Salad with cucumbers Winter’s Tale

Cucumbers are universal in processing. The fruits are pickled and salted whole, they are included in the assortment with other vegetables. Cucumber salad for the winter Winter’s Tale is one of the ways to harvest vegetables at home with a quick, labor-intensive technology. The product is tasty, the ingredients harmoniously complement each other.

Vegetables for processing are taken ripe, without signs of decay.

Selecting and preparing vegetables

Cucumbers use medium or small size, not overripe. They are processed together with the peel, so there should be no dark spots, soft dents and rotting areas on the surface. It is better to use varieties bred specifically for salting. Before making a salad, the fruits are placed in cold water for a couple of hours.

Tomatoes and peppers are also selected fresh, without damage, at the stage of biological ripeness. The vegetables are washed in warm water, the stalk is removed from the pepper and the core with seeds is taken out.

Necessary ingredients

Peppers are used in any color to make the workpiece look beautiful, you can mix green, yellow and red. Vegetable oil is preferably olive oil, but it is not cheap, a more economical alternative is refined sunflower oil. Salt for harvesting is suitable for cooking, large, without additives.

A set of necessary ingredients for salad Winter’s Tale:

• cucumbers – 3 kg;
• sweet pepper – 10 pcs.;
• Tomatoes – 3 kg;
• sugar -300 g;
• garlic – 300 g;
• vinegar – 120 ml;
• oil – 130 ml;
• salt – 3 tbsp l.

If preference is given to a spicy taste, you can include green hot pepper or add red ground pepper to the composition.

Step-by-step recipe for cucumber salad Winter fairy tale for the winter

To get a Winter Tale salad of a balanced taste with a long shelf life, it is recommended to follow not only the proportions of the recipe, but also the sequence of its preparation.

Canned fresh cucumber salad Winter’s Tale is obtained using the following technology:

1. Cucumbers are cut into slices (about 2 mm thick) and the raw materials are poured into a separate bowl.
2. Tomatoes are poured over with boiling water and peeled off.
3. Peppers and tomatoes are cut into parts convenient for an electric meat grinder, passed along with garlic.
4. Pour a homogeneous mass into a saucepan with a double bottom or non-stick coating, keep on fire until signs of boiling.
5. All the remaining components (except cucumbers) are introduced into the boiling billet, the mixture boils for 10 minutes, it is constantly stirred.
6. Then the cooked cucumbers are poured out, they are completely immersed in the marinade and the salad is boiled for another 15 minutes.

Salad Winter’s Tale is packed only in pre-sterilized jars and rolled up with lids.

After that, the banks are placed on the neck. Carefully insulate with improvised means: a blanket, jackets or a blanket. Leave the cucumbers in this form for 48 hours.

Terms and rules of storage

Lettuce Winter’s Tale undergoes sufficient hot processing, so there are no problems with storage. If the technology and proportions are observed, and the jars with lids are pre-processed, cucumbers can be kept in an ordinary pantry at room temperature. Cucumbers will be usable for at least two years.

Conclusion

Cucumber salad for the winter Winter’s Tale is served with a potato side dish, used as an independent snack. The product retains nutrients for a long time. If there is no hot pepper in the workpiece, cucumbers can be included in the children’s diet.