A simple recipe for preserving cherry plums, like olives for the winter
Olives are a rather tasty product, but they have a high cost, so not everyone can afford to buy this product. A good solution is to cook cherry plums, like olives, for the winter; the recipe is pretty simple but takes time. The final result of rolled cherry plum: the fruit will taste as similar as possible to olives. So, let's reveal the secret of cooking.
Secrets of pickling cherry plums like olives
This fruit is not capricious, it lends itself easily to culinary experiments. But there are subtleties of preparing the workpiece. If you do not know them, then you can spoil both the appearance of the treat and the taste.
To prepare cherry plums, like olives, you need to pay attention to the following nuances for the winter:
- often the fruit is pickled whole, well washed;
- conservation takes place with the use of ripe, hard, not overripe fruits. It can be carried out using fruits of any shade, but it should be borne in mind that a very ripe dark cherry variety will become too soft. It is better to choose unripe fruits;
- different types of fruit are put in one jar, which is very beautiful. But there is an opinion that the flavors of yellow and dark varieties will overwhelm each other, so it is better to pickle them separately.
Necessary products
To cook cherry plums, like olives, for the winter, the recipe provides for such products.
- Ripe cherry plums - 1 kg.
- Granulated sugar - 2 tbsp. l. with a slide.
- Salt - 4 tbsp l.
- Vinegar - 250 ml.
- Bay leaf.
- Carnation - 2 buds.
- Black pepper - 5 pcs.
- Tarragon - 1 tbsp. l. leaves, an incomplete spoon.
Preparation of ingredients
Before pickling, the fruit must be re-sorted. Fruits with an ideal shape, without any damage, are suitable for seaming, otherwise the pickled fruit will come out sluggish and not suitable for using all dishes.
Before rolling, the cherry plum is removed from the tails. The pits that remain from the tails must be thoroughly washed. If dirt remains in the groove, this can provoke damage to the workpiece.
How to prepare containers correctly?
First of all, the containers must be free from defects. For the blank, the selected container is washed in hot water using soda or other special means. Heavily contaminated cans are pre-soaked in boiling water in a soda solution. Then the container is rinsed in hot water.
Before filling, the containers are sterilized using a boiling kettle: the jar is placed on the spout and kept for 20 minutes. If you need a lot of blanks, then sterilization can be carried out in the oven, putting the jars upside down. Sterilization time is 30 minutes.
The metal lids are boiled for 15 minutes before rolling up directly.
How to pickle cherry plum like olives?
The process of harvesting olives for the winter.
- The fruit is washed well, poured with boiling water and infused until it cools completely.
- Drain the water and repeat the process one more time.
- The fruits are removed from the cooled water and sent to ready-made banks.
- All the required components are poured into the water used for pouring the fruit, but without vinegar.
- The mixture is sent to the stove and slowly brought to a boil.
- Vinegar is sent to the liquid, and the mixture is immediately removed from the heat.
- Hot brine must be poured into containers with fruit.
- Each container must be covered with a lid so that the product is infused throughout the day.
- Then the cans are sterilized for 25 minutes.
- The workpieces are rolled up, turned over and wrapped up.
The fruit pickling procedure is quite lengthy. It will be possible to use the workpiece only after 2 months. Before, it makes no sense to open the jar, as the pulp will not acquire the specific taste of olives.
Storage of the finished product
For storage, fruit preservation is sent to a dark, cool place.
