Cucumbers are harvested for the winter in various ways. Crispy pickled vegetables are the best complement to meat, poultry, fish or side dishes. With some ingredients, cucumbers acquire a special, piquant taste. This vegetable is combined with many spices, herbs and various vegetables. Let's talk about how to make chopped cucumbers in mustard for the winter.
Simple and delicious
For cooking, you need 10 kilograms of cucumbers (you can large, but not overripe), 50 grams of mustard seeds, 2-3 onions, a head of garlic. We wash the vegetables and cut them in half. Then we remove the seeds and cut the cucumbers into long cubes. Put them in a large bowl. Next, prepare the fill. To do this, mix 5 liters of water, 300 grams of salt, 500 grams of sugar. We put the pan on the stove and boil all the ingredients. At the end we pour in table vinegar (9%, 500 milliliters). Pour cucumbers with marinade and leave them for several hours. After this period, fill the drain. Then finely chop the onions and garlic, add them to the cucumbers. We also pour mustard. We put the marinade on the fire and dissolve sugar and salt in it. When it boils, we fill them with sliced cucumbers in mustard spread in cans. For the winter, they can be left if you first put the vegetables to warm for 20 minutes. After that, we close the pickled cucumbers with mustard tightly with lids and leave until cool. Store in a cold room.
Peeled pickled cucumbers
This recipe is good because cucumbers can be taken even overripe. We remove seeds from them, and clean the skin. It turns out delicious sliced cucumbers in mustard for the winter. Take large cucumbers, half a small spoonful of mustard seeds, one bay leaf, cloves (1 pc.), Half a small spoonful of ground coriander, several peas of allspice (you can take black). For marinade, you need to take 2/3 liters of water, a third of a tablespoon of vinegar, 25 grams of salt and 20 grams of sugar. The recipe is designed for a jar of 0.5 liters. We start with the processing of cucumbers. They need to be cleaned and seeds removed. Then cut them into long pieces. We spread the vegetables in a jar and shift them with chopped onions, pepper, dill (you can add horseradish leaves) and all the spices. Next, prepare the marinade. Add salt, granulated sugar to the water and pour vinegar at the end. Fill cans with cucumbers and cover with lids. Warm up for about 20 minutes. Then chopped cucumbers in mustard for the winter roll.
Vegetable salad
For 3 kilograms of cucumbers you will need three onion heads, three medium-sized carrots, fresh dill and parsley, a little pepper, three large tablespoons of salt, a glass of sugar and vegetable oil, 2 tbsp. l vinegar and three large spoons of mustard dry. The recipe for chopped cucumbers with mustard involves a smaller cut of vegetables - in half circles, like a salad. Carrots with three long straws, like Korean dishes. Mix these two vegetables and add to them all the remaining ingredients. We put oppression on top and leave it for 12 hours. After that, put the salad in jars and sterilize for about 15 minutes (depending on the volume of the container). Tightly roll the lids. Usually in such recipes sugar is put more than salt. Therefore, the appetizer is not very salty and moderately piquant.