To prepare the Kuban salad for the winter, you need to spend 3 hours in the kitchen.
Kuban salad for the winter
For 4 liter cans
Cabbage – 1 kilogram
Large, fleshy tomatoes – 5 pieces (1 kilogram)
Cucumbers – 10 pieces (1 kilogram)
Carrots – 4 pieces (800 grams)
Sweet pepper – 5 pieces (800 grams)
Fresh chili peppers – 1 pod
Onions – 2 pieces (300 grams)
Garlic – 5 teeth
Fresh herbs (parsley, dill, basil, cilantro) – 1 large bunch
Black peppercorns – half a teaspoon
Lavrushka – 4 leaves
Vegetable oil – 200 grams
Vinegar 9% – 4 tablespoons (pour slightly below the side)
Sugar – 4 tablespoons (100 grams)
Salt – 2 tablespoons (60 grams)
How to make a Kuban salad for the winter
1. Prepare a large pot for the chopped vegetables.
2. Thoroughly wash cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, bell peppers, chili peppers, herbs, and spread on a towel to glass the water.
3. Peel carrots, onions and garlic.
4. Cut 5 bell peppers into halves and remove the stalk with the seed part, cut the fleshy part of the pepper into thin strips.
5. Remove the hot pepper from the stalk and seeds, cut into rings across the pod.
6. Chop 1 kilogram of cabbage (cut with a knife into thin strips).
7. Cut 5 tomatoes into slices 5 mm wide, first remove the hard light veins extending from the place where the stalk is attached.
8. Cut the tomatoes into 5 mm thick slices 10 cucumbers.
9. Grind the carrots on a coarse grater.
10. Slice 2 onions thinly into half rings.
11. Crush 5 garlic cloves with the flat side of a knife, then chop finely with a knife.
12. Wash, dry and finely chop a large bunch of fresh herbs.
13. In a saucepan with chopped vegetables add 4 leaves of lavrushka, half a teaspoon of black peppercorns, four tablespoons of sugar, two tablespoons of salt and mix everything thoroughly.
14. Arrange the salad in prepared jars, add half a glass of vegetable oil to each and cover with a lid.
15. Place the salad jars in a large saucepan and fill the remaining volume with water.
16. Heat the jars over medium heat until the water boils in a saucepan, then sterilize the jars over low heat for 20 minutes, avoiding boiling.
17. On the jars, lift the lids and pour in 1 tablespoon of 9% vinegar.
18. Take out the cans and tighten the lids. Turn the cans upside down and wrap them in a warm blanket or fur coat.
Delicious facts
– Kuban salad is a popular appetizer, for the preparation of which any seasonal vegetables and aromatic herbs are used. Recipe change allowed – adding other vegetables, such as courgettes, or excluding ingredients that are not currently available. You can also experiment with the norms for bookmarking products. Cucumbers are usually not cooked in blanks, however, it is in the Kuban salad that cucumbers will be a pleasant and crunchy addition.
– Tomatoes for a Kuban snack, it is recommended to take red, brown and green. The main thing is that the fruits are firm (not soft).
– Kuban salad for the winter is prepared and without sterilization: Boil the vegetable mixture for 15 minutes directly in the saucepan and then place in the jars. Another way to prepare Kuban salad: leave the chopped and spiced vegetables in a saucepan for 12 hours, transfer to jars, add vegetable oil, vinegar and close with plastic lids. Salads prepared without sterilization should be refrigerated.
– The salad is named after the area where quality vegetables grow in Russia.