Cooking winter blanks: tasty and useful

Almost in every house you can meet winter preparations: pickled cucumbers, salads from vegetables, tomato juice and much more. After all, most housewives take care of that, and in the cold season on the table there were vegetables and fruits containing vitamins, albeit not as much as fresh. In order to make winter billets, you do not need to have your own cellar, for, for example, properly rolled cucumbers and tomatoes are stored for a long time at room temperature. And some berries and vegetables can be frozen after treatment and, despite the fact that it's snowing on the street, enjoy the taste and aroma of strawberries, raspberries, etc.

You can make stocks for the winter in several ways. Among them, pickling and pickling, marinating, drying, canning with sugar and, of course, directly freezing. In the latter case, vegetables or fruits retain many useful substances. However, when pickling or marinating, you can get a ready-made dish, which can immediately be put on the table as a snack.

For example, you can make cucumber salad as a preparation for the winter . In order to cook this pickle, you need 3 kg of fresh cucumbers, which are cut into small (about 3-5 mm) rings. Finely cut a bunch of parsley, and garlic (100 grams) squeezed through the press. The ingredients are joined together, there are 3 spoons of salt and a glass of sugar. The resulting mixture is mixed and left for several hours (preferably at night). After this, the cucumbers are transferred to prepared clean jars and sterilized within a few minutes, then clogged with capron or metal caps.

As a preparation for the winter, a cucumber salad prepared according to this recipe will be a tasty and pleasant dish, in which the taste of fresh fruits will remain. In the jars before sipping it is recommended to add a small amount of sunflower oil. Some mistresses prefer to put here rings of onions.

Winter blanks from a tomato are rather various: it is possible to make them in own juice, in the form of assorted, as a tomato or ketchup, to prepare juice. With any method of processing, this will be a rather popular dish when the cold comes, when fresh vegetables on the shelves are encountered less and less.

According to the following recipe, you can prepare a salad of tomatoes with Bulgarian pepper. Two kilograms of tomatoes are passed through a meat grinder and put on the fire for 10 minutes. Next, add a pod of hot pepper, 100 grams of sunflower oil, a teaspoon of salt and 3-4 tbsp. Spoons of sugar.

The mixture is left on fire for another 10 minutes. Further in the tomato put 5-6 pieces of Bulgarian pepper, grated carrots, cut into strips. The dish is stewed for 15 minutes, poured into sterilized containers and clogged.

Winter blanks can be frozen. So many housewives prefer to come with greens, carrots, bell peppers, which can then simply be pulled out of the freezer and added to soup or borsch. Products are pre-washed, cleaned and crushed.