Canned cucumbers in tomato juice - an ornament of any festive table.

Vegetable twists and pickles - a great snack,without which no feast is complete. If many years ago, vegetable pickles were prepared in barrels, filling them with brine, then modern lovers of winter preparations prefer glass jars, which are covered with tin lids. And the recipe for canning has been significantly replenished with new ways of stocking up for the future.

No exception will be billet of cucumbers -pretty popular vegetable crop. Traditional salting in oak tubs is increasingly being replaced by canned food in glass jars. Not only brine and marinade, but also tomato juice are used as fill.

Tomato cucumbers are cooked in several ways.Salting with the use of tomato for quick use is prepared in three-liter jars. For such a volume, one and a half kilograms of cucumbers, one and a half liters of freshly prepared tomato juice, sixty grams of table salt, five teeth of garlic, a small bunch of fresh dill and a small sprig of tarragon will be required. Fingered and washed cucumbers fill a clean steamed jar. Tomato boil, adding salt, herbs and garlic. With a cold fill, fill a jar of vegetables and cork with a plastic cap. For five days, cucumbers in tomato juice infuse in the refrigerator. Tomato juice and spices make vegetables taste great. Cucumbers in tomato juice, prepared in this way, are unsuitable for long-term storage.

Cucumbers in tomato juice for the winter is prepared in the waysterilization. Vegetables for long-term storage are prepared in three-liter jars. On one container take two kilograms of fresh cucumbers, one or one and a half liters of freshly prepared tomato, salt and sugar, thirty grams each. Greens will be useful in this preparation. It is enough to put on three sprigs of tarragon, dill and celery. In order to spice up, add spices and garlic. It is enough to put six peas of pepper and several bay leaves on the jar.

If you reduce the number of spices, cucumbers in tomato juice will be less sharp.

The method of preparation of the workpiece is quite simple. Vegetables are carefully washed and lightly dried. Before laying on the bottom of the jar is placed spicy herbs and whole garlic, after which the container is filled with cucumbers.

Томат доводят до кипения.Sugar, salt and spices are added to the boiling pot. Prepared cans of vegetables are poured with boiled juice. Cover the jars with lids, place them in a container for sterilization. The sterilization time of three-liter cans is twenty minutes. Sterilized, the banks immediately sealed, then turn them down the neck. In the inverted position, they remain until cool.

Cucumbers in tomato juice, unlike traditionalpickled or pickled vegetables, have a spicy taste. The advantage of such vegetable blanks is that, in addition to the excellent crunchy cucumbers, it turns out tomato sauce, which can be used to make all kinds of sauces.