Hunter's salad with cucumbers: recipes for the winter

Preparing a Hunter cucumber salad for the winter at home means providing the family with a tasty and healthy vegetable snack. This bright dish with characteristic sweet and sour notes can be either independent or an addition to other side dishes and hot dishes.

The salad looks very beautiful, colorful and vibrant.

Cooking features

The main advantage of this snack is its simplicity and the ability to prepare it for future use. To make a hunting salad with fresh cucumbers for the winter, you will need the usual vegetables and spices. Traditionally, in addition to cucumbers, the composition includes carrots, cabbage, onions, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, but other options are also possible.

The main ingredient in the salad is cucumber. For this snack, it is quite possible to take overgrown specimens, most importantly, without rot. You can remove large, tough seeds from these and remove the thick skin with a vegetable peeler. But from the young, the hunting salad will definitely be tastier and more attractive. Medium-sized fruits with small seeds are best suited for salads.

There are several ways to cut cucumbers:

1. Circles. Suitable for small vegetables. You can cut diagonally to get an oval shape.
2. Half circles. Method for large cucumbers.
3. Cubes. First, they are cut into circles (1-2 cm) and each of them is divided into identical squares.
4. Slices. Along in 2 or 4 parts, then across (1-2 cm).
5. With straws. In circles or ovals 2 mm thick, fold them in a stack of several pieces, then thinly along.
6. Lobules. First, cylinders 3-5 cm high, then 4-8 parts lengthwise.
7. Bars. Cut in half lengthwise, put the skin upside down and cut into cubes of the desired thickness. Their length can be arbitrary, depending on the type of dish.

If you follow simple rules, the appetizer will succeed wonderfully, it will be stored for a long time and will delight you all winter:

1. Late varieties of vegetables that have reached maturity are well suited for hunting salad. It is necessary to pay attention to their quality: to reject spoiled or rotten ones. Although many housewives believe that one of the advantages of this harvest is that you can use slightly spoiled vegetables by cutting off the unusable areas. Another plus - green tomatoes will also go into this salad, which sometimes have nowhere to apply.
2. You can cut vegetables arbitrarily - as you like. It is believed that cabbage looks more spectacular if it is finely chopped. Carrots can be cut in different ways: into slices, small strips, or grated using a coarse grater. Sweet pepper looks good in the form of large straws, but there are lovers of half rings or small squares. The bow looks beautiful in half rings. It is better not to chop the tomatoes finely and lay them last, so that they do not lose their shape during heat treatment.
3. Cooking is not long - so the appetizer will be fresh, more useful elements will be preserved.
4. It is not recommended to make a hunting salad with cucumbers in an enamel bowl.
5. The container is used whole (without cracks, chips) and without rusty stripes on the neck. It must first be steamed and kept in the oven.

There are many ways to make this appetizer. There is a recipe for a hunting salad for the winter without cucumbers, for example, with zucchini, eggplants.

Further, the recipes for the popular preparation for future use.

Simple Hunter's salad with cucumbers

You will need a kilogram of cucumbers, onions, red carrots and tomatoes, as well as 1.5 kg of white cabbage without stalk and top leaves.

Cooking method:

1. Chop the forks, after removing the top sheets.
2. Cut cucumbers into slices or strips, turn onions into rings.
3. Remove the peel from the tomatoes, after cutting them and holding them in boiling water for a couple of minutes, followed by lowering them into cold water. Cut into large cubes.
4. Grate the peeled carrots on a special salad grater or cut into thin strips.
5. Put the prepared vegetables in a saucepan, pour in 250 ml of unrefined sunflower oil, mix gently.
6. Keep on low heat until boiling, then put 200 g of sugar, 80 g of coarse salt, stir and cook for half an hour.
7. Pour in 150 ml of table vinegar, simmer over low heat for 5 minutes.
8. Fill steamed jars with hot salad. Roll up or tighten with threaded caps.

Cool, then send to the pantry for the winter

Classic Hunter salad with cucumbers

You will need a kilogram of white cabbage, cucumbers, onions, carrots and sweet peppers, as well as 3 kg of tomatoes. From the proposed amount, 7 liters of finished products will be obtained. White and purple bulbs will not work, it is better to take the usual yellow, which is considered universal.

Cooking method:

1. Take roomy dishes for vegetables.
2. Grind the washed and peeled vegetables. Carrots and cucumbers - in circles (or halves of circles), onions and peppers - in halves or quarters of rings, tomatoes in quarters of circles, chop the cabbage thinly.
3. Put in order: carrots down, then cabbage, half-rings of onions, cucumbers, then peppers and lastly tomatoes. Do not mix, do not break the layers.
4. Then send it to the fire.
5. Prepare the filling: pour spices into a mixture of 250 ml of vegetable oil and 150 ml of vinegar: a glass of sugar, 90 g of salt, 5 bay leaves, 10 black peppercorns.
6. As soon as the contents of the dish begin to boil, add the cooked marinade. Cook after the next boil for 5 minutes.
7. Heat the glass container.
8. Be sure to put the finished hunting salad hot in clean jars, cover with lids, sterilize for 5-10 minutes.
9. Cool under the blanket, glue tags with the names and date of harvesting, remove to the cellar or closet before winter.

Salad is served as a side dish

Hunter's salad with cucumbers and bell pepper

You will need a kilogram of cucumbers, white cabbage, onions, carrots, as well as 1.5 kg of bell pepper (preferably red or yellow).

Cooking method:

1. First of all, the ingredients are cut: pepper in halves of rings, cabbage in thin strips, onions in small cubes, cucumbers in slices, 10 cloves of garlic in slices. Carrots are traditionally rubbed.
2. Chopped vegetables are sent to the pan, 2-3 bay leaves are thrown, 2 tbsp. l. sugar, to taste of ground pepper, 1.5 tbsp. l. salt. Pour in 150 ml of vinegar and 250 ml of vegetable oil.
3. Boil, be sure to cover, simmer for 20 minutes.
4. Arrange the hunting salad in a prepared container and twist for the winter.

Cool under a blanket, send for storage

Hunter's salad with cucumbers and green tomatoes

Prepare 200 g of fresh cucumbers, green tomatoes, bell peppers, as well as 1 onion, 100 g of carrots and 300 g of white cabbage.

Cooking method:

1. Rinse vegetables and dry. Remove the partitions from the pepper and shake out the seeds, remove the husk from the onion, cut off the top layer from the carrots or scrape off with a knife, peel the garlic.
2. Cut green tomatoes into cubes, cucumbers and carrots into strips, Bulgarian pepper in small squares or cubes, a clove of garlic in thin slices, chop the cabbage.
3. Place vegetables in a suitable bowl and season with salt to taste. Leave to infuse for 1 hour.
4. Put the pan on the fire, bring to a boil, but do not cook. Pour in 2 tbsp. l. sunflower oil and vinegar, mix gently.
5. Arrange the finished snack in jars, sterilize for 10 minutes. Roll up, wrap up overturned containers with something warm, let cool. Keep in a closet or basement until winter.

Salad with green tomatoes will complement well boiled potatoes

Hunter's salad with cucumbers and rice

Thanks to rice, the appetizer turns out to be satisfying. You will need 250 g of boiled basmati rice, one cucumber, green onions and dill to taste.

Ingredients:

Cooking method:

1. Boil rice. Basmati is best suited for salads due to its crispness. Pour the groats into a saucepan, pour in boiling water (take 2 times more), salt to taste. Put on fire, pour in 1 tbsp. l. butter, keep the flame to a minimum, cook for a maximum of 15 minutes, covered. Wait for the rice to cool completely before proceeding to the next steps.
2. In the meantime, prepare the sauce. Combine two tablespoons each of olive oil and lemon juice, add a pinch of pepper and salt each and stir.
3. Cut the cucumber first into circles, then into strips. Chop the dill and green onions. Pour all this with cooked sauce.
4. It remains to add the boiled basmati rice and stir.

This salad can serve as a side dish for meat dishes.

Hunting cucumbers for the winter without sterilization

Although oil is added to the dish, the salad can be classified as a diet food.

Would need:

• 1 kg of cabbage;
• 1 kg of onions;
• 1 kg of cucumbers;
• 1 kg of carrots.

Cooking method:

1. Rinse the carrots, scrape with a knife or cut as thin a layer as possible and grate.
2. Cut the cucumbers into slices.
3. Chop the cabbage finely.
4. Remove the husk from the onion, rinse with water, cut into cubes.
5. Pour 250 g of vegetable oil into a frying pan, transfer vegetables to it, add 6 tbsp. l. vinegar, 1 tbsp. l. salt, 2 tbsp. l. Sahara.
6. Put on fire and simmer, covered, until the cabbage softens and changes color (this will take about 10-15 minutes).
7. Put the Hunter's salad into clean jars and seal without sterilization. Put away for the winter in a cool pantry or cellar.

Hunter's salad with pickles for the winter

This is a very simple appetizer consisting of pickles.

Ingredients:

• cucumbers - 2 kg;
• garlic - 1 head;
• vegetable oil - ½ tbsp.;
• salt - 50 g;
• table vinegar - ½ tbsp.;
• granulated sugar - 120 g;
• black pepper - 20 peas.

The amount of ingredients is calculated for 4 containers with a volume of 0.5 liters.

Cooking method:

1. Place the cucumbers in a large container, add water, set aside to soak for 2 hours. This will make them crispier.
2. Cut them into cubes (medium cucumber, about 6 hours). Place them immediately in a large container (pot or basin).
3. Pour salt and sugar sand into the cucumbers, pour vegetable oil and six tablespoons of table vinegar and mix. Keep vegetables in the pot for 3 hours. During this time, juice should stand out from the cucumbers, which will be a marinade along with spices, oil and vinegar. During this time, it is necessary to periodically stir the contents of the container (about 5 times).
4. Next, put the cucumbers in jars, throw 5 peppercorns into each, put 3 cloves of garlic, cut into halves, pour the marinade.
5. Cover with lids, put in containers with water on fire (half-liter takes 20 minutes to sterilize, liter - 40).
6. Roll up or tighten with screw caps.
7. Cool upside down under a warm terry towel, put in a utility room for the winter.

These cucumbers can be served as an addition to side dishes.

Conclusion

Making a Hunter cucumber salad for the winter is pretty easy. The main job is to peel and cut vegetables. The simplicity is that all the ingredients are immediately put into the dishes and sent to the stove. Further, it remains only to comply with all the rules for sterilization and rolling up cans of salad.

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