How to cook cucumber salad for the winter

Borage salad for the winter is prepared from any cucumbers: crooked, long or overgrown. Anything that is not suitable for standard preservation can be safely used in this recipe. When combined with other vegetables, the taste is even more intense. As additional ingredients, you can use onions, carrots, tomatoes and sweet peppers.

Selecting and preparing vegetables

Cucumbers for salad can be used any, even slightly overripe. This will not affect the taste of the workpiece, but it is advisable to select ripe tomatoes with a pronounced tomato flavor.

Wash vegetables thoroughly before cooking. It does not require soaking cucumbers for several hours, as with pickling. It is enough to remove all impurities.

Tomatoes for “Borage” with tomato sauce do not need to be peeled. The meat grinder and blender perfectly grind the vegetables into a homogeneous mixture. You should not use a salad variety in recipes with onions. After heat treatment, red onions darken and acquire an unattractive appearance.

How to cook cucumber salad

Crispy cucumbers in tomato sauce with a light garlic flavor will be a wonderful reminder of the warm summer and the generous harvest of autumn. Preparing this appetizer is very easy.

Salad Borage for the winter with tomatoes

The main feature of the recipe is that the cucumbers remain crispy, while the vinegar is practically not felt. As a result, we get a delicious salad, not much different from the summer version with fresh vegetables.

You will need:

• cucumbers – 7,5 kg;
• Tomatoes – 3 kg;
• sugar – 300 g;
• Vegetable oil – 300 ml;
• salt – 60 g;
• Vinegar (9%) – 100 ml.

It turns out a dish with a spicy spicy taste

Step-by-step cooking:

1. Wash the vegetables, chop the main product into circles (thickness 1-1,2 cm). Pass the tomatoes through a meat grinder or grate.
2. Send vegetables to the pan, bring everything to a boil and simmer for 2-3 minutes.
3. Salt, add sugar, butter, mix everything and boil the mixture again. Keep on fire for no more than 3-4 minutes.
4. Introduce vinegar, turn off the fire.
5. Arrange the salad in sterilized jars and roll up under the lids.

If desired, dry dill, paprika, or any other favorite spices can be added to the Borage recipe. Serve with mashed potatoes or rice.

Borage recipe for the winter with onions and carrots

In the process of cooking, it is important to ensure that the onion remains transparent during frying, and the root crop is soft. Then you get a particularly tasty and fragrant dish.

You will need:

• cucumbers – 2,6 kg;
• onion – 400 g;
• carrots – 4 pcs .;
• sugar – 150 g;
• Vegetable oil – 150 ml;
• salt – 50 g;
• vinegar (9%) – 250 ml;
• garlic – 20 denticles;
• fresh dill – 50 g;
• dill umbrellas – 5 pcs.

While combining the ingredients, you can mix them with your hands or a wooden stick.

Step-by-step cooking:

1. Cut the main ingredient of “Borage” into thin slices (thickness 0,5 cm), grate the carrots on a Korean grater, chop the onions into half rings.
2. In a saucepan (in 50 ml of vegetable oil), fry the onion until transparent, then take it out and send the carrots to the same oil.
3. In a deep container, mix cucumbers, both types of frying, garlic, passed through a press, chopped dill, umbrellas, spices and vinegar.
4. All mix well.
5. Transfer the mixture to a saucepan, bring to a boil and simmer for 6-7 minutes.
6. Arrange the finished salad in pre-sterilized jars and leave to cool under a blanket for 1-1,5 days.

You can store the Borage salad even in the apartment, in the pantry at room temperature. The safety of the blanks is guaranteed by a large amount of vinegar in the recipe.

Winter borage with garlic and tomato sauce

Garlic and hot pepper will give the dish a piquant spiciness. In the presence of stomach diseases, these ingredients can be removed from the recipe. The dish is very easy to prepare.

You will need:

• cucumbers – 5-6 kg;
• tomatoes – 2-2,5 kg;
• sweet pepper – 5 pcs .;
• bitter pepper – 2 pcs.;
• sugar – 200 g;
• vegetable oil – 200 ml;
• salt – 50 g;
• vinegar essence – 40 ml;
• garlic – 1 head.

You can add more parsley and dill to the preparation

Step-by-step cooking:

1. Pass all vegetables, except for the main ingredient, through a meat grinder, send to the pan and cook for 10-12 minutes. Add spices, oil and simmer for another 5 minutes.
2. Cucumbers cut into thin circles, send to the sauce and cook for another 6-7 minutes.
3. Pour in the essence, add the garlic passed through the press and keep on low heat for an additional 15 minutes.
4. Carefully arrange the salad in sterilized jars and roll up under the lids.

If desired, fresh dill or parsley can be added to the dish, since the greens go well with cucumbers and tomatoes.

Terms and rules of storage

The salad “Borage” is sent for storage only after it has completely cooled. You can store conservation in the basement, pantry, on the loggia or balcony.

Almost every private house has a basement – a special room located below ground level with temperatures up to +5 ° C in winter and up to +8 ° C in summer. Before sending the blanks, the basement is checked for the presence of mold, fungus and rodents, it is well ventilated and, if necessary, treated with fungicides. The basement is the best option for storing winter conservation.

The layout of a number of city apartments provides for a storage room. It is possible to store blanks there only if there are no heating devices in this place.

Another option available to citizens is a balcony or loggia. To organize high-quality storage in this place, it is necessary to equip a closed rack or cabinet.

It is possible to extend the shelf life of conservation only under the following conditions:

1. Regular airing.
2. Preventing sunlight from reaching the blanks.
3. Constant air temperature.

You can store the Borage salad from 1 to 3 years due to the presence of acetic acid in it.

Conclusion

Borage salad for the winter is prepared from available ingredients and with minimal time and effort. However, this does not affect the taste of the dish.