If we compare the demand for small and large cucumbers, then the first ones are usually snapped up immediately, while the second ones are sorted out less willingly and on a residual basis. Here, among the options for harvesting for the winter, weighty cucumbers are not a priority, the emphasis is on small cucumbers, which are more suitable for making fashionable pickles. But such neglect of the strong men is not entirely fair.
Pickled and pickled large cucumbers may not have a pronounced and beloved crunchiness, but their dense, fleshy flesh perfectly absorbs the flavors and aromas of the spices with which they go through the cooking process together.
They will be very appropriate during mass (for example, wedding) feasts, when a huge amount of pickles is required for various dishes. You are tormented to cut small ones, but work is much more fun with large ones. The same can be said about the New Year's and other winter holiday tables, which cannot be imagined without Russian salad, vinaigrette and other appetizers - it is in these cases that large cucumbers, prepared whole or cut into slices, come in handy.
Dimensional vegetables can be chopped on a grater and used as a sauce, filling for small cucumbers, or as a dressing for a pickle.
Overgrown cucumbers are boiled and stewed. They even make jam.
Prepare:
Before preparing large cucumbers for salads for the winter, they are washed and kept for 10 minutes in ice water. Then the liquids are allowed to drain, and the cucumbers themselves are cut into circles 0.5-1 cm thick or slices, cutting each half of the fruit into 2-3 parts.
Place the prepared vegetables in an enameled pan, salt, cover with cloth and leave for 10 hours.
Prepare the marinade: add salt and sugar to the water, boil, wait until they are completely dissolved. Filter through a double layer of cheesecloth. Let the solution boil again and pour vinegar into it.
Cut the dill and horseradish into pieces up to 5 cm, the onion into rings, chop the garlic not very finely.
Put horseradish and dill on the bottom of the jars, pour in the juice released during the infusion of cucumbers. Lay the chopped fruits, alternating them with prepared onions and garlic. Pour hot marinade over.
If you store the workpiece in the refrigerator, you can not sterilize. Simply seal with lids and refrigerate at room temperature.
Prepare:
Soak cucumbers in salted water for about a quarter of an hour. Peel off the skin and grate on a fine grater.
Grate horseradish on a grater with larger divisions, finely chop the pepper.
Mix chopped vegetables, salt, add peppercorns and seeds, mix, fill beautiful bottles with sauce. Let it stand at room temperature for a couple of days. Then store in the refrigerator.
You don't need a specific recipe for this dish.
Rinse the large cucumbers you have, peel, remove the damaged fragments. Divide in half and remove the seed part.
Cut the pulp into small pieces.
Fry in vegetable oil until transparent. Then add chopped vegetables to your taste (carrots, tomatoes, sweet peppers, zucchini), salt, pepper and do not forget about spicy greens.
Arrange the hot appetizer in jars and immediately roll up, cool at natural temperature and store in the refrigerator.
This dish can be served cold, but warming it is also appropriate.
Good day, my dear friends and readers! There is a need for another section. In it, I will share those useful tips, recipes that I have personally tested and give them my assessment. So I’ll call the rubric: “Checked personally.” This section will have something in common with the section “School of Needlework”, because everything that I will write about will be done by my own hands. And the first article for a new column is about overgrown cucumbers.
Very often, with a good harvest of cucumbers, housewives do not have time to process them. And they outgrow. The Internet is replete with advice on how to make salads for the winter from such cucumbers. Perhaps someone will need such recipes. I propose to think about beauty and about yourself. Therefore, my recipes will be about preparations for the winter, but not for food, but for beauty. And you'll learn how to use overgrown cucumbers for skin care all year round.
By the way, not only overgrown cucumbers are suitable for such purposes, but also soft ones that were not used in a timely manner and are waiting for their fate to go to waste. What can be done from overgrown cucumbers?
The simplest is cucumber masks. But how many cucumbers can be used for a mask? One two. And if you do something that can be used in the winter?
Making such a lotion is very simple, and the benefits of it are great.
Firstly: the product will not go to the trash, but will go into business. Second: homemade lotion keeps your hands warm. Thirdly: the lotion is a universal skin care product.
I prefer to store everything in a glass container. Unlike plastic, it does not absorb odors and does not give them to the product. My lotion will overflow from the can into the dark beer bottle.
Depending on the condition of the cucumbers, we decide whether to use them with or without the skin. I do it without the skin. I like it that way.
Such a lotion can be stored at room temperature and used to degrease the skin, treat small wounds, and treat insect bites. Treating the underarm area with this lotion helps to cope with increased sweating.
I have already made my lotion, but have not yet poured it into a bottle.
Making cucumber ice cubes is even easier than making lotion. Overripe and overgrown cucumbers, soft vegetables that have lost their gastronomic appeal, and freaks that are not suitable for conservation are used.
As you can see, we do not need anything supernatural.
You can strain the crushed raw materials and freeze pure juice. But I'm satisfied with the option with pulp.
Such cubes can be used to wipe the face and décolleté. Well tones and tightens the skin.
For ease of storage and use, I put bags of cubes in plastic containers and put them in the freezer. I take out one container at a time and put it in the freezer of the refrigerator so that the cubes are at hand.
After the preparation of the cubes, the cut out coarse seeds with the remnants of the pulp and cucumber skins remained. Let's put them to work - we'll make hydrolate water.
The process of preparing hydrolate water is well described in Irina Lukshits's blog in the article "How to make hydrolat at home".
I did everything as Irina wrote. Only instead of flowers I used the remains of cucumbers, formed during the manufacture of cubes.
At first I did as Irina writes and put a bag of chicken hearts on the lid. But they quickly melted away. Replaced them with wet towels. The process didn't get worse.
I didn't wrap it in foil. The steamer grate fits very tightly into the pot. And the lid is quite heavy and lay flat and well. It was convenient for me to control the process of preparing water. Maybe everything went faster with the foil, but I had nowhere to rush.
I did not take a photo of the boiled cucumbers, so that it was clear to what extent the process should be continued.
The last photo shows the finished hydrolat in a bowl. Yield - about 250 milliliters from three handfuls of waste.
Hydrolate water has a mild smell of cucumbers. It is very soft and very refreshing.
And if I’m talking about money on my blog, then I’ll make simple calculations now.
Good luck to all of us!
1. ROLLS FROM OVERGROWED CUCUMBERS.
For 1 kg of cucumbers: 50 g of dill, 20 g of tarragon, head of garlic, currant leaves, 15 g of salt.
Peel the cucumbers, cut along the fruit into 1 cm slices. Finely chop the dill, tarragon and garlic. Place the prepared plates in a saucepan for fermentation, sprinkling with herbs and salt. Set oppression on top and stand at room temperature for a day. Lay a layer of currant leaves on the bottom of the jars. Then, when the cucumber plates become soft, roll each one with greens and put it tightly in a jar. Cover the top of the rolls in the jar with currant leaves and pour brine, set oppression and store in a cold dark place.
2. "POINT CUCUMBERS"
Try it, you won't regret it: "POINT CUCUMBERS" For the marinade: 1 glass of sugar, 3 tbsp. l. salt, 1 glass of 9% vinegar and rast. oils, 1 tsp. black and allspice ground pepper, 2 tbsp. l. garlic (through the spadefoot), 2 tbsp. l. dry mustard or mustard seeds. For the marinade, combine all ingredients and mix well. Peel overripe cucumbers, cut into slices, semi rings onion. Mix everything with marinade, stand for 2 hours (stir every 30 minutes), Arrange in jars, pour marinade, sterilize (650g - 10 min., 1 l - 15 min.), Roll up, wrap, let cool. Store in a regular pantry. I add sliced carrots and cauliflower florets (if any) to this salad. Very tasty!
3. "HRENOVINA" FROM CUCUMBERS
Horseradish from cucumbers. all the same ingredients only instead of tomatoes - cucumbers. cucumbers are prepared like this - overripe ones are needed! cleaned from the peel and seeds. leaving only the "boat", so they rub it into the "crap". in winter they add a couple of teaspoons to any salad .. the aroma of mmmmmm, we did it in small containers ...
4. CUCUMBER CAVIAR
I am making cucumber caviar. for 1kg. (I definitely put in overripe ones, i.e. a little yellow, but that’s all. With them, the caviar is tastier checked) we clean it from the hard skin. 200 gr - onion mode in half rings. 300 gr - three carrots on a coarse grater. fry in oil. 2 pods of sweet pepper mode in small cubes 0.5 kg tomato - stew through a meat grinder for 40 minutes. 2st spoons of salt are laid out in sterilized jars. but in general, I twist everything in a meat grinder through a large reshotka in winter for meat dishes or pasta. you can also add pickle or hodgepodge to the soup, and even if you make dumplings yourself, try adding 2-3 tablespoons to the minced meat. really, really, this recipe will be delicious, I read it in the newspaper Our Kitchen a long time ago. and if I have exactly yellow cucumbers, then I definitely make this caviar, and from just green ones, the taste is a little different, I just advise you to add not a lot of yellow ones.
5. UNFEMALE OVERGROWN SALAD
And we have Nezhensky salad according to a different recipe: For 3 kg of cucumbers, we take 1 kg of onion, 1 glass of odorless sun oil, 2 tbsp. Spoons with a slide of salt, 1 cup of sugar, 0.5 tbsp. Spoons of ground black pepper, 1 cup of 9% vinegar. Bring the oil to a boil, pour the onion into it, cut into quarter rings, Saute for 1 minute, Add the cucumbers, cut into wheels or semi-wheels depending on the size, Bring to a boil, add salt, sugar, pepper and vinegar. Turn off, let it brew for a couple of hours. Then again bring to a boil, mix and put in jars washed with soda and doused with boiling water. Roll up, turn over and wrap. It turns out 4.5 liters. Enjoy your meal!
6. SECOND VARIANT OF SALAD NON-FEMALE
Salad "Nezhinskiy"
1.5 kg fresh cucumbers
750g onion
20g young dill
Wash cucumbers, cut small ones into circles, large ones - first along in half, then across. Onions - half rings. Add chopped dill. In the prepared half-liter jars, put 2-3 pieces of allspice and black (bitter) pepper, then lay the cucumbers (tightly), then onion, dill, 3/4 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. sugar, 2 tbsp. l. 6% vinegar, bay leaf. Fill each jar with boiling water. Cover jars with lids and leave for 20 minutes. After that, put in a saucepan and sterilize for about 10 minutes. The pot must be covered with a lid during sterilization. Roll up and leave to cool with the lids upside down.
7. SOLYANKA
Solyanka
600g fresh mushrooms (pieces)
1.5 kg fresh cucumbers (slices)
1.5 kg carrots (straws)
1.5 kg onion (semi-rings)
1.5 kg cabbage (straw)
2 kg tomatoes (slices)
0.5 kg sweet pepper (cubed)
1 l. vegetable oil
Yield - 10 liter jars (the portion is very large, it needs a large basin, so you can easily make half a serving or even a quarter. To do this, divide the ingredients proportionally)
Boil the oil, put the carrots, and boil for 5 minutes, then add the onion and boil for another 5 minutes. Next, add cabbage and 1 cup sugar. sand and cook for another 5 minutes. Then lay all the other components + 1 tbsp. l. vinegar, salt and ground pepper to taste. Simmer everything together for 30 minutes, stirring. Roll hot in hot jars, wrap in paper and roll in blankets (old coats), leaving to cool completely for several days. You can store in the pantry at room. temperature.
8. CUCUMBER TREATMENT
This year I want to make Lecho from cucumbers. One of the Smomochki gave a recipe, she did, said that it was a very tasty dish. And as an independent, and as a side dish for meat.
For such a lecho, cucumbers of various sizes are suitable, both overgrown and ugly in shape. Cucumbers can be cut into rings, cubes or quarters.
You will need:
Bulgarian pepper - 4 pcs,
cucumbers - 2.5 kg, tomatoes - 1.5 kg,
large carrots - 3 pcs,
hot pepper - 2 pcs,
garlic - 1 head,
vegetable oil - half a glass,
granulated sugar - half a glass,
vinegar essence - 1 tbsp. a spoon,
salt - 1 tbsp. a spoon.
Cooking:
Pass the tomatoes through a meat grinder. Peel the garlic, then pass through a meat grinder. Peel hot peppers, pass through a meat grinder.
Wash cucumbers, cut into slices. Wash the carrots, then grate on a coarse grater. Wash the bell pepper, free it from the seeds and cut into thin strips. Saute prepared bell peppers and carrots together for 15 minutes. Then mix with the rest of the pureed vegetables and cucumbers.
Add sunflower oil, salt, sugar, mix, put on fire and, stirring all the time, bring to a boil.
Now add the essence and cook over low heat for 30 minutes.
Pour hot cucumber lecho into jars to the top, roll up, turn over and cool.
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Today we will learn how to cook chopped cucumbers for the winter. When the fruits of such a well-known vegetable grow in our summer cottage, there is immediately concern about its preservation for the winter.
What could be easier, cut the fruits across or even into slices and load them into jars with fragrant spices. If the skin of the vegetable is tough, it can be cut off. Delicious brine will saturate the cells of the plant, as a result, the finished snack is already on the table.
When filling glass jars, it is imperative to observe the weight ratio between filling and vegetables. Store properly in a dry and dark place.
Find out a delicious recipe from beautiful cucumber slices that will not leave you indifferent.
Required products:
Cooking:
1. We twist the prepared tomatoes and peppers in a meat grinder.
2. Put the onion cut into small cubes in a large bowl with oil heated there. Fry the onion for 3-5 minutes.
3. Cut off the tips of fresh fruits and prepare chopped cucumbers, cutting each into 4 slices.
4. Add the missed tomatoes and peppers to the fried onions. Mix everything and boil for 15 minutes.
5. Then add salt, sugar, vinegar and boil, stirring, for 5 minutes.
6. Send sliced cucumbers to the tomato marinade.
7. Boil cucumbers until they change color.
8. The cucumber slices have changed their color, which means it's time to arrange them in sterilized jars. Harvesting for the winter in jars is ready.
The slices are spicy and very tasty. Try to cook, you will like it.
Products:
Cooking method:
1. For washed fruits, cut off the ends on both sides. The body of the fetus is cut lengthwise into 4 parts.
2. Add to finely chopped garlic: ground black pepper, salt, sugar, vinegar. vegetable oil.
3. We mix everything, the result is garlic sauce.
4. Pour garlic sauce to the cloves in a saucepan.
5. Hand mix sliced cucumbers with garlic sauce. We leave the fruits to marinate for 3 hours, stirring every 20 minutes.
6. Now you need to put the slices in sterile jars as tightly as possible. Pour the remaining brine into jars.
7. Put a towel on the bottom of the pan and put the jars covered with lids. Pour cold water so that it covers the jars by 2/3.
8. Put the pot with the jars on the fire. Bring the water in a saucepan to a boil and boil for exactly 10 minutes. If you have half-liter jars, then you only need to boil for 5 minutes.
9. Turn off the fire, take out the jars and roll up the lids.
Watch a video on how to prepare sliced fruits for the winter.
Ordinary mustard dissolved in cucumber juice along with black pepper gives an original taste.
The recipe can be safely called a salad for the winter and eaten with main courses as an additional side dish.
We will need:
Cooking:
1. Cooking cucumbers sliced \u200b\u200bin circles with a knife. If you have large diameter fruits, then cut the circle into two halves. There is always a way out.
2. Cut the onion into half rings.
3. To the cucumbers laid out in a bowl, add: onion, finely chopped garlic, salt, sugar, vegetable oil, vinegar.
4. All the resulting fragrant mass must now be mixed with your hands. We leave the contents of the basin for 3 hours at room temperature so that the cucumbers release the juice.
5. We put the bowl on the fire and, stirring, warm it up. When the marinade boils, reduce the heat and, stirring occasionally, boil the mass for 10-15 minutes. Please note that the circles have changed their color.
6. Turn off the fire and begin to spread the sliced \u200b\u200bcucumbers in sterile jars. For convenience, we put the jar on a plate.
7. Squeeze the circles slightly with a spoon so that they lie closer to each other. Pour the marinade on top, close the lid and roll up.
Watch a video on how to cook chopped cucumbers with onions and fragrant oil for the winter. It turns out very tasty when the fruits are with pimples.
At home, preparing for the winter is the responsibility of every housewife. The result is delicious food for winter lunches and dinners.
Harvesting for the winter from overgrown cucumbers.To begin with, you need to prepare everything, because. the preparation itself is done quickly.
5 kg cucumbers - wash, cut each in half first, then slices
2 kg tomato
1kg bulg pepper
2 heads of large garlic - through a crusher, or finely chopped
2 pcs hot pepper
Wash the tomatoes, peel the tails, wash the pepper too, peel, scroll the tomatoes in a meat grinder with bell and hot peppers
Put the tomato mass on the fire, immediately put in it
1 cup of sugar
1 cup rast. oils
2 tablespoons salt.
boil.
as soon as it boils, throw cucumbers in there, bring to a boil again, detect 3 minutes, this is so as not to overcook the cucumbers, and they remain a little crispy
add garlic - record 1 minute
add 3 tbsp. essences - mark 3 minutes.
turn everything off and immediately pour into hot jars. under a fur coat Do not turn)
Another way to put the yellows into action. In theory and in composition, it should turn out very tasty, and they are pickled here not with vinegar, but with citric acid, which also speaks as a fat plus to this preparation.
Peel the cucumbers from the peel and seeds, cut into thin strips or chop on a coarse grater.
Finely chop the prepared carrots, peppers and onions. Combine everything, add dill, salt, citric acid.
Lecho with cucumbers
Pass through a meat grinder 1.25 kg of tomatoes and 0.5 kg of sweet pepper, add 100 g of sugar, 100 g of 6% vinegar, 100 g of vegetable oil, 1.5 tbsp. tablespoons of salt (with a slide). Boil for 15 minutes, then lower 2.5 kg of cucumbers, cut into circles. Cook for another 10 minutes, add the head of garlic, crushed through a garlic press.
When hot, spread the lecho into prepared jars, roll up, wrap and leave until completely cooled.
Leave the vegetable mass for an hour so that the lemon juice stands out.
Then bring the vegetables to a boil and simmer over medium heat for 15 minutes.
Arrange the vegetable mass in sterilized jars and roll up with boiled lids.
Turn the jars over, wrap and let cool gradually.
Cucumber tongues....
2kg cucumbers
1l of water
1h l lemon to-you
5 carnations
5 peas fragrant and black pepper
5 tbsp sugar
3 tsp salt
My cucumbers, peel, cut lengthwise into plates 2 cm thick, remove the seeds, put in a saucepan.
Dissolve lemon in water, sugar, salt + cloves, pepper ... Bring to a boil, pour cucumbers with brine and leave for 10 minutes ... Transfer cucumbers to jars and pour THIS same brine, sterilize for 30 minutes, roll up ..
Salad "Kruglyashki" .
3 kg of cucumbers, 5-7 large onions, preferably purple varieties, a bunch of dill, 4 tablespoons of sugar, 1 glass of vegetable oil (150 g can be used), 1 glass of 9% vinegar, 100 g of salt.
Cucumbers cut into slices, onion rings (0.5 mm), finely chop the dill. Put the products in a saucepan, add salt, sugar, oil and vinegar. Let stand for 5 hours (stirring occasionally), then decompose into 0.5-0.7 liter pre-steamed jars, sterilize for 15 minutes, roll up, wrap.
"Fingers".
Cucumbers (2 kg) cut into pieces - “fingers”, and cucumbers can be taken and overripe, you just need to peel them and remove the seeds, put them in a cup. Chop the onion into half rings (300g, purple varieties) and grate the carrots (300g) on a Korean grater (you can finely chop or cut into circles with a special corrugated knife) ..
Put vegetables in cucumbers. Add 1.5 tbsp to a cup. top with salt, 0.5 cup sugar, 1 cup odorless vegetable oil, 0.5 cup 6% vinegar. Boil the mixture after boiling for 10 minutes. Roll into pre-steamed jars. Wrap up.
Salad "Nezhenskiy"
In jars of 0.5 l, previously thoroughly washed, fold
onion, cut into half rings,
half a bay leaf
peppercorns 5 pcs.
allspice 2 pcs.
garlic - 1 clove, chopped
cloves (if you like)
cucumbers, cut into rings,
on top again onion rings
Add to each jar
Sugar - 2 teaspoons (heaped)
Salt - 1 teaspoon (with a small slide)
Vinegar 9% - 2 tbsp. spoons
Pour boiling water over, cover with lids and let stand for 20 minutes (however you are in a hurry, this time must be kept so that the cucumbers turn out to be tender and crispy). Sterilize for 15 minutes, roll up, if in doubt, you can cover with a terry towel until it cools, but my jars are already stored perfectly without a basement.
Overgrown Cucumber Salad...
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Cut 4 kg of cucumbers into circles, add 1 glass of sugar, 1/4 tbsp. salt (40g.), 1 tbsp. vegetable oils, 1 tbsp. vinegar (9%), 1 tbsp. ground black pepper, 3 cloves of garlic (on a fine grater), herbs (optional), usually dill and parsley (dill seeds are also put 2 tbsp) ...
Mix everything and leave for 4 hours. Next, put in jars (0.5 l.), Sterilize for 15 minutes and roll up. ALL!!!
Cucumbers "Lick your fingers" ...
4 kg cucumbers cut lengthwise
100 gr. salt
1 cup sugar
1 stack oil
1 cup vinegar
2 tbsp of black peppercorns (crushed in a mortar) NOT GROUND!!! There may be both crushed and whole ones, it's okay.
2 tbsp grated garlic
1 heaping teaspoon of dry mustard
You put everything in a basin, mix it and stand for 3-4 hours. All this gives a lot of brine.
Put tightly in sterilized jars, fill with brine. Put in hot water and sterilize for 5-7 minutes after boiling. Roll up (you can under a blanket).
DO NOT TURN BANKS!!!
chopped cucumbers in their own juice
Ingredients
Fresh cucumbers 4 kg.
granulated sugar 1 tbsp.
vegetable oil 1 tbsp.
table vinegar 1 tbsp.
1/3 st. salt
1 large bunch of parsley and dill
4 medium onions
Cooking method
Cut cucumbers into rings, onions into half rings, finely chop the greens.
Mix everything, add sugar, salt, vinegar and vegetable oil. Leave for two hours for the cucumbers to give juice. After that, the salad can already be eaten, but if you want to make preparations for the winter, then ...
Prepare jars, wash and sterilize them. For this number of cucumbers, approximately 4 pieces will be required. 700-800 ml.
Arrange the appetizer in jars and sterilize, after boiling, keep on fire for 5 minutes. Twist the jar, turn it over and put it in a warm blanket for the night.
"Cucumbers" Fly away "
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