Original recipes for pickling cucumbers with cabbage for the winter in jars
On the festive table, in almost every Russian family, you can see salted, pickled and canned vegetables, the recipes for which are very diverse. Not an exception - cucumbers with cabbage for the winter in jars. This is the merit of the hostess - wife and mother. It is from under her hand that such wonderful snacks come out, which on cold winter evenings delight not only with their usual taste, but also with "warm" summer colors. For the food to be more varied and the table to be hospitable, a woman needs to show imagination, adding variety even to the rules for preparing well-known dishes.
Features of the snack
Canned cucumbers with cabbage is not only an exquisite and original dish, but also very low in calories. The most common salad made from cucumbers for the winter is cabbage salad. To add spicy flavors, a variety of ingredients are added to the dish, from bell pepper to grape leaves. Cucumbers with cabbage are very tasty and simple.
This combination is very successful, because both vegetables are famous for their juiciness and crunchiness. Vitamins are also not lacking, the intake of which into the body is so necessary during snowstorms and snowstorms. In addition, such a salad can easily become an additional ingredient in soups and vegetable stews. The dish is perfect as an independent snack.
Everyone's taste buds work differently. Some people like the perky crunch of a cabbage leaf from a jar of cucumber. Others are lovers of a delicate, mild taste. To get this result, before twisting the jar, the cabbage leaf must be boiled (boiling time - no more than 1 minute).
To make the salad as juicy as possible, chopped cabbage must be crushed with your hands, after sprinkling it with salt. In one form or another, cucumbers with cabbage will find their lover. The variety of options for preparing snacks can surprise even the most experienced housewives.
A spicy salad for the winter without sterilization will surely please both guests and family members of the hostess. After taking the sample, the banks begin to "leave" one after another. To avoid problems with a lack of snacks, you can salt vegetables in several versions of this wonderful dish.
"Summer salad
To prepare a salad, the name alone of which reminds of warmth and sun, it is worth preparing in advance:
- a kilogram of small cucumbers;
- a kilogram of tomatoes of medium ripeness;
- 0.1 liters of vegetable oil;
- a kilogram of white cabbage;
- a kilogram of young carrots;
- a kilogram of sweet bell pepper;
- 50 grams of table salt;
- 0.2 liters of table vinegar;
- 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar.
You need to marinate vegetables in the salad according to the following scheme:
- Rinse thoroughly all vegetables that will be included in the salad.
- Chop cabbage, strips should be as thin as possible.
- Cut the tomatoes into small slices, if the fruits are small, you can simply cut them into 4 pieces.
- Cut the bell pepper into thin strips.
- Wash carrots well, peel them, cut into thin strips. With ingenuity, the hostess can herself determine the forms of carrot slicing.
- Cut the cucumbers into large slices. A medium sized fruit can be cut into 4 pieces using a cross cut.
All ingredients - vinegar, oil, vegetables and spices - must be mixed and boiled in one saucepan for 10 minutes. During this time, dishes are prepared in which the salting will be stored for a long time. Banks must be rinsed and sterilized in advance.
After the salted vegetables have reached the half-cooked stage, they must be laid out in jars, twisted and wrapped in a warm blanket until they cool completely.
Pickled cucumbers with cabbage
Pickled cucumbers with cabbage are a quick and delicious snack. Guests have a great deal of variety on the festive table, so the wonderful duet of two crispy vegetables will be appreciated.
To prepare one portion of pickled cucumbers with cabbage for the winter in jars, you will need:
- 0.3 kg of fresh cabbage;
- 0.6 kg of small green cucumbers;
- 3 leaves of lavrushka;
- 4 cloves of fresh garlic
- dill sprigs;
- peppercorns (black - required, pink, green and white - optional);
- 1 tablespoon table salt
- 1 teaspoon refined white sugar
- 20 grams of table vinegar, which can be replaced with apple cider;
- 0.7 liters of clean water for filling cans.
The recipe for canning cucumbers with cabbage for the winter is as follows:
- Spices must be put in jars that have been sterilized in advance: pepper, bay leaf, cloves of garlic, sprigs of aromatic dill.
- Chop the cabbage arbitrarily, but do not chop it. It should be placed in a jar in layers, alternating with cucumbers.
- Cucumbers, interspersed with cabbage, are placed in a jar in the form of halves. It is necessary to cut the fruits across, not along.
- Having filled the container with layers of vegetables, you need to fill the jar with boiling water to the top and leave to infuse for 8 - 10 minutes.
- The next stage is very important: the water from the can is poured into a saucepan, salt and sugar are added there to make the taste more balanced.
- The brine should be boiled until the bulk products dissolve. After that, just before pouring into the jar, table vinegar should be added to the composition.
- Vegetables in a jar must be poured with hot brine to the very top, rolled up and wrapped in a warm blanket. This is important because the cooling of the conservation should be as slow as possible.
After the jars have completely cooled down, they can be returned to their original position and moved for storage to the place provided for this: a cabinet, cellar or refrigerator.
Cucumbers with cauliflower
Various types of cabbage can be used in cooking recipes, cauliflower is no exception. It turns out to be crispy and delicious. To marinate cucumbers with cabbage (cauliflower) for the winter, you must:
- horseradish leaf;
- cauliflower - head of cabbage;
- 4 medium sized tomatoes;
- 3.5 tablespoons of sugar;
- peas of black pepper (if necessary - pink and green);
- white cabbage - 1 head of cabbage;
- 2 tablespoons of salt;
- a tablespoon of vinegar essence;
- 3 spicy cloves;
- 5 cloves of garlic;
- 3 hot pepper pods;
- 3 units of bell pepper;
- 8 medium sized cucumbers.
The process of preparing an appetizer consists of several stages:
- The cabbage is chopped into small strips.The cauliflower is disassembled into balls with a diameter of 2.5 - 3 centimeters.
- The pepper is divided into 4 parts, the stalks and seeds are removed.
- A pre-calcined jar is filled with spices, two types of cabbage and cucumbers. From the latter, it is necessary to cut off the tips, cutting the fruits themselves into several parts.
- Tomatoes, cut into slices 2 - 3 centimeters long, are placed in a jar.
- Banks are filled with boiling water, which must be left for 10 minutes. After that, the liquid is poured into a saucepan, sugar and salt, vinegar (at the very end of cooking) are added, and the mixture is brought to a boil.
- Pour the jars to the brim with boiling brine, then close the containers using a canning key or self-tightening lids.
- Preservation is covered with a warm blanket until it cools completely, which should be very slow.
Depending on the tastes of family members, the proportions of vegetables in salads can be different, but you need to experiment with spices very carefully. Careful attention should be paid to the time of boiling the brine and blanching cucumbers with cabbage for the winter, if this stage is included in the recipe for preparing an appetizer.