Imagine winter long evenings, a hot dinner and the summer freshness of a homemade salad. You can always serve it as an unusual side dish or salty snack. The beauty of this dish is that it preserves not only the taste and aroma for a long time, but also vitamins.
Winter cucumber salad "Winter King" - delicious, simple, and most importantly - inexpensive. As they say: cheap and cheerful.
The ingredients needed are the simplest, and cooking it is easy and pleasant. The most important thing is to keep the proportions, then the dish will turn out so tasty that you will lick your fingers!
Cucumber salad for the winter "Winter King" - the general principles of cooking
For the preparation of a cucumber salad for the winter, the "Winter King" selects solid fresh fruits of medium size. Do not use overripe big cucumbers or very small gherkins.
To start, the vegetables should be washed well. You can use a soft brush (take the old toothbrush) in order to carefully clean off the spines remaining after the bed. It will not be superfluous to soak cucumbers in cold water for an hour or two. Next, lightly dry our main ingredient and proceed directly to cooking.
You can cut both half rings and whole rings. Practical in all cucumber salad recipes. The composition includes onions. It needs to be cleaned, washed, dried and also cut into half rings. Prepared vegetables spread in a large bowl, add salt and allow to stand for thirty to forty minutes. This is done to ensure that cucumbers allocate juice. If desired, washed and finely chopped dill is added.
In a large pan, mix the spices with acetic acid, sugar, black pepper and peas. In the resulting aromatic brine add the fruits of cucumbers and mix well. Put on a quiet fire. Bring to a boil, stir in the process. After the vegetables have changed color from bright green to muffled - the salad is ready. Immediately laid out in the prepared banks. The prepared brine should completely cover the cucumbers in the jar. Close the key, turn and wrap.
Cucumber salad for winter "Winter King" - classic
Most housewives prepare this salad in various ways. You can find different "names" of such a cucumber dish, but the essence of the main ingredients and cooking principles remain the same. We offer a classic recipe for a salad of cucumbers for the winter "Winter King".
Ingredients:
• five kilograms of cucumber fruit;
• three hundred grams of dill;
• one kilogram of onions;
• one hundred milliliters of acetic acid;
• two tablespoons of coarse salt;
• forty grams of granulated sugar;
• black pepper peas.
Cooking method
Cucumbers are well washed and cut into rings. If desired, in a salad of cucumbers in half rings - the vegetable is cut in half into two parts and each of them is chopped across with non-thick half circles.
Prepared onions are cut into half-hen, finely chopped greens. All is thoroughly mixed and left for thirty to forty minutes.
Salt, pepper are put in large dishes, granulated sugar is poured, acetic acid is poured. This sauce is mixed with infused cucumbers, greens and onions. All mix well. Put on a slow fire and leave until it boils. Be sure to stir in the process.
When changing the color of cucumbers from bright green to muted - the salad is ready. It is removed from the stove and laid out the banks that have been sterilized in advance. We roll, we wrap a warm blanket. Leave to cool.
Cucumber salad for the winter "Winter King" with vegetable oil
The second name of this salad is "Nezhinsky". He bears this name in honor of the town of Nizhyn, famous for its cucumber varieties in Ukraine. This type of "Winter King" is similar to the previous one, but vegetable oil is present in the recipe and the proportions are somewhat different.
Ingredients:
• two kilograms of cucumbers;
• two kilograms of bulbs;
• one hundred milliliters of sunflower oil;
• one hundred milliliters of acetic acid;
• twenty grams of salt;
• thirty grams of granulated sugar;
• peas of black pepper.
Cooking method
The green fruits of fresh cucumbers are washed and chopped into slices of medium thickness. Onions chopped into semi-circles. Pour spices, pepper, granulated sugar, salt and insist. You need to wait for the cucumbers to stand out juice. Then everything is mixed, put on a stove and allowed to boil. Ten minutes later, acetic acid and sunflower oil are poured onto the fruits of the cucumbers. Once again, give a boil. Then immediately laid out on prepared banks and roll the key. Tara turn over, cover. Then let cool.
Cucumber salad for the winter "Winter King" - "raw"
Not everyone prefers winter salads to conventional cooking by cooking, because the taste of cucumber fruits may change and they will become soft. For connoisseurs of fresh taste of fragrant crispy cucumbers, this is an excellent recipe for cucumber salad for the winter "Winter King" raw cooking method. The highlight of this recipe is a large number of garlic cloves. We do not advise you to add less, because in the salad it acts as a preservative, preventing the appearance of mold or other microorganisms.
Ingredients:
• three kilograms of cucumbers;
• two hundred grams of onions;
• quarter kilogram of garlic cloves;
• one hundred fifty grams of 6-9% acetic acid;
• one hundred grams of salt;
• a glass of sugar;
• ground black pepper;
• Fresh herbs or other spices to taste.
Cooking method
Cucumbers are washed with cool water and chopped with ringlets no more than one centimeter thick. Onions cut into thin strips, garlic is passed through a press. All mix, salt, add granulated sugar, acetic acid, pepper and other spices if desired. If you add fresh herbs - the salad will acquire a fragrant fresh smell and taste. This training is best done at night or early in the morning. As further, the salad should be left in a cool place for ten hours. Then it remains only to decompose the salad in sterilized container. The dish is ready! You can even close the cans with ordinary capron caps, roll up if you wish. If one tablespoon of sunflower oil is poured into each jar, it will be stored in a cool place better and longer. Enjoy your meal!
Cucumber salad for the winter "Winter King" with apple juice
With the preparation of a salad of cucumbers, "Winter King" according to previous recipes can handle an inexperienced or novice hostess. And if you want to surprise your family with an unusual exquisite taste, try making this salad with apple juice. For the exotic, you can add pine twigs, then you will have already prepared a New Year's dish.
Ingredients:
• two and a half kilograms of cucumber fruits;
• one liter of fresh apple juice;
• one tablespoon of salt;
• sprig of pine to taste (3 pieces of 10 cm).
Cooking method
Washed cucumbers are blanched for a few seconds in boiling water. Then put salt, apple juice and boil. When adding pine twigs - they are placed on the bottom of the jar, then put cucumbers and pour in boiling brine. But not everything is so simple. After two minutes, you must again pour the marinade into the pan and boil again. After that, cucumbers are finally poured, the banks are rolled, turned over and allowed to cool in an inverted form.
Cucumber salad for the winter "Winter King" in the currant juice
For those who like to experiment, we suggest trying a winter salad of cucumbers seasoned with currant juice. This component will give the dish spiciness and juiciness. And guests will not remain indifferent and be sure to ask for a recipe. Of course, it is better to prepare blackcurrant juice yourself from fresh berries, but you can also use it bought in a store.
Ingredients:
• two kilograms of cucumber fruits:
• two cloves;
• twenty grams of granulated sugar;
• a glass of black currant juice;
• one liter of water;
• five tablespoons of salt;
• mint to taste;
• dill to taste;
• a few peas of black pepper.
Cooking method
Cucumbers are washed and dried. Then the ends are cut from two edges. Water, salt, sugar are poured into a large saucepan. From currant berries make juice. You can skip through a sieve or cheesecloth, in the presence of a juicer - use it. The resulting blackcurrant juice is also added to the pan. Put on a slow fire and bring to a boil. While the pickle is being prepared, banks can be prepared. Mint, cloves, dill, pepper and other spices are put on the bottom of the sterilized jars. Tara filled with sliced cucumbers, add fill and roll. Salad ready!
Cucumber salad for the winter "Winter King" with sweet pepper
If you are already tired of the classic "Winter King" and want something quick, cook this salad with sweet peppers. You can take the usual taste or spicy - your choice. It's even better to make a mix by adding both kinds of peppers.
Ingredients:
• two and a half kilograms of cucumber fruits;
• 10-12 tablespoons of salt;
• 2-3 pieces of sweet pepper;
• 2-3 pieces of hot pepper;
• two onions;
• three tablespoons of allspice;
• three cloves of garlic;
• cloves;
• half a liter of apple cider vinegar for each jar.
Cooking method
The fruits of cucumbers are washed and poured salted water. Leave for 10-12 hours. Onions, sweet and hot peppers are cut into circles, garlic is passed through a press. After soaking the cucumbers rinsed, chopped into ringlets or cut along. All vegetables are laid out fresh in sterilized jars. Spices and spices are poured with acetic acid and boiled. The resulting brine poured cucumbers in banks, leaving the space on top. Rolled, turned over and left to cool.
Cucumber salad for the winter "Winter King" with tomatoes
If you have grown fond of cucumbers and tomatoes, then you can add tomatoes to the Winter King salad in a cucumber salad for the winter. You do not have to cook them separately. Two salad in one - a great solution, time saving and unique taste.
Ingredients:
• three cucumbers;
• three tomatoes;
• one onion;
• two tablespoons of sunflower oil;
• two tablespoons of acetic acid;
• two teaspoons of salt;
• one teaspoon of granulated sugar;
• one clove of garlic;
• dill.
Cooking method
Vegetables are well washed. Tomatoes cut in halves, cucumbers chopped rings. Onions are peeled, chopped into rings. In a clean liter jar poured vegetable oil. At the bottom of the container lay onions. Then alternating layers lay tomatoes and cucumbers.
Add the garlic passed through a press. All sprinkled with salt, sugar, add acetic acid. Put dill on top and pour boiling water over it. Cans are placed in a bowl of hot water, covered with lids and sterilized for ten to fifteen minutes. Then roll, turn, wrap a warm rug and allowed to cool.
