Spicy cucumber salad 

Cucumbers can not only be salted, pickled, but also cooked from them delicious salads. The piquancy of such preparations is given by a special crunch of cucumbers, which must be preserved. There are a lot of options for harvesting cucumbers for the winter. There are recipes with and without jar sterilization.

Today we will tell you how to cook a spicy cucumber salad for the winter with various additional ingredients. We advise you to make several jars per sample in order to choose the option that your family liked the most.

Useful Tips

Every housewife dreams that her conservation is kept all winter. There are several secrets that will help get rid of “explosions” in a peaceful kitchen:

1. Never use iodized salt to prepare salads from cucumbers and other vegetables. It is because of her that the preservation begins to ferment, the vegetables soften, the lids swell. The contents of such jars are hazardous to health.
2. The size of the cucumbers will depend on the conditions described in the recipe. Tender cucumbers are chosen for some salads, overgrown with seeds are suitable for others. But still, the preservation is fragrant and tasty.

   

3. For storage in the cellar, basement or refrigerator, cucumber snacks can not be sterilized. But if the salads prepared for the winter will be in the closet in the kitchen, then we recommend that you carry out such a procedure.

And now we proceed directly to the recipes for spicy cucumber salad for the winter.

Variations on a theme

We bring to your attention several options for salads with cucumbers for the winter. And even the ingredients will be different. We advise you to cook cucumber salads in small portions according to different recipes. Imagine what a variety of snacks you will have in the winter. Every time a new delicious salad!

Salad is amazing

This name was given to the salad after the first test by family members. They uttered one word in one voice – amazing. Preparing a spicy cucumber salad for the winter is simple, does not require sterilization. It can be consumed cold or hot, used as a side dish or an independent dish. Spicy cucumbers with brown bread are especially good.

We take vegetables per kilogram:

• cucumbers (any size);
• ripe fleshy tomatoes;
• sweet bell peppers of different colors;
• onion;
• several cloves of garlic;
• lean butter – 1 glass;
• salt and black ground pepper (red or black) to taste;
• vinegar essence – 1 tablespoon

If you eat right away, then do without this seasoning, and be sure to use it for winter.

Method of preparation

1. Rinse vegetables for spicy cucumber salad thoroughly with cold water. If there is no running water, change the water several times. Lay them out on a towel to dry.
2. We cut the cucumbers on both sides and cut them: thin – in circles, thick – in half rings. In tomatoes, we remove the place of attachment of the stalk. You don’t need to peel the skin. We gut the sweet pepper, remove the seeds and partitions. We wash again. We clean the garlic and onions. Vegetables for salad for the winter are cut into half rings in separate cups. Tomato slices.
3. We spread the cucumbers in a saucepan, salt and pepper, leave for a quarter of an hour until the juice appears.
4. We spread the onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, pour oil. Mix carefully. Let stand for another ten minutes and put on the stove, covering the salad with spicy cucumbers with a lid. From the moment of boiling, cook the salad for no more than 25 minutes. Pour in the vinegar, spread the chopped garlic and simmer for another 5 minutes.

Spicy salad for the winter with an amazing cucumber flavor is ready. Arrange in sterile jars, roll up with screw or tin lids, turn upside down and wrap. After a day, clean in any cool place.

Spicy salad

To prepare a spicy spicy cucumber salad for the winter, stock up:

• cucumbers – 1 kg 300 g;
• carrots – 0,4 kg;
• Bulgarian sweet pepper – 2 pieces of medium size;
• ripe tomatoes – 1 kg 500 g;
• onions – 2 large heads;
• salt – 5 teaspoons;
• sugar – 2 teaspoons;
• ground black pepper – 1,5 teaspoons;
• sunflower oil (refined) – 300 ml;
• vinegar essence – 1,5 teaspoons.

How to cook

First, for a delicious cucumber salad, we prepare all the vegetables, rinse thoroughly.

Carrots are peeled, cut into thin strips.

Peeled and washed onions – cubed.

We chop sweet bell peppers of different colors in half rings.

We cut off the nose and ass from the cucumbers, cut into rings, half rings or cubes, as you like.

Grate the prepared tomatoes for the spicy cucumber salad on a coarse grater. Tomatoes should be fleshy. We start with the crown. The peel and place for the stalk remain in the hands. And in the cup – tomato paste. Pour the mass into the pan, adding a quarter of a glass of cold water, and put on the stove. From the moment of boiling, simmer the tomatoes for no more than 10 minutes.

We put carrots, onions and sweet peppers, salt, sugar, sunflower oil, ground black pepper into the boiling tomato mass. We cook for a quarter of an hour. Then throw in the cucumbers. We simmer no more than 5 minutes. Add vinegar and after five minutes remove the pan from the stove, transfer the salad with spicy cucumbers to ready-made jars. We roll up, put on covers and under a fur coat. We remove for storage after the salad has completely cooled.

Cucumbers in tomato paste

This option is great overall. After all, there is often no time to look into the cucumber greenhouse, the fruits outgrow and even turn yellow. And there is nowhere to throw cucumbers, and it’s a pity. As a matter of fact, you don’t need to do this. Spicy cucumbers are just made from “overgrowths”.

What is required for the salad:

• cucumbers – 4,5 kg;
• garlic – 2 large heads;
• granulated sugar – 1 glass;
• refined sunflower oil – 1 cup;
• clean water – 1 glass;
• tomato paste – 1 liter;
• non-iodized salt – 2 tablespoons;
• vinegar 70% – 1 tablespoon.

This is perhaps the easiest and simplest cucumber spicy salad recipe.

Washed and dried cucumbers are first cut into strips, and then into small cubes.

Remove outer clothing from garlic, and then a transparent film from each clove. Grind it with a garlic press.

We spread the cucumbers in a large flat basin, add water, granulated sugar, salt, tomato paste, sunflower oil. Mix everything gently so as not to violate the integrity of the pieces of cucumber and put on the stove. First on a strong fire. After boiling, reduce the temperature to a minimum, boil the salad for 10 minutes.

We fall asleep chopped garlic, pour vinegar. Cook for 10 minutes and immediately lay out in clean sterile jars. You can roll up with screw or turnkey tin caps. In an inverted form under a fur coat, we leave jars with a delicious salad until completely cooled.

Such a blank for the winter is stored perfectly even on the bottom shelf of the kitchen cabinet. A spicy cucumber salad with boiled potatoes or meat is very good. Enjoy your meal.

Nezhinsky

Cucumbers overripe and you don’t know what to do with them? Feel free to pick them up and take them to the kitchen. We will process, make another simple spicy salad for the winter.

So, we need:

• 4 kg of cucumbers;
• 3 kg onions;
• 4 large spoons of non-iodized salt;
• 200 ml of 9% table vinegar;
• 60 grams of a mixture of allspice and black peppercorns;
• a glass of vegetable oil.

This recipe is long-lasting, it takes about two hours to complete. But the finished savory snack is worth it.

Cooking steps

1. We wash vegetables. We cut off the tips from the cucumbers and cut them as we please: rings, half rings, cubes.
2. We clean the onion from the husk, rinse with cold water. According to the recipe, this vegetable is cut into half rings.
3. We combine sliced ​​uXNUMXbuXNUMXbin a large flat basin, sugar, salt, add allspice and black pepper. It is better to mix the vegetables with your hands so as not to crush the vegetables.
4. We cover the basin with a lid. We do not touch vegetables for half an hour. During this time, the cucumbers will be saturated with salt and sugar, and they will give juice.
5. We put the dish on the stove at the highest temperature. As soon as the vegetables boil, switch to low heat and simmer the cucumber-onion salad for another 10 minutes.
6. Pour out vegetable oil (it is better to use refined, but lovers can take ordinary fragrant oil) and table vinegar. We increase the temperature again. When boiling, reduce to a minimum. During cooking, cucumbers settle to the bottom, so in order to avoid burning the mass, the appetizer must be constantly stirred.

While our snack was cooking, jars and lids were sterilized. After all, you need to lay out vegetable preparations for the winter immediately in hot jars. After rolling, turn them over and wrap them.

We clean the cooled jars for storage in a dark and cool place.

Conclusion

As you can see, you can always find a use for cucumbers. You should not be limited only to pickles and marinades. Cucumber salads always turn out tasty and fragrant. Due to the fact that heat treatment is limited in time, useful microelements and vitamins are preserved in vegetables.

The cucumber itself, as well as additional ingredients, are low-calorie. Therefore, cucumber appetizer is an excellent option to include in your diet for weight loss. Having spent a little time, you will provide your family with all kinds of pickles for the whole winter.