In the cold season, pickled cucumbers often appear on the table in every family. Most housewives canned them with garlic, dill and hot pepper, which gives the finished product a distinctive taste. Our article offers simple recipes for pickled cucumbers with honey and a delicious salad of fresh vegetables. A sweet marinade with spicy notes gives the finished product a special taste. In addition, the cucumbers are elastic and crispy. They are served as a snack or added to various salads and other dishes.
Crispy Cucumbers Pickled with Honey
According to this recipe, it is recommended to use small vegetables. Then, after pickling, they will remain as crispy as fresh.
Cucumbers with honey for the winter are prepared in the following sequence:
- A 3-liter glass jar is washed and sterilized in advance.
- Cucumbers (2 kg) are poured with cold water for at least 4 hours.
- At the bottom of the can, a chopped horseradish leaf, several cherry leaves (5 pcs.), A small piece of hot pepper and dill inflorescence are laid out.
- Further, the jar is densely filled with soaked cucumbers and poured with boiling water (1.5 l).
- After 10 minutes, the water from the can is drained into a pan and brought to a boil on the stove.
- Banks are poured with boiling water for the second time.
- While the water will be heated for the third time, chopped garlic (3 cloves), 100 ml of vinegar, salt and honey (50 g each) are laid out in a jar of cucumbers.
- Cucumbers are poured with water for the third time, after which the can is rolled up with cans.
Winter cucumber recipe with honey and mustard
Pickled vegetables are great for main dishes of meat, as well as side dishes of potatoes and porridge. Cucumbers canned in honey marinade can be used in the preparation of olivier, vinaigrette and other salads. The resulting vegetables are very tasty and fragrant.
The recipe for cucumbers with honey for the winter involves observing the following step-by-step instructions:
- Vegetables are soaked in cold water for a couple of hours.
- At the bottom of a liter jar, dill greens are laid, as well as horseradish leaves, if desired.
- After that, cucumbers with cut ends are stacked to the bank.
- Garlic (2 cloves) is cut into plates.
- Allspice (5 pcs.), White mustard seeds, coriander, cloves (Β½ teaspoon each) are poured into the jar.
- In a pan on the stove, a marinade is prepared from water (550 ml), sugar (100 g), honey and salt (1 tablespoon each). As soon as the water boils, 100 ml of vinegar is poured into the pan.
- Cucumbers in the jar are poured with hot marinade, after which the jar is covered with a lid and left on the table for 20 minutes.
- A towel is laid at the bottom of a large pan, and a can of cucumbers is placed on top. After sterilization for 15 minutes, the jar with a lid can be rolled up with a can opener.
Recipe for cucumbers with pepper and carrots in a honey marinade
Usually pickled or pickled vegetables have a characteristic sour-salty flavor. However, cucumbers prepared according to the following recipe have an interesting sweetish taste and honey aroma.
First of all, dill inflorescences, horseradish and blackcurrant leaves, bay leaf, a teaspoon of mustard seeds are laid out on the bottom of a clean liter can . Then, with carefully washed cucumbers (500 g per 1 liter jar), the tips are cut off. A few cloves of garlic, pepper and carrots are cut into plates or rings.
When the workpiece in the jar is ready, it is poured with boiling water for 10 minutes. After the specified time, the water is poured into the pan and brought to a boil on the stove. A tablespoon of salt is poured into a jar of vegetables, honey (2 teaspoons) and vinegar (2 tablespoons) are added. Then cucumbers with honey are poured with boiling water from the pan and twisted with a can wrench.
Cranberries with honey
Fragrant, crunchy and very tasty cucumbers are obtained according to the following recipe. For their preparation, fresh or frozen cranberries are used, which makes the marinade special.
Cucumbers with honey are prepared in the following sequence:
- Vegetables (2 kg) are poured with cold water for 5 hours.
- Cucumbers are placed in a jar mixed with cranberries (250 g) and poured with boiling water.
- After 10 minutes, the water is poured into the pan and again brought to a boil.
- The second time, cucumbers are poured with boiling water for another 10 minutes.
- Water is again drained into the pan. Honey (50 g), sugar (100 g), salt (75 g) and the same amount of apple cider vinegar are added to it. As soon as the marinade boils, the cucumbers are poured with it, the can is covered with a lid and rolled up with a key. After that, they need to be wrapped up for a day, and then sent for storage from a dark and cool place.
Slimming Honey Cucumber Salad
Below we offer a recipe for a delicious salad with cucumbers and honey dressing. To prepare it, you will need a minimum of ingredients, and the body will get a huge benefit.
To begin with, 2-3 fresh cucumbers are cut into circles, mixed with salt (ΒΌ teaspoon) and laid out in a colander. Vegetables will let the juice flow through the holes. At this time, a dressing for cucumbers with honey is being prepared . To do this, 50 g of natural honey is dissolved in 50 ml of water. Finely chopped dill is added to the prepared dressing, after which the mixture is mixed again and combined with cucumbers.