4 best recipes for making cucumber ketchup for the winter
Every summer resident has a question: what to do with overgrown cucumbers? It will not work to roll them into jars; they are also not suitable for fresh salads. Therefore, many housewives prepare cucumber ketchup for the winter. It turns out to be softer than the classic tomato, so it does not cause heartburn. Cooking does not take much time and effort, all the recipes are very simple.
What is special about cucumber ketchup
Since it is softer than usual, it is suitable for people who suffer from heartburn. It is softer for the digestive tract.
What dishes are recommended to serve
The cucumber option goes well with meat and fish dishes. It can also be used as a gravy, added to pizza.
Ingredients
In addition to cucumbers, the classic recipe includes spices, salt, tomato juice and vinegar.
How to make cucumber ketchup
For the preparation of winter harvesting, you definitely need tomato juice. It is desirable that it be thick.
Therefore, the tomatoes are twisted in a meat grinder, then poured into a saucepan and boiled for half an hour. After that, all the necessary ingredients are added to it, boiled for several minutes and placed in jars while still hot.
For piquancy, store-bought tomato sauces can be added to tomato juice.
Classic recipe "Cucumber delight"
The classic recipe includes:
- 2.5 kg of cucumbers;
- 3 liters of thick tomato juice;
- head of garlic;
- 1 tbsp. l. salt;
- 0.5 tbsp. l. Sahara;
- 1 tbsp. l. vinegar essence 70%;
- 150 ml of vegetable oil;
- spice.
How to cook:
- The vegetables are peeled, pitted and cut into small pieces.
- Pour them into tomato juice, add bay leaves, cloves, peppercorns, oil, salt and sugar.
- Cook for 20 minutes. Pour in chopped garlic. If desired, you can add any chopped greens.
- Cook for another 5 minutes, pour in vinegar and turn off the heat.
Hot vegetables are poured into jars and rolled up.
With hot chili sauce
In this case, in the classic recipe, take 0.5 liters less tomato juice, and add hot chili sauce. Such a cucumber preparation will be more burning.
With ketchup Torchin
You can make a cucumber salad with store-bought sauces.
Required:
- 1 kg of vegetables;
- 120 ml tomato sauce;
- 170 g onions;
- 110 g sugar;
- 1 tbsp. l. salt;
- 100 ml vinegar;
- 1 liter of water.
Cooking steps:
- Cut the onion into quarters into rings, and cut the cucumbers into half circles.
- Sterilized jars are filled with vegetables, filled with brine. To prepare it, pour ketchup, vinegar, water into the pan, add salt and sugar.Add some hot sauce if desired.
- Put on fire, bring to a boil and pour in the cucumber mass.
- Sterilized for 20 minutes.
Overgrown Cucumber Ketchup
It should only be stored in the cellar, in hermetically sealed jars. It is recommended to eat it within 2-3 months.
Required:
- cucumber - 10 pcs.;
- onions - 5 heads;
- mustard seeds - 50 g;
- ground black pepper - 20 g;
- salt - 160 g;
- apple cider vinegar - 800 ml.
Finely chop the onion and cucumbers, put in a sieve for 10 hours to drain the juice. Then add the rest of the ingredients, mix, put in jars.
Storage rules and duration
Cucumber ketchup, closed for the winter with metal lids, is stored in a cellar or pantry for no more than a year.
