How to cook sweet cucumbers for the winter - tips and recipes

Tell me how to cook sweet cucumbers for the winter? The child went to visit and tried them there. Now I ordered to do this at home, but I just don't understand what it should be. Gave him a pickled cucumber, said not like that. Maybe it should be a special marinade?

Pickled cucumbers are good in salads and first courses, but pickled cucumbers will be tastier "in a bite" with mashed potatoes, meat or even just like that. Usually they are obtained with a slight sourness, but especially delicious are sweet cucumbers. But there is nothing complicated in how to cook sweet cucumbers for the winter, no. It is just important to know a couple of secrets, thanks to which crispy fruits acquire a spicy hue. And today we will be happy to share them.

What you need to do to make the cucumbers crispy and sweet

First of all, select only small and always young fruits. The optimal length of vegetables is about 12 cm. They will marinate well, but remain firm. In addition, these cucumbers contain more of their own sugars. But overripe "paunch" will no longer be so tasty. It is better to leave them for salting, if you like them. And, of course, an elastic cucumber from winter harvesting will be only from special, not salad, varieties. The latter behave badly both during pickling and in salting, turning into gruel.

Remember to soak the vegetables in cold water for 24 hours. They will become harder, and the skin, on the contrary, will soften a little, and it will be better to absorb the marinade. There is another purpose in soaking: if the fruit is bitter, the water will "draw out" the bitterness.

And the most important secret of sweet cucumbers is the ratio of sugar and salt in the marinade. The first should always be at least 2 times larger.

How to cook sweet cucumbers for the winter

Otherwise, the process of harvesting vegetables is not much different. Wash the jars well, if necessary, with baking soda, and let them dry. Then sterilize, especially if you will not do so with filled cans. Prepare spices (lavrushka, black peppercorns, mustard seeds, garlic to taste). Do not forget about herbs (dill inflorescences, currant, raspberry or cherry leaves).

You can roll up sweet cucumbers in two ways:

1. No sterilization by triple pouring. Place the spices on the bottom of the jars, cucumbers on top. Pour boiling water over, hold for 25 minutes. Repeat twice more. In the last "run" on the drained water, prepare the marinade at the rate of 1 liter of water 1 tbsp. l. salt and 2.5 tbsp. l. Sahara. Before the third pouring, put mustard in each jar and pour in vinegar (1 teaspoon in a 0.5 liter jar). Roll up and let it cool under the covers.
2. With sterilization. Place the dill and a few black peppercorns in a bowl. Then lay out the cucumbers, alternating with rings Luke... Make a marinade: 1.7 liters of water will go for 2 kg of cucumbers, 2 tbsp. l. salt, 6.5 tbsp. l. Sahara. Finally, add 100 ml of vinegar to the marinade and pour immediately into the jars. Sterilize for 15 minutes.

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