The owners of cottages and household plots always have a lot of problems: cucumbers have grown or the fog has ruined the tomato crop. But there are no hopeless situations , and each product can always be used.
Cucumbers in cucumbers
Every gardener knows that the beds need constant care. Plants need to be watered and periodically pick ripe fruits. If you do not do this, then one fine day you can see the following picture: the tomatoes darkened, the cabbage wilted, and the cucumbers grew. Of course, a miserable sight. But even then you should not lose heart. Any product can be found worthy of use. There are many ways that you can save or prepare for future use even highly overripe specimens. For example, if the cucumbers really outgrew, then it is better to preserve them in their own juice. For this you will need: 5 large overripe fruits, 0.5 cups of peeled garlic cloves and horseradish root.
The work takes place in several stages:
- First, overgrown cucumbers must be peeled, and then chopped into pulp using a meat grinder.
- Do the same with garlic and horseradish.
- Combine the products, add salt and mix well.
- At the bottom of sterilized cans, lay the vegetable mass.
- Then place the smaller cucumbers. If necessary, they can be cut into pieces.
- Fill the free space with the remaining cucumber mixture and close with a plastic cover.
It is better to store such vegetables in the basement. Cucumbers taste very similar to barrel ones.
Canned semi-finished products
Of course, no one wants cucumbers to outgrow on the beds. But if that happened, then do not be upset. Everything will come in handy on the farm. From pot-bellied yolks, by the way, it can turn out to be an excellent addition for pickle. Why in vain translate young crispy cucumbers? It is better to use plain growths for this. For such blanks you will need:
- a kilogram of large cucumbers,
- 25 grams of salt
- head of garlic
- half a teaspoon of lemon
- 200 grams of carrots and onions,
- 50 grams of tarragon.
Cooking takes very little time:
- Wash the cucumbers, peel them, and cut the flesh into small cubes or straws.
- Process carrots in the same way.
- Chop the onion and garlic as finely as possible.
- Collect the products in a deep pan. Pour salt, citric acid and leave for an hour.
- After that, warm the mass on the stove for 15 minutes.
- Transfer the hot mixture to jars and seal.
Such a product can be an excellent basis for vegetable sauces or a variety of soups.
Vegetable "stew"
If the farm has overgrown cucumbers, the most unexpected recipes can be thought up. Indeed, in skilled hands, any products can turn into a real yummy. Take, for example, a salad for which you need:
- carrot,
- Bell pepper,
- bow,
- Tomatoes
- cucumbers
- greens,
- vegetable oil,
- salt and a little ground pepper.
Cooking process:
- Cut large cucumbers in half lengthwise and remove all seeds, and cut the remaining pieces into cubes. Fry the crushed product in oil in a deep pan.
- Cut the remaining vegetables into small pieces and add to the cucumbers. Stew should be done until each of the products is completely ready.
- Pack the hot mixture in banks and roll up.
After cooling, they can be stored even at room temperature. On the palate, no one will even say that these are overgrown cucumbers. Recipes will differ among themselves only in the composition of the starting components. Such a dish can be served to the table in two ways. Cold, it is a juicy vegetable salad. If you warm the mixture, you get a wonderful side dish.
Interesting options
Mistresses often have to make preparations from overgrown cucumbers. After all, the surprises of nature are difficult to predict. So you have to look for a way out. For example, make a salad in the Korean manner. It is very simple if you have at hand:
- 3 kilograms of cucumbers,
- 1 kilogram of carrot and sweet pepper,
- 3 large heads of garlic,
- a pound of onion,
- 60 grams of salt
- 125 grams of sugar
- a quarter kilogram of burning adjika,
- 120 grams of vinegar,
- half a glass of vegetable oil.
To prepare such a dish you need to strictly follow the steps:
- First, cut the peel from the cucumbers. Then, with a knife, divide them into two parts and carefully remove the core with seeds. The remaining "boats" cut into thin strips.
- Do the same with peppers.
- Cut the onion in half rings, pass the garlic through a crush, and chop the carrots on a special grater.
- Combine the products, add the remaining ingredients, a glass of cold water and leave for two hours.
- Then put the mixture in jars and sterilize in a water bath for 15 minutes.
- At the last stage, harvesting from overgrown cucumbers needs to be rolled up.
Cucumber Caviar
People often, not knowing what to make of overgrown cucumbers, simply throw them out. But such squandering is completely unjustified. In skillful hands, such a product can be transformed simply beyond recognition. There is a recipe for making an original dish, and no one can distinguish it from the famous squash caviar. It will take a few basic products:
- a kilogram of cucumbers,
- 2 cloves of garlic
- bulb,
- one and a half teaspoons of ground paprika,
- 1 carrot
- ½ teaspoon of sugar and apple cider vinegar,
- salt,
- 50 grams of vegetable oil.
Caviar is preparing quickly:
- Peel the cucumbers, and then remove all seeds from them. They only ruin the taste. Grate the remaining pulp using a coarse grater.
- Grind carrots on the same grater, and then finely chop the onion with a knife. Fry both vegetables for 15 minutes in oil.
- Squeeze out the cucumber mass, and then add to the pan. Stir the mass with constant stirring for another 40 minutes.
- About 10 minutes before the end, enter the remaining components.
- Transfer the resulting mixture to a blender and turn into a homogeneous mass.
Now it can be consumed as a snack or slightly warmed up, and then rolled up in prepared jars.
Salty "giants"
Large overgrown cucumbers are somehow not customary to pickle. Such banks have not yet been invented. But not everything is so simple. The salting of overgrown cucumbers is a separate issue that needs special attention. It is clear that they will not fit entirely into banks. Therefore, it is better to make original rolls out of them. The ingredients will need the most common:
- 1 kilogram of huge cucumbers,
- half a liter of water,
- head of garlic
- 3 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar,
- 20 currant leaves
- salt,
- greens (50 grams of dill and 20 grams of tarragon).
It is very interesting to cook such a dish:
- First, the cucumbers must be freed from the hard skin, and the remainder cut into thin slices.
- Chop greens with garlic randomly.
- At the bottom of the wide dishes, alternately lay out the cucumbers and garlic with chopped herbs. Carefully cover the design with currant leaves and pour in a salt solution.
- Put a plate on top and set oppression.
- Put the structure in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
- Tomorrow you can start salting. To do this, first put currant leaves on the very bottom of each jar.
- Roll cucumbers with greens in the form of rolls.
- Stack them tightly in jars.
- Strain the brine, boil, and then fill with hot liquid all the free space.
Such preservation is best stored in a cool place under nylon covers. With boiled potatoes, such rolls are simply lovely.