Salad Hunting with cucumbers: recipes for the winter

To prepare a cucumber salad Hunter for the winter at home means to provide the family with a tasty and healthy vegetable snack. This bright dish with characteristic sweet and sour notes can be both independent and an addition to other side dishes and hot dishes.

The salad looks very beautiful, colorful and bright

Features of preparation

The main advantage of this appetizer is its simplicity and the ability to prepare it for future use. To make a hunting salad with fresh cucumbers for the winter, you will need the usual vegetables and spices. Traditionally, in addition to cucumbers, the composition includes carrots, white cabbage, onions, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, but other options are also possible.

The main ingredient of the salad is cucumber. For this snack, it is quite possible to take overgrown specimens, most importantly, without rot. Large and hard seeds can be removed from them and a thick peel can be removed with a vegetable peeler. But from young hunting salad will definitely be tastier and more attractive. Medium-sized fruits with small seeds are best suited for salads.

There are several ways to cut cucumbers:

1. Circles. Suitable for small vegetables. You can cut diagonally to get an oval shape.
2. Half circles. Method for large cucumbers.
3. Cubes. First, they are cut into circles (1-2 cm) and each of them is divided into identical squares.
4. Slices. Along into 2 or 4 parts, then across (1-2 cm).
5. Straw. In circles or ovals 2 mm thick, stack them in a pile of several pieces, then thinly along.
6. Slices. First, cylinders 3-5 cm high, then lengthwise into 4-8 parts.
7. Bars. Cut in half lengthwise, put skin side up and cut into cubes of the desired thickness. Their length can be arbitrary, depending on the type of dish.

If you follow simple rules, the appetizer will be a success, it will be stored for a long time and delight all winter:

1. Late varieties of vegetables that have reached maturity are well suited for hunting salad. It is necessary to pay attention to their quality: discard spoiled or rotten ones. Although many housewives believe that one of the advantages of this harvest is that you can use slightly spoiled vegetables by cutting off unusable areas. Another plus is that green tomatoes will also go into this salad, which sometimes have nowhere to apply.
2. You can cut vegetables arbitrarily – as you like. It is believed that cabbage looks more spectacular if it is thinly chopped. Carrots can be cut in different ways: in circles, small straws, or grated, choosing a large grater. Sweet pepper looks good in the form of large straws, but there are lovers of half rings or small squares. The bow looks beautiful in half rings. It is better not to finely chop the tomatoes and lay them last so that they do not lose their shape during heat treatment.
3. Cooking is not long – so the snack will be fresher, more useful elements will be preserved.
4. It is not recommended to make a hunting salad with cucumbers in an enamel bowl.
5. The container is used whole (without cracks, chips) and without rusty stripes on the neck. It must first be steamed, held in the oven.

There are many ways to make this snack. There is a recipe for a hunting salad for the winter without cucumbers, for example, with zucchini, eggplant.

Further recipes for the popular harvesting for the future.

Simple salad Hunter with cucumbers

It will take a kilogram of cucumbers, onions, red carrots and tomatoes, as well as 1,5 kg of white cabbage without a stalk and top leaves.

Method of preparation:

1. Chop the fork, after removing the top sheets.
2. Cucumbers cut into slices or strips, turnip – into rings.
3. Remove the skin from the tomatoes, after cutting them and holding them in boiling water for a couple of minutes, followed by lowering them into cold water. Cut into large cubes.
4. Peeled carrots grate on a special grater for salads or cut into thin strips.
5. Put the prepared vegetables in a saucepan, pour in 250 ml of unrefined sunflower oil, mix gently.
6. Keep on low heat until boiling, then put 200 g of sugar, 80 g of coarse salt, stir and cook for half an hour.
7. Pour 150 ml of table vinegar, simmer over low heat for 5 minutes.
8. Fill steamed jars with hot salad. Roll up or screw on threaded caps.

Cool, then send to the pantry for the winter

Classic salad Hunting with cucumbers

It will take a kilogram of white cabbage, cucumbers, onions, carrots and sweet peppers, as well as 3 kg of tomatoes. From the proposed amount, 7 liters of finished products will be obtained. White and purple bulbs will not work, it is better to take the usual yellow, which is considered universal.

Method of preparation:

1. Take a roomy dish for vegetables.
2. Grind washed and peeled vegetables. Carrots and cucumbers – in circles (or halves of circles), turnips and peppers – in halves or quarters of rings, tomatoes in quarters of circles, thinly chop the cabbage.
3. Lay in order: carrots down, then cabbage, onion half rings, cucumbers, then peppers and last tomatoes. Do not mix, do not break the layers.
4. Then send to the fire.
5. Prepare the filling: throw spices into a mixture of 250 ml of vegetable oil and 150 ml of vinegar: a glass of sugar, 90 g of salt, 5 bay leaves, 10 black peppercorns.
6. As soon as the contents of the dishes begin to boil, add the prepared marinade. Cook after the next boil for 5 minutes.
7. Heat treat glass containers.
8. Be sure to put the finished hunting salad hot in clean jars, cover with lids, and sterilize for 5-10 minutes.
9. Cool under a blanket, stick tags with the names and date of preparation, put away until winter in the cellar or pantry.

Salad is served as an accompaniment to a side dish.

Salad Hunter with cucumbers and bell peppers

It will take a kilogram of cucumbers, white cabbage, onions, carrots, as well as 1,5 kg of bell pepper (preferably red or yellow).

Method of preparation:

1. First of all, the ingredients are cut: pepper in halves of rings, cabbage in thin strips, onions in small cubes, cucumbers in circles, 10 cloves of garlic in slices. Carrots are traditionally rubbed.
2. Chopped vegetables are sent to the pan, throw 2-3 bay leaves, 2 tbsp. l. sugar, ground pepper to taste, 1,5 tbsp. l. salt. Pour in 150 ml of vinegar and 250 ml of vegetable oil.
3. Boil, be sure to cover, simmer for 20 minutes.
4. Arrange the hunting salad in the prepared container and spin it for the winter.

Cool under a blanket, send to storage

Salad Hunter with cucumbers and green tomatoes

Prepare 200 g of fresh cucumbers, green tomatoes, bell peppers, as well as 1 onion, 100 g of carrots and 300 g of white cabbage.

Method of preparation:

1. Wash vegetables and let dry. Remove the partitions from the pepper and shake out the seeds, remove the husk from the onion, cut off the top layer from the carrot or scrape it off with a knife, peel the garlic.
2. Cut green tomatoes into cubes, cucumbers and carrots into strips, Bulgarian pepper into small squares or sticks, a clove of garlic into thin slices, chop cabbage.
3. Put the vegetables in a suitable dish, salt to taste. Leave to infuse for 1 hour.
4. Put the pan on the fire, bring to a boil, but do not boil. Pour 2 tbsp. l. sunflower oil and vinegar, mix gently.
5. Arrange the finished snack in jars, sterilize for 10 minutes. Roll up, wrap inverted containers with something warm, let cool. Keep until winter in the pantry or basement.

Salad with green tomatoes is a good addition to boiled potatoes

Salad Hunter with cucumbers and rice

Thanks to rice, the appetizer is hearty. You will need 250 g of boiled basmati rice, one cucumber, green onions and dill to taste.

Ingredients:

Method of preparation:

1. Boil rice. Basmati is best suited for salads due to its crispness. Pour the grits into a saucepan, pour in boiling water (take 2 times more of it), salt to taste. Put on fire, pour 1 tbsp. l. oil, reduce the flame to a minimum, cook for a maximum of 15 minutes under the lid. Before proceeding to the next steps, you need to wait for the rice to cool completely.
2. Meanwhile, prepare the sauce. Combine two tablespoons of olive oil and lemon juice, add a pinch of pepper and salt and mix.
3. Cucumber cut first into circles, then into strips. Chop dill and green onion. Pour the prepared sauce over it all.
4. It remains to add boiled basmati rice and mix.

This salad can serve as a side dish for meat dishes.

Hunting cucumbers for the winter without sterilization

Although oil is added to the dish, the salad can be attributed to dietary products.

You will need:

• 1 kg of cabbage;
• 1 kg of onions;
• 1 kg of cucumbers;
• 1 kg of carrots.

Method of preparation:

1. Rinse the carrots, scrape with a knife or cut off as thin a layer as possible and grate.
2. Cucumbers cut into circles.
3. Cabbage thinly chopped.
4. Remove the skin from the onion, rinse with water, cut into cubes.
5. Pour 250 g of vegetable oil into the pan, put vegetables on it, add 6 tbsp. l. vinegar, 1 tbsp. l. salt, 2 tbsp. l. Sahara.
6. Bring to a boil and simmer covered until the cabbage is soft and its color changes (this will take approximately 10-15 minutes).
7. Arrange the Hunter’s salad in clean jars and cork without sterilization. Put away for the winter in a cool pantry or cellar.

Salad Hunter with pickles for the winter

This is a very simple appetizer consisting of pickles.

Ingredients:

• cucumbers – 2 kg;
• garlic – 1 head;
• vegetable oil – ½ tbsp.;
• salt – 50 g;
• table vinegar – ½ tbsp.;
• granulated sugar – 120 g;
• black pepper – 20 peas.

The amount of ingredients is designed for 4 containers with a volume of 0,5 liters.

Method of preparation:

1. Place cucumbers in a large container, cover with water, set aside for soaking for 2 hours. This will make them crispier.
2. Cut them into cubes (average cucumber for about 6 hours). Immediately put them in a large dish (pot or basin).
3. Pour salt and sugar sand into cucumbers, pour vegetable oil and six tablespoons of table vinegar and mix. Hold the vegetables in the filling for 3 hours. During this time, juice should stand out from the cucumbers, which will be a marinade along with spices, oil and vinegar. During this time, it is necessary to periodically mix the contents of the container (about 5 times).
4. Next, put the cucumbers in jars, throw 5 peppercorns into each, put 3 cloves of garlic, cut into halves, pour the marinade.
5. Cover with lids, put in containers with water on fire (half-liter takes 20 minutes to sterilize, liter – 40).
6. Roll up or tighten with screw caps.
7. Cool under a warm terry towel upside down, put away for the winter in the utility room.

Such cucumbers can be served as an addition to side dishes.

Conclusion

Cooking cucumber salad Hunter for the winter is quite easy. Basically, the work consists in cleaning and cutting vegetables. The simplicity is that all the ingredients are immediately put into the dishes and sent to the stove. Then it remains only to follow all the rules of sterilization and rolling jars of salad.