Sweet and sour pickled cucumbers easily replace baked salty and will be a wonderful snack for any dishes. How to cook crispy delicious cucumbers in an unusual fill, read below.
Selection and preparation of cucumbers
To keep canned cucumbers crispy, you need to follow a few rules:
- Pick even fruits with tubercles - fruits with smooth skin fall apart after heat treatment.
- Soak the fruit in cold water for several hours. - for 2 hours only collected, for 6-8 - bought in the store.
Did you know? The traditional delicacy in Cyprus is cucumber jam.
Features harvesting sweet and sour cucumbers
Main features of cooking cucumbers in sweet and sour marinade:
- products must have the same shape and dense structure;
- the prescription necessarily uses a preservative in the form of vinegar or citric acid;
- horseradish leaves are used to preserve the crisp structure and improve the taste.
To pickle a vegetable, you will need a set of kitchen utensils, consisting of a sharp knife, transparent glass jars, metal lids for seaming, a 200 ml cup, a tablespoon and a teaspoon, and a 3-5 liter pot.
Important! The amount and types of greenery can be adjusted at your discretion.
The best recipe for sweet and sour cucumbers for the winter with vinegar without sterilization
2 cans per 0.5 l40 minutes
garlic
6 cloves young or 3 old
red hot pepper
1 pod
hot water (+50 ... + 60 ° С)
about 1 l
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Wash all cooking utensils with soda, except for seaming lids.
- Narrow the greens with your hands into 2-3 parts and fold them into the bottom of the jar.
- Cut the garlic into several pieces and fold on top of the greens.
- Trim the tips of the cucumbers and place them tightly in the jar, being careful not to leave gaps between them.
- If you close together with zucchini, they need to be cut into circles 2 cm wide and placed between the cucumbers.
- Lay a pepper pod on top of all products.
- Put salt and sugar in a cup, add vinegar and stir.
- Add 150 ml of water to the resulting liquid and mix until all ingredients are completely dissolved.
- Drain the liquid into a jar, and then add hot water to the very edges of the neck.
- Put a piece of cloth at the bottom of the pan, place a jar on it.
- Pour so much water into the pan so that it reaches the neck of the jar, and drop the lid for seaming into the liquid.
- Cover the pan with a lid and after boiling water, detect 20 minutes.
- After this time, remove the jar with a lid from the pan and roll it up.
Video recipe
The best recipe for sweet and sour cucumbers for the winter with vinegar without sterilization Video recipe: The best recipe for sweet and sour cucumbers for the winter with vinegar without sterilization
Important! If the cans have not been used for a long time, then it is better to sterilize them after washing.
Features of storage of cucumber blanks
The shelf life of cucumbers in dark basements at temperatures up to + 10 ° C is 12 months. When stored in an apartment at room temperature up to + 25 ° С, the period is reduced to 6–8 months.
Sweet and sour cucumbers are a good snack for meat dishes, and can also be used as an ingredient in pickles and hodgepodge. And most importantly, they will not have to spend a lot of effort and money on their preparation.
