Step-by-step recipe for pickled plum snack like olives for the winter
There are fruits that are inaccessible to ordinary people fresh all year round. Plum is one of them. Not only sweet preparations can be prepared from it for the winter. The plum snack, pickled like olives, has gained a lot of fans lately. The dish has an original sweet and sour taste. It can be a worthy substitute for olives. Moreover, there are several recipes for preparing a specific snack.
Peculiarities of pickling plums like olives or olives for the winter
In order for the treat to be successful, you need to follow simple rules. It is better to take the fruits of the Ugorka variety, which is sometimes called Hungarian. The water must be bottled. The salt is rock salt. In no case should you take other types of salt. Vinegar can be poured into apple cider, wine.
Ingredients for the recipe
The special taste of the preparation depends on what kind of marinade will be prepared, on what ingredients will be in it. First of all, this applies to spices. After all, different housewives prefer to use different seasonings:
- bay leaves and garlic;
- cloves, cinnamon and vanilla;
- chopped ginger root, dry thyme;
- ground black and allspice;
- thyme, rosemary.
In addition to spices, the marinade must contain water, rock salt, granulated sugar and table vinegar (in a ratio of 1 liter of liquid and 2 tablespoons of the remaining ingredients).
How to prepare food correctly?
The hostess must prepare the food correctly. Otherwise, the workpiece can quickly deteriorate.
- Unripe plums with intact skin and firm flesh are considered the best for pickling.
- The fruits are carefully sorted. Species that are too soft, overripe or spoiled are discarded.
- Then they are thoroughly washed under running cold water. In this case, the stalks are removed.
- The raw plums are laid out on a clean cloth to drain the water.
The dish is prepared from fruits with and without a bone. In the first case, each plum is pierced with a fork or toothpick. This is done so that the skin does not burst during heat treatment.
Container preparation
The fruits are placed in a well-washed, sterilized container. Usually these are half-liter or liter glass jars.
When preparing them, care must be taken that no cracks appear on the surface. Otherwise, when pouring hot marinade into containers, they will burst, and the products from them will have to be thrown away.
Cooking process
There are several recipes for preparing an original snack so that the finished plums resemble olives.
The process of creating a dish is as follows:
- Plums are placed in containers.
- Prepare the marinade.Rock salt, granulated sugar, spices are diluted in water. Bring to a boil, pour in table vinegar.
- The contents of the jars are poured with a boiling solution.
- The product must be sterilized.
- Close with steam-treated lids.
- The container is placed on a horizontal surface with a lid down and wrapped in a warm cloth.
After cooling completely, the snack is removed to a cold place.
Preservation storage
Canned plums are stored in a cellar or refrigerator for no longer than two years. The most important thing is to avoid freezing the snack.
Pickled plums have become a favorite snack of Russians and residents of the CIS countries. They are served as an addition to meat, dishes from any fish and poultry. And some gourmets consume such fruits with alcoholic beverages. It is not a shame to put the workpiece on both everyday and festive tables.
