is enough juice.
We sterilize the jars and apply cucumbers.
Sliced cucumbers "like from a barrel"
We wash and sterilize the jars. Put cherry leaves, horseradish, pepper, a few peas, peeled garlic cloves and dill in a container. We also lay well-washed overgrown cucumbers.
Dissolve salt in water, pour salted water into jars of cucumbers, and pour dry mustard on top. Cover the jars with gauze and leave in a dark place until the cucumbers are fermented. Then we roll up the lids and you can hide it in the cellar.
Sliced cucumber snack salad
Wash the cucumbers, peel the carrots and onions. Now you need to cut the cucumbers into circles, in the same way we will cut the onion and carrots, hot pepper... Put everything in a large bowl, sprinkle with salt and sugar, add dill and parsley, pour vinegar and sunflower oil. Stir and let stand for a few hours. Then put the snack in the tubs, sterilize and roll up the lids.
Large cucumbers for the winter
There are no herbs in the recipe, and there is no need to cook the marinade either - and this is very convenient. You can preserve whole cucumbers or cut them into slices, add tomatoes, bell pepper, zucchini, onions.
My recipe specifically for the site By Your Own Hands in the section of conservation for the winter.
This recipe has a very interesting story... It was invented back in times of total shortage, when pickled cucumbers under the Globus brand disappeared from the shelves instantly. In order not to waste time on searches and queues, cucumbers, which taste like a scarce imported product, began to be rolled up at home.
The recipe was named “Bulgarian style pickled cucumbers”.
For a 700 gram can we need:
Cucumbers (whole or sliced) - how many will go
A few peas of allspice
1-2 cloves of garlic
1 Bay leaf hic (not necessary, it's a matter of taste)
1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
A teaspoon of salt (no slide)
Two teaspoons of sugar (no slide)
40 ml. vinegar 9% (I add 6%)
Fill the cucumbers with cold water for several hours - then they will turn out to be strong, crispy. Then wash well and cut into pieces.
At the bottom of clean jars (I sterilize over steam) we put all the seasonings, garlic, dill. We fill the jars with cucumbers.
Now pour salt and sugar into each jar, pour in vinegar.
Fill the cans with cold water (not boiled!) Directly from the tap.
We put in a saucepan for sterilization. Be sure to put cheesecloth on the bottom (it must be folded in several layers) or a napkin, kitchen towel.
Cover up the banks clean lids... Pour cold water so that it reaches the hangers for the jars.
Very important so that the water in the jars and in the pan is at the same temperature - then the vegetables will evenly warm up.
Let the water boil. From the moment the water boils in the pan, we count down the time - 700-gram jars are sterilized for exactly 5 minutes. If you do it in a liter jar - 7 minutes, a 3-liter jar needs to be sterilized for 15 minutes.
We take out the cans and roll them up immediately. Turn the bottom upside down, if the sugar has not completely dissolved, shake the jar vigorously and leave to cool.
Bulgarian cucumbers are stored at room temperature.
Do you cover cucumbers in circles for the winter? Let's share our recipes in the comments.
If you like slices of cucumbers, then here's another recipe.
Often when harvesting, you can come across cucumbers of "irregular shape" or already yellowed.
For cooking you will need (based on a 3-liter jar)
5 cloves of garlic
3 pieces of dill inflorescences
5 currant leaves
10 pieces of black peppercorns (or a slice of hot pepper).
100 grams of sugar
Soak the cucumbers in cold water for 5-6 hours, then they will not taste bitter. Cut well-washed cucumbers into slices. Place the spices at the bottom of the jar, and cucumber circles on top.
Prepare the marinade (boil water with sugar and salt, pour in the vinegar after removing from heat) and immediately pour over the sliced cucumbers. Cover the jars with lids and seal tightly.
Turn them over and wrap them in a blanket until they cool. In winter, cucumbers prepared in this way will be enough just to open, present immediately to the table.
See also how to make crispy mustard cucumbers.
Bulgarian pickled cucumbers (in circles) - a recipe with a photo, Do it yourself
If you like slices of cucumbers, then here's another recipe.
Often when harvesting, you can come across cucumbers of "irregular shape" or already yellowed.
For cooking you will need (based on a 3-liter jar)
5 cloves of garlic
3 pieces of dill inflorescences
5 currant leaves
1 horseradish leaf
10 pieces of black peppercorns (or a slice of hot pepper).
To fill:
1 liter of water
100 grams of sugar
70 grams of salt
45 ml 9 vinegar
Before cooking, soak the cucumbers in cold water for 5-6 hours, then they will not taste bitter. Cut well-washed cucumbers into slices. Place the spices at the bottom of the jar, and cucumber circles on top.
Prepare the marinade (boil water with sugar and salt, pour in the vinegar after removing from heat) and immediately pour over the sliced cucumbers. Cover the jars with lids and seal tightly.
Turn them over and wrap them in a blanket until they cool. In winter, cucumbers prepared in this way will be enough just to open, present immediately to the table.
When already flat, "one to one" cucumbers, are salted, fermented and pickled for the winter, try to prepare a few more jars original salad... The proposed recipe is good because absolutely any cucumber is suitable for it - large, small, not very even, overgrown. This is especially true when the cucumber season comes to an end - the last vegetables are already few and besides, they are all different. It is from such fruits that we advise you to make a blank.
Pickled cucumbers with onions and butter for the winter, cooked over this recipe are suitable both for use on their own with fried or crushed potatoes, and as an ingredient in other salads or additions to sandwiches.
Cucumbers for this blank are cut into rings, onions in half rings, seasonings and oil are added. Cut vegetables are left to marinate for a while, while they secrete juice, the liquid becomes more and additional water is usually no longer required. Pickled cucumber slices with onions are very aromatic and crispy. Garlic can also be added to this recipe, if desired, in this case the appetizer will turn out to be more piquant.
Taste Info Cucumbers for the winter
Wash the cucumbers thoroughly, let them drain and cut into slices. Choose the thickness of the slicing at your discretion, but do not make it too thin or thick, about 0.5 cm. If your fruits are very large, you can first cut them in half, and then chop them in semicircles. Place the sliced cucumbers in a large deep saucepan or bowl so that you can stir them later.
Peel the bulbs, wash and chop into rings or half rings. Transfer to cucumbers.
Add salt to vegetables and granulated sugar, two types of ground pepper (depending on how much you like hot pepper, you can reduce or increase the amount of pepper to your liking).
Pour in cold vegetable oil and vinegar and gently mix all the ingredients so that the spices evenly coat each piece of vegetable.
Cover the dishes with a lid and leave at room conditions for two hours.
Over time, the cucumbers will produce a lot of juice, which will be used as a marinade. Arrange the cucumbers with onions in pre-prepared clean and dry jars, try to tamp the vegetables more tightly. Pour the marinade to the top, cover and pasteurize for 15 minutes in any way convenient for you (in a saucepan of boiling water, in microwave oven or in the oven).
Cork the pasteurized blanks with lids (they must also be thermally treated), wrap them up with a warm blanket and leave in this state until they cool completely. When the cucumbers are cold, store them in the cellar.
To prepare canned food from chopped cucumbers need to pick fresh cucumbers by the same degree of maturity. Then wash the cucumbers in cold water and let it drain. After that, it is necessary to cut off the stalks from the cucumbers and cut into slices up to 2 centimeters thick, or you can cut them into pieces. There are two ways to cook, one is prepared in enameled dishes, and then the cucumbers are transferred to the jar. Another way to preserve cucumbers is to put everything directly into the jar at once.
After the cucumbers have been cut, they are placed in enamel pot, it is necessary to salt and mix well. Cover the pan with a towel and let sit for 12 hours. Chop the horseradish leaves, garlic and dill into pieces, and cut the onion into slices. Prepare the marinade (brine) according to the recipe: add salt and sugar to a saucepan with water, heat until completely dissolved and boil for two minutes, then filter through thick gauze and then add vinegar and let all contents boil again. The next step is to put spices in jars, on top sliced cucumbers mixed with onions and garlic, then pour the cooked hot brine(marinade). Cover the filled jars with cut cucumbers and sterilize them in a saucepan with water. At the end of the jar, roll it up tightly, put the neck down and cool to room temperature. Yours are now ready to eat.
As it was said earlier, in the next step, after the cucumbers were cut, put spices, garlic, onions, herbs and cooked cucumbers on top of the jar. Then pour over the jars with hot brine prepared according to the same recipe and add 1 tablespoon acetic acid... Carry out the procedure for sterilizing jars of cucumbers and turn them over with their neck down until they are completely cooled. According to this recipe, they are more tender and with a small dose of salt. They can be used as already ready salad on the table, with the addition of additional spices at your discretion. And also they are a good addition to meat product and as a cold appetizer.
These two ways you can cook are fairly simple and not difficult. In winter, they will be simply necessary for cooking. various dishes with their use. They will never be superfluous.
The cucumbers are closed with tarragon, which gives them special taste... This herb can be bought on the market and used in preparations.
Ingredients for 1 can of 720 ml:
Preparation:
Banks must first be sterilized. This can be done in any way convenient for you. Pour the pickling mixture, which includes herbs and mustard seeds, into a jar, put a bay leaf.
Then put the tarragon in the jar.
Fresh cucumbers, prepared for rolling, wash well under running water, remove the tails. Cut them into pieces as you like. Add cucumbers to the jar.
Fill up required amount granulated sugar and table salt.
Boil water and pour it into a jar. Top with vinegar at the end. Cover the jar with a lid and place in a pot of boiling water to sterilize. Do not forget to put a cloth or towel at the bottom of the pan, and only then put the can with preservation there.
Sterilize for 20 minutes. After that, take out the jar and tighten the lid well. Turn over and let sit until cool. Then put it in the closet before winter.
If you want to cook sweet crispy cucumbers in jars, then this 1 liter recipe will be just right. Thanks to a large number herbs and greens are all very fragrant. Pickled cucumbers in halves, serve well in winter time, when fresh vegetables practically none or their quality leaves much to be desired. The recipe is simple in that it includes a minimum of ingredients. The main focus is on vegetables and herbs.
Ingredients for 1 liter can:
Preparation:
First of all, you need to sterilize all the cans so that the cucumbers are well preserved until winter and do not explode. Place dried garlic seeds, tarragon sprigs, and leaves from cherries or other trees in a clean, sterilized jar.
Wash small fresh cucumbers, remove the tails and cut in half lengthwise. Place the halves neatly into the jars.
Add a mixture of different peppers and bay leaves for flavor and taste.
So that the cucumbers are better preserved until winter and have pleasant taste, add granulated sugar. Then add a large table salt.
Put a few slices of dried or fresh garlic... You can also add some dried vegetables.
Put chopped onions on top.
Pour boiling water over and add vinegar.
Now you need to sterilize the banks. This can be done in large saucepan putting a towel on the bottom. Place the jars there and boil for 20-30 minutes. The water should cover half the jar. When will it pass the right time, remove the cans from the pan and tighten the lids.
Cucumbers, with sweet peppers and onions can be done easily at home. It will take a little time, but in winter it will be nice to open the jar to the table.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
To begin with, you must first sterilize the cans in any way convenient for you. Put any greens you have in a sterilized jar. It can be dill, parsley, green onions, basil.
Add bay leaves. For an average jar, a few leaves are enough.
For the preservation of vegetables long time add sugar and coarse salt.
Now add special spices for canning cucumbers. You can collect such a mixture yourself: mustard seeds, various herbs.
If you have, add a sprig of dill seeds.
Peel the onions, cut into half rings and add to the jar.
Cut a little bell pepper into strips and add to the jar.
Wash the cucumbers, cut the tails, cut them into 4 pieces. Add lengthwise to the jar. You can put the halves on top.
Pour boiling water over and add vinegar to the jar. Place the lid on top, but do not tighten.
Now you need to choose a convenient way to sterilize filled cans. Either in a multicooker or in ordinary saucepan... It will take 20-30 minutes for this. When you take out the jars, immediately screw them back with the lids. Then set them up somewhere, turning them upside down.
When they are completely cool, you can put them in the closet until winter.
And here's another very interesting video recipe for cucumbers for the winter
Mustard seeds give vegetables a delicate, spicy flavor. When crushed, they are used as a natural preservative. The cucumbers are perfectly stored, the cucumbers retain their crunchy properties.
For such spicy salad fruits can be used different sizes but not overripe. For them, you can see what to cook for the winter from overgrown cucumbers. Mustard cucumbers can be served with meat or fish, potatoes, pasta.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Wash the sorted pimpled gherkins and place them on a wire rack to dry or pat dry with a towel. Cut the prepared vegetables into rings of the same thickness, no more than 1.5 centimeters.
Peel and chop the garlic very finely. Place the cucumber wheels in a convenient container, add the chopped garlic mass, add coarsely ground table salt and sugar. Attach mustard powder, ground pepper, pour in sunflower oil odorless and vinegar.
Mix thoroughly again vegetable mix and stand for two to three hours. During this time, the vegetables will be juiced, soaked in marinade dressing. Prepare the container in advance. Rinse the jars with baking soda and pour over boiling water. Put the fragrant mass into clean cylinders, top up marinade filling and cover with boiled water lids.
Place the jars in a container with warm water and bring to a boil. After active temperature bubbles appear, reduce heat. Finish sterilization 8 minutes after the water starts to boil. Screw the lids tight and turn the cans over.
Cover the cucumber jars with warm materials at hand. Store away from sunlight every other day.