Have you ever canned cucumber salad? If not, you have missed a lot - you must do it. And how exactly it is being prepared, we will tell you in that article.
Canned Cucumber Salad
This salad is prepared very simply, and contains a minimal amount of ingredients. But at the same time, the finished preservation has a very pleasant taste ... and the aroma! The fragrance is just a fairy tale!
So, in order to prepare a salad of cucumbers according to this recipe, you need to take, in fact, the cucumbers themselves, make their initial processing, which includes washing them and removing the tips. After the initial processing, the cucumbers need to be cut not too thin, but not thick (about 2 mm thick) circles. By the way, to make such a salad it’s not at all necessary to take the most ideal cucumbers - even hooked ones will do.
After you cooked the cucumbers, you need to take onion. In that case, if you take somewhere 2-2.5 kg. cucumbers, you need about a kilogram of onions. Try to choose medium-sized heads - they will work best. Peel the onions and cut into rings. After cutting, try to disassemble the resulting disks into rings.
Now you need to combine these two ingredients and add seasonings to it. What is their number? You can take sugar, vinegar, vegetable oil, coriander, herbs and salt - this is the most suitable list for such a preparation. All the ingredients just listed need to take 100 grams. This, of course, does not apply to salt - it will take about 1 tablespoon, as well as herbs and coriander - try to add these ingredients to taste.
Now that you have combined the onions and the cucumbers, you need to put the cucumber salad on the stove and cook for 10 minutes - you must wait for the moment when the cucumbers change color. After that, put the salad in prepared jars and roll it under the lid.
Korean Cucumber Salad
Do you like spicy? Then try making Korean cucumber salad . For cooking, in addition to cucumbers, you will need vegetables.
So, for cooking cucumbers in Korean, you need to take fresh cucumbers - about 2 kilograms, wash them, trim the ends and cut into thin slices about 4-5 cm long. Now salt them to taste and leave to infuse. It will take about three hours, your task is to wait until they give the juice. Now you must squeeze the cucumbers through cheesecloth so that all the juice flows out.
Now is the time to start cooking vegetables. Each type of vegetable will need about 3-4 units. For the salad you will need onions, tomatoes and bell peppers - all these ingredients are cut into strips.
Now you need to fry the vegetables. To do this, put the pan on the stove and heat it. Then add vegetable oil to it and fry onions on it. When it becomes transparent and soft, add pepper and tomatoes, and then continue the frying process for another 15 minutes.
After frying vegetables, they need to add garlic - first you need to crush it, pepper and stew for a while.
When you think that the vegetables are ready, remove the mass from the heat and let it cool slightly. Then mix the cooled mass with cucumbers and arrange in sterilized jars.
And now a few words about how to properly close the salad in jars. As soon as you arrange the salad in jars (it is better to give preference to 0.5-liter jars), put them in a pan and sterilize them for 30 minutes after the moment the water boils. When you get the cans, roll them up with metal lids and turn them over. Once the workpiece has cooled down, you can take it to a cold place in order to store it until winter comes.
By the way, one and the second salad can be served on the table without closing the jars - just put it in the refrigerator - from there you can get the dish at any time convenient for you.