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Cucumbers can not only be salted, pickled, but also delicious salads can be prepared from them. The piquancy of such blanks is given by the special crunch of cucumbers, which must certainly be preserved. There are many options for harvesting cucumbers for the winter. There are recipes with and without can sterilization.
Today we will show you how to prepare a spicy cucumber salad for the winter with various additional ingredients. We advise you to make several sample jars in order to choose the option that suits your family the most.
Useful Tips
Every housewife dreams that her conservation will be stored all winter. There are several secrets that will help you get rid of "explosions" in a peaceful kitchen:
- Never use iodized salt to make salads from cucumbers and other vegetables. It is because of her that the preservation begins to ferment, the vegetables soften, the lids swell. The contents of these jars are hazardous to health.
- The size of the cucumbers will depend on the conditions described in the recipe. For some salads, delicate cucumbers are chosen, for others, overgrown with seeds are also suitable. But all the same, the preservation turns out to be fragrant and tasty.
- For storage in a cellar, basement or refrigerator, cucumber snacks do not need to be sterilized. But if salads prepared for the winter will stand in the closet in the kitchen, then we recommend that you carry out this procedure.
And now we proceed directly to the recipes for a spicy cucumber salad for the winter.
Variations on a theme
We bring to your attention several options for salads with cucumbers for the winter. Moreover, even the ingredients will be required different. We advise you to cook cucumber salads in small portions according to different recipes. Imagine what a variety of snacks you will have in winter. Every time a new delicious salad!
Amazing salad
This name was given to the salad after the first try by family members. They spoke one word with one voice - amazing. Preparing a spicy cucumber salad for the winter is simple, does not require sterilization. It can be eaten cold and hot, used as a side dish or as an independent dish. Spicy cucumbers with black bread are especially good.
We take vegetables by kilogram:
- cucumbers (any size);
- ripe fleshy tomatoes;
- sweet bell peppers of different colors;
- onion;
- a few cloves of garlic;
- vegetable oil - 1 glass;
- salt and black pepper (red or black) to taste;
- vinegar essence - 1 tablespoon
If you eat right away, then do without this seasoning, and use it for winter.
Cooking method
- Thoroughly rinse vegetables for piquant cucumber salad with cold water. If there is no running water, we change the water several times. We put them on a napkin to dry.
- Cut the cucumbers on both sides and cut: thin - into circles, thick - half rings. In tomatoes, remove the place where the stalk is attached. You do not need to peel the skin. Gut bell peppers, remove seeds and partitions. Rinse again. Peel the garlic and onion. Cut vegetables for the salad for the winter in half rings into separate cups. Tomato slices.
- Put the cucumbers in a saucepan, salt and pepper, leave for a quarter of an hour until the juice appears.
- We spread onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, pour oil. Mix gently. Let it stand for another ten minutes and put it on the stove, covering the salad with spicy cucumbers with a lid. From the moment of boiling, cook the salad for no more than 25 minutes. Pour vinegar, put chopped garlic and simmer for another 5 minutes.
A spicy salad for the winter with an amazing cucumber taste is ready. Arrange in sterile jars, roll up with screw or tin lids, turn upside down and wrap. After a day, remove to any cool place.
Spicy salad
To prepare a spicy salad of piquant cucumbers for the winter, stock up on:
- cucumbers - 1 kg 300 g;
- carrots - 0.4 kg;
- bell peppers - 2 pieces of medium size;
- ripe tomatoes - 1 kg 500 g;
- onions - 2 large heads;
- salt - 5 teaspoons;
- sugar - 2 teaspoons;
- ground black pepper - 1.5 teaspoons;
- sunflower oil (refined) - 300 ml;
- vinegar essence - 1.5 teaspoons.
How to cook
First, for a delicious cucumber salad, prepare all the vegetables, rinse thoroughly.
Peel the carrots, cut into thin strips.
Peeled and washed onions - diced.
Shred sweet bell peppers of different colors in half rings.
Cut off the nose and butt from the cucumbers, cut them into rings, half rings or cubes, as you like.
Grate prepared tomatoes for spicy cucumber salad on a coarse grater. Tomatoes should be meaty. We start at the top of the head. The peel and the place for the stalk remain in the hands. And in a cup - tomato paste. Pour the mass into a saucepan, adding a quarter of a glass of cold water, and place on the stove. From the moment of boiling, simmer the tomatoes for no more than 10 minutes.
First, put carrots, onions and bell peppers, salt, sugar, sunflower oil, black ground pepper in the boiling tomato mass. Cook for a quarter of an hour. Then pour in the cucumbers. We simmer for no more than 5 minutes. Add vinegar and after five minutes remove the pan from the stove, transfer the salad with spicy cucumbers into ready-made jars. We roll it up, put it on the lids and under the fur coat. We put it away for storage after the salad has cooled completely.
Cucumbers in tomato paste
This option is generally gorgeous. After all, there is often no time to look into a cucumber greenhouse, the fruits outgrow and even turn yellow. And there is nowhere to throw the cucumbers, and it's a pity. Strictly speaking, there is no need to do this. Spicy cucumbers are just made from "overgrown".
What is required for the salad:
- cucumbers - 4.5 kg;
- garlic - 2 large heads;
- granulated sugar - 1 glass;
- refined sunflower oil - 1 glass;
- clean water - 1 glass;
- tomato paste - 1 liter;
- not iodized salt - 2 tablespoons;
- vinegar 70% - 1 tablespoon.
This is perhaps the easiest and simplest recipe for a spicy cucumber salad.
Cut the washed and dried cucumbers first into strips and then into small cubes.
Remove outer clothing from garlic, and then a transparent film from each clove. Grind it with a garlic press.
Put the cucumbers in a large flat basin, add water, granulated sugar, salt, tomato paste, sunflower oil. Gently mix everything so as not to violate the integrity of the cucumber slices and put on the stove. First, a strong fire. After boiling, reduce the temperature to a minimum, boil the salad for 10 minutes.
We fall asleep chopped garlic, pour out the vinegar. Cook for 10 minutes and immediately put it in clean sterile jars. It can be rolled up with turnkey screw or tin covers.In an inverted form, under a fur coat, we leave jars of delicious salad until it cools completely.
Such a blank is stored for the winter perfectly even on the lower shelf of the kitchen cabinet. A spicy cucumber salad with boiled potatoes or meat is very good. Enjoy your meal.
Nezhinsky
Are the cucumbers overripe and you don't know what to do with them? Feel free to pluck them and carry them to the kitchen. We will process, make another simple spicy salad for the winter.
So, we need:
- 4 kg of cucumbers;
- 3 kg of onions;
- 4 large spoons of salt, not iodized;
- 200 ml of 9% table vinegar;
- 60 grams of a mixture of allspice and black peppercorns;
- a glass of vegetable oil.
This recipe is long lasting and takes about two hours to complete. But the ready-made savory snack is worth it.
Cooking steps
- We wash the vegetables. Cut off the tips from the cucumbers and cut them as we please: into rings, half rings, cubes.
- Peel the onion, rinse with cold water. According to the recipe, cut this vegetable into half rings.
- Combine the slices in a large flat bowl, sugar, salt, add allspice and black pepper. Stir the vegetables with your hands so as not to crush the vegetables.
- We cover the basin with a lid. We do not touch vegetables for half an hour. During this time, the cucumbers will be saturated with salt and sugar, and will give juice.
- We put the dish on the stove at the highest temperature. As soon as the vegetables boil, switch to low heat and simmer the cucumber and onion salad for another 10 minutes.
- Pour out the vegetable oil (it is better to use refined oil, but amateurs can take ordinary fragrant oil) and table vinegar. Increase the temperature again. When boiling, reduce to a minimum. During cooking, cucumbers settle to the bottom, so in order to avoid burning the mass, the snack must be constantly stirred.
While our snack was being cooked, the jars and lids were sterilized. After all, you need to lay out the vegetable preparation for the winter immediately in hot jars. After rolling, turn them over and wrap them up.
We put the cooled jars for storage in a dark and cool place.
Conclusion
As you can see, you can always find a use for cucumbers. You should not be limited only to pickles and marinades. Cucumber salads are always tasty and aromatic. Due to the fact that heat treatment is limited in time, useful trace elements and vitamins are preserved in vegetables.
The cucumber itself, like the additional ingredients, is low in calories. Therefore, a cucumber snack is an excellent option for including it in a diet for weight loss. Spending a little time, you will provide your family with all kinds of pickles for the whole winter.
