Recipes for pickling cucumbers with honey for the winter

Cucumbers with honey for the winter are becoming more and more popular every year. The use of beekeeping products allows you to give the blanks a unique touch. Depending on the ingredients, canned cucumbers come out not only sweet, but also salty, spicy or spicy.

Lightly salted recipe

Salted cucumbers with honey are of the greatest interest. The popularity of the recipe is due to its short preparation time. Crispy juicy vegetables are ready in a few hours. A glass container is not required to cook lightly salted cucumbers. The usual package is enough.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of small cucumbers;
• 2 tablespoons of fine salt;
• 2 tablespoons of liquid honey;
• 5 cloves of garlic;
• greens and sweet peas to taste.

Salting cucumbers according to this recipe is very simple. First, you need to rinse the vegetables thoroughly. The husk is removed from the garlic. For better penetration of the marinade, the tips of the cucumbers are cut off. All ingredients are mixed in one container.

It is important that the marinade completely covers the surface of the vegetables.

After that, the honey cucumbers are put into a simple bag and tied tightly. The dish should be marinated for several hours. It is best to leave it overnight. The very next day, delicious crunchy cucumbers will be ready.

Sweet pickled gherkins

If you need to cook pickled cucumbers with honey for a festive table, then gherkins are best suited. They are small and the same size and go great as a snack.

Ingredients:

• gherkins 600 g;
• garlic;
• dill;
• water 1 l;
• salt 1 tablespoon;
• linden honey 100 g;
• table vinegar 60 g.

The ingredients are listed for 1 can.

1. We choose gherkins no more than 5 centimeters in size. We pre-wash them, then blanch for no more than 5 minutes.
2. Place the processed gherkins in jars. Add garlic and herbs to them.
3. Mix salt, honey and acetic acid in brine. Bring the finished mixture to a boil and keep on fire for several minutes.
4. Pour the finished marinade into containers. Cucumbers are made in slightly salted brine.

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This recipe tastes good. Gherkins look great as an independent snack on the festive table. Meat dishes, boiled potato garnishes go well with pickled cucumbers.

Sweet mustard marinade recipe

Pickled cucumbers with honey are obtained in an original way if grains of French mustard are added to the marinade. Beekeeping products add sweetness to vegetables, and mustard seeds add a mild spicy aroma with a slight pungency.

Ingredients:

• cucumbers 1.5 kg;
• liquid honey 100 g;
• salt 70 g;
• lavrushka 5 sheets;
• mustard seeds 1.5 tablespoons;
• vinegar 9% 50 ml.

Before you start cooking cucumbers with honey and mustard, you need to soak the vegetables. Preservation in this case is stored better. Banks don't swell. Careful sterilization of containers also helps to improve storage quality. Banks are treated with soda and sterilized over steam.

• Put mustard seeds and lavrushka on the bottom of the cans.
• Then put the soaked vegetables tightly.
• The next step is to prepare the brine. Pour salt into 1 liter of water and bring the liquid to a boil.
• Pour the finished marinade into jars. The fruit should be completely in the brine. The last to add honey and acetic acid to the jar. It is not necessary to boil the marinade again. Honey does not tolerate high temperatures. Acetic acid acts as an excellent preservative.

Mustard pickled cucumbers with honey take on a sweet floral aroma and a little pungency. This salting is stored throughout the winter.

Cucumbers in honey brine with tomatoes

One-component salting is always very successful, but sometimes it is more profitable to close two or more types of vegetables at once. Cucumbers with tomatoes look very advantageous. Vegetables covered with honey are very juicy.

Only young, dense vegetables are used for the assortment. It is recommended to choose small tomatoes. The cherry variety is best suited.

• small cucumbers;
• Cherry tomatoes;
• garlic 3 cloves;
• black pepper 5 peas;
• honey 0.5 tablespoons;
• salt 0.5 tablespoons;
• sugar 3 teaspoons;
• vinegar 1 teaspoon;
• dill 3 umbrellas.

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The ingredients are indicated for the preparation of the marinade in a 1 liter can.

1. Banks are sterilized in advance. Put garlic and dill on the bottom of each.
2. Rinse the vegetables. Remove the tips of the cucumbers. We make small punctures in tomatoes in the area of ​​the stalk. We put them in the bank first. After them we put tomatoes.
3. In a large saucepan, bring a liter of water to a boil. Pour vegetables with boiling water and leave to sterilize for 15 minutes. After a quarter of an hour, repeat the procedure with fresh boiling water.
4. After 15 minutes, pour the second portion of boiling water into a saucepan for making brine. Bring the water to a boil and add salt and sugar to it. We boil the marinade again. After that, add honey and stir the liquid until smooth.
5. Pour the jars with the prepared brine. Before closing the lids, add acetic acid to the tomatoes and cucumbers in the honey marinade.
6. We close the lids and leave the conservation to cool in a fur coat made of warm blankets.

Preservation of tomatoes and cucumbers with honey for the winter turns out to be very tasty and original. For a change, you can add other vegetables to it: squash, zucchini, onions, corn. To obtain a piquant taste, a small slice of hot chili pepper is added to pickled cucumbers with honey.