Delicious homemade preparations: cucumbers pickled, crunchy for the winter!

Preservation of cabbage, tomatoes and cucumbers includes a variety of recipes. Knowing them, each hostess can provide the family with delicious and healthy vegetable dishes for the whole winter. In this article we will talk about cucumbers.

Assorted «Funny garden»

If you are attracted pickled cucumbers, crispy, then by this recipe you obviously will not pass. Especially when you consider that you can put literally all the vegetables from your garden in each bank, and the resulting assortment will please lovers of home conservation. In different quantities (how many are) prepare small cucumbers, dense tomatoes (red, better "cream" or small round ones), Bulgarian pepper, young patissons or zucchini (or both), Greens (parsley, dill, celery). Tomatoes can ponadkalyvat not to boil off during sterilization. Squash with squash try to minutes 5 to become softer, but then cool.

At the bottom of the cans, better than 3-liter, put a pair of garlic cloves, a few peas of fragrant pepper, horseradish leaves, cherries - thanks to them you will get your pickled cucumbers crispy, like zucchini with squash. For a better taste and aroma of canned food, be sure to add parasols of dill, fresh or dried. On the spices, lay cucumbers vertically, the next layer of squash, then pepper and tomatoes. Between the layers put celery sprigs, parsley, etc. Fill the jars completely.

Now the fill, which is filled with tomatoes, zucchini and cucumber pickled, crunchy. On the liter bank it is spent about 400 gr., On 3-liter, accordingly, 1,2 l. For 1 liter of liquid in the marinade is: sugar - 75-80 gr. (3 with top tablespoons), salt - 25-30 gr. (1 spoonful), 10 gr. Citric acid (instead of vinegar). The mixture should boil for 3 minutes, then fill it with vegetables, put the jars on a water bath and sterilize for half an hour. Then, as usual, roll, turn, wrap, let cool. Month after one and a half get tomatoes, cucumbers, pickled, crispy, to fried potatoes and weave with pleasure!

Cucumbers are Nezhin

Many housewives know that not all cucumber varieties are equally suitable for conservation as a whole. It is necessary to take for these purposes vegetables small, not overgrown, hard, with small seeds. For a long time the Nezhin, Murom, and Visnyk are famous - it is from these that they make delicious crispy pickled cucumbers. The recipe for their preparation is designed for 5 liter cans. At the same time vegetables themselves are about 3 kg, vinegar (6%) - half a liter, salt and sugar - 100 gr. As a spice for the marinade, cherry leaves, laurel leaves (several pieces per jar), a pod of hot pepper and a handful of fragrant. If you like a carnation, fill it with - several inflorescences in each container. Do not forget about garlic.

Cucumbers wash, soak for a few hours in very cold water - they will become harder, stronger. Cut off their tails on both sides. At the bottom of the cans put spices and leaves, be sure - dill. Fill them with vegetables, pour the marinade, boil for 15 minutes. You can prepare such tasty crispy pickled cucumbers in two types: with slightly acidic filling (700 g of water, 200 g of vinegar (6%), 35 g of salt, 80 grams of sugar) and saturated (take 400 g of water, vinegar -liter, sugar 120-130 gr.). After sterilization, the cans are rolled up and left to cool.

We hope that our recipes are useful to you - good luck in the culinary field!