У владельцев дачных и приусадебных участков There are always a lot of problems: cucumbers overgrown or fog spoiled the harvest of tomatoes. But there are no hopeless situations, and each product can always be used.
Cucumbers in cucumbers
Каждый огородник знает, что за грядками нужен constant care Plants need to be watered and periodically select ripe fruits. If you do not do this, then one day you can see the following picture: the tomatoes turned dark, the cabbage withered, and the cucumbers overgrown. Of course, a pitiful sight. But even then, do not lose heart. Any product can be found worthy use. There are lots of ways that allow you to save or procure for the future, even overripe specimens. For example, if cucumbers really overgrown, then it is better to preserve them in their own juice. This will require: 5 large overripe fruits, 0.5 cups of peeled garlic cloves and horseradish root.
The work takes place in several stages:
- First, overgrown cucumbers should be peeled, and then grind them into a mush using a meat grinder.
- Do the same with garlic and horseradish.
- Combine products, add salt and mix well.
- Put vegetable mass on the bottom of sterilized cans.
- Then place smaller cucumbers. If necessary, they can be cut into pieces.
- Fill the free space with the remaining cucumber mixture and cover with a plastic cap.
Store these vegetables better in the basement. Cucumbers taste very similar to the barrel.
Canned semi-finished products
Of course, no one wants cucumbers on the bedsoutgrown. But if it really happened, then do not be upset. The farm is all good. Of bellied yellows, by the way, can make an excellent addition for pickle. Why waste young crispy cucumbers? It is better to use unattractive overgrowths for this. For such blanks will need:
- kilogram of large cucumbers,
- 25 grams of salt
- garlic head,
- half a teaspoon of lemon,
- 200 grams of carrots and onions,
- 50 grams of tarragon.
Preparation takes very little time:
- Wash cucumbers, peel them, and cut the flesh into small cubes or strips.
- Process carrots in the same way.
- Chop onion and garlic as little as possible.
- Products collected in a deep pan. Pour salt, citric acid and leave for an hour.
- After that, heat the mass on the stove for 15 minutes.
- Put the hot mixture in the jars and cork.
Such a product can be an excellent basis for vegetable sauces or a variety of soups.
Vegetable "stew"
If the farm has overgrown cucumbers, recipesyou can come up with the most unexpected. Indeed, in the right hands any products can turn into a real yummy. Take, for example, a salad that requires:
- carrot,
- Bell pepper,
- bow,
- tomatoes,
- cucumbers,
- greenery,
- vegetable oil,
- salt and a little ground pepper.
Cooking process:
- Cut the big cucumbers in half lengthwise and remove all the seeds, and cut the dough into pieces. Chop the crushed product in oil in a deep frying pan.
- The remaining vegetables, too, cut into small pieces and add to the cucumbers. It is necessary to simmer until each of the products is fully prepared.
- Hot mix prepackaged on the banks and roll up.
After cooling, they can be stored even withroom temperature. On the taste, no one will even say that these are overgrown cucumbers. Recipes will differ only in the composition of the original components. To the table such a dish can be served in two ways. When cold, it is a juicy vegetable salad. If the mixture is heated, you get a wonderful side dish.
Interesting options
The hostesses often have to make blanks fromovergrown cucumbers. After all, the surprises of nature are hard to predict. So you have to find a way out. For example, make a salad in Korean style. It is very simple if you have at hand:
- 3 kilograms of cucumbers,
- on 1 kilogram of carrots and sweet pepper,
- 3 large heads of garlic
- half a kilo of onions,
- 60 grams of salt
- 125 grams of sugar
- a quarter of a kilo of burning adzhika,
- 120 grams of vinegar,
- half a cup of vegetable oil.
Cooking such a dish should be strictly in steps:
- First, cut off the peel from cucumbers. Then, with a knife, divide them into two parts and carefully remove the core with the seeds. The remaining "boats" cut into thin strips.
- Do the same with peppers.
- Onions cut into half rings, skip the garlic through the crush and chop the carrots on a special grater.
- Combine the products, add the remaining ingredients, a glass of cold water and leave for two hours.
- Then decompose the mixture into banks and sterilize in a water bath for 15 minutes.
- At the last stage, harvesting of overgrown cucumbers should be rolled up.
Cucumber caviar
People often, not knowing what to make of overgrowncucumbers, just throw them out. But such waste is completely unjustified. In the right hands, such a product can be transformed simply beyond recognition. There is a recipe by which you can cook an original dish, and no one will distinguish it from the famous squash caviar. You will need some basic products:
- kilogram of cucumbers,
- 2 garlic cloves,
- bulb,
- one and a half teaspoons of ground paprika,
- 1 carrot,
- ½ teaspoon of sugar and apple cider vinegar,
- salt,
- 50 grams of vegetable oil.
Caviar is cooked quickly:
- Peel the cucumbers and then remove all the seeds from them. They only spoil the taste. Grate the remaining pulp using a large grater.
- On the same grater, chop the carrot and then finely chop the onion with a knife. Both vegetables for 15 minutes to fry in oil.
- Cucumber mass squeeze, and then add to the pan. Mass with constant stirring simmer another 40 minutes.
- 10 minutes before the end to enter the remaining components.
- Transfer the mixture to a blender and turn it into a homogeneous mass.
Now it can be used as a snack or warm slightly, and then rolled up in prepared jars.
Salty "giants"
Large overgrown cucumbers somehow not acceptedpickle. Have not yet come up with such banks. But not so simple. Salting overgrown cucumbers is a separate issue that needs special attention. It is clear that they will not fit entirely in banks. Therefore, it is better to make them original rolls. The ingredients will require the most common:
- 1 kilo of huge cucumbers,
- half a liter of water
- garlic head,
- 3 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar,
- 20 leaves of currant,
- salt,
- greens (50 grams of dill and 20 grams of tarragon).
To cook such a dish is very interesting:
- First, cucumbers should be freed from hard peels, and the rest cut into thin slices.
- Chop greens with garlic randomly.
- Lay cucumbers and garlic with chopped greens on the bottom of a wide dish in alternate layers. Cover gently with a currant leaf and pour salt solution on it.
- Put a plate on top and set the oppression.
- The construction put in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
- Tomorrow you can begin salting. To do this, first put currant leaves on the very bottom of each jar.
- Cucumbers with greens roll in the form of rolls.
- Tightly put them in the banks.
- Strain the brine, boil it, and then fill all the free space with hot liquid.
Such preservation is best kept in a cold place under the capron covers. With boiled potatoes such rolls - just lovely.
