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

Canning cabbage, tomatoes and cucumbersincludes a wide variety of recipes. Knowing them, each woman can provide her family with tasty and healthy vegetable dishes for the whole winter. In this article we will talk about cucumbers.

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If you are attracted to pickled cucumbers,crispy, then past such a recipe, you obviously will not pass. Especially if you consider that in every jar you can put literally all the vegetables from your garden, and the resulting assortment will please fans of home canning. In different quantities (how many), prepare (wash, cut tails, peduncles) small cucumbers, dense tomatoes (red, preferably “cream” or small round), bell pepper, young squash or squash (or both), greens (parsley, dill, celery). Tomatoes can be spiked, so as not to boil soft during sterilization. Zucchini with squash patrols for about 5 minutes to soften, but after that cool.

На дно банок, лучше 3-литровых, положите пару cloves of garlic, a few peas of allspice, horseradish leaves, cherries - thanks to them, your pickled cucumbers will be crispy, like squash with summer squash. For the best taste and flavor of canned food, add the umbrellas of dill, fresh or dried. On the spice vertically lay the cucumbers, the next layer of squash, then - pepper and tomatoes. Put celery, parsley, etc. between the layers. Fill the jars completely.

Now pouring, which refuels tomatoes, zucchini and pickled cucumbers, crispy.

On a liter jar it consumes about 400 grams., 3-liter, respectively, 1.2 liters. On 1 liter of liquid in marinade goes: sugar - 75-80 gr. (3 with top tablespoons), salt - 25-30 gr. (1 spoon), 10 gr. citric acid (instead of vinegar). The mixture should boil for 3 minutes, then pour the vegetables with it, put the jars in a water bath and sterilize for half an hour. Then, as usual, roll, turn, wrap, leave to cool. After a month and a half, reach for pickled cucumbers, marinated, crispy, to fried potatoes and eat with pleasure!

Cucumbers Nezhin

Many mistresses know that not all varietiescucumbers are equally suitable for whole preservation. It is necessary to take for these purposes small vegetables, not overripe, hard, with small seeds. It has long been famous for Nezhin, Murom, Vyazniki - it is from them that the most delicious crispy pickled cucumbers are obtained. The recipe of their preparation is designed for 5 liter cans. At the same time, the vegetables themselves are about 3 kg, vinegar (6%) - half a liter, salt and sugar - 100 g each. As spices for the marinade are used cherry leaves, bay leaves (several pieces per jar), hot pepper and a handful of allspice.

If you like a carnation, put it in and drop it - a few inflorescences in each container. Don't forget about garlic.

Огурцы вымойте, замочите на несколько часов в very cold water - they will become harder, stronger. Trim the tails of both sides. At the bottom of the cans, put the spices and leaves, be sure - dill. Fill them with vegetables, pour marinade, boil for 15 minutes. You can prepare such tasty crunchy pickled cucumbers of two types: with slightly acidic filling (700 grams of water, 200 grams of vinegar (6%), 35 grams of salt, 80 - sugar) and pouring saturated (water take 400 grams., Vinegar - liter, sugar 120-130 gr.). After sterilization, the banks are rolled up and left to cool.

We hope our recipes come in handy - good luck in the culinary field!