Most of us just love pickled vegetables. Among them, the most popular are cucumbers, but there is a product that can be an excellent alternative to traditional preservation. Pickled squash has an excellent taste and aroma. They can be one of the most requested snacks on our table. How to cook pickled squash for the winter?
Spicy recipe
To prepare this type of preservation, you need to take the following ingredients (calculation for a 1 liter jar): 2-3 squash with tender pulp, 2 g horseradish leaves, 10 g parsley and celery, 15 g dill, ground red pepper, 3 cloves of garlic, each 2 tsp sugar and salt, bay leaf, 50 ml of vinegar. If desired, you can use cloves,
allspice, cinnamon (to taste).
The technology of preparing squash: vegetables are washed, the stalks are cut off from them, and then they are blanched in boiling water for 5 minutes. Then squash dipped in cold water. For marinade, you need to take 400 ml of water. Sugar and salt are poured into it. The solution is boiled for 10 minutes, after which 50 ml of 9% vinegar are added to it. Pickled squash is especially tasty if they are not cut into large pieces. At the bottom of the washed cans, carefully washed spices and herbs are placed, and then the sliced squash is firmly laid to the very top.
The cans thus prepared are poured with marinade (80 ° C), covered with lids and put in a large pan with heated water (70-80 ° C). After it boils, the cans are sterilized for 15 minutes. Ready cans are rolled up and the cans are turned over. They are put in a cool place, because the long-cooling pickled squash will become soft. For this recipe, you can use not only pieces of large squash, but also small fruits that easily fit in a jar. Such preservation will also serve as a table decoration, since this vegetable has a very interesting shape.
Pickled squash without sterilization
Many housewives think that conservation is a very complex and laborious process. A pleasant discovery is that it is not necessary to sterilize the pickled squash. The following recipe for making a delicious snack from small fruits or slices of ripe vegetables allows you to quickly prepare a preservation, which can be stored for quite some time. For its preparation, you will need such products: 1 kg of small squash, black and allspice (2-4 pcs.), 10 g of blackcurrant leaves, 10 g of horseradish leaves, 10 g of tarragon, 20 g of dill, 1 l of water, 20 g sugar, 50 g of salt, 150 ml of 9% vinegar.
Technology for the preparation of
preservation: wash
squash , clean them from the stalk, cut off the tops. Vegetables are placed in jars, on the bottom of which spices and spices are pre-laid. They can also shift some layers of squash. The water is brought to a boil and the vegetables are poured with it for 5-6 minutes, after which it is poured into a separate container and boiled again. This procedure must be performed 3 times. Then salt, sugar and vinegar are added to the fill and the marinade is poured into jars, which are rolled up, turned over and put in a cool place to cool.