Vegetables collected from their own infield are always more delicious than store or stall. After all, you know very well how exactly the soil was treated and what fertilizers you used. You picked exactly those varieties of vegetables that seem to you the best, keep up well in your climatic conditions and meet your needs for acidity, sweetness, sharpness, etc. And that's why, of course, you want to save the harvest as much as possible and spin up the homemade canned food.
"Garden" under the lid
What exactly should be a classic vegetable garden salad? The recipe for the winter offers a variety of options - it all depends on what kind of useful plants you planted and grown. For example, if you have zucchini, tomatoes, onions, carrots, cucumbers, cabbage, garlic, then all this will best live in one bank. Of course, you have to store all the components in 3-liter cans - stock up on them! The number of them is free, if suddenly some component is over - it does not matter. Salad "vegetable garden", a recipe for the winter, allows you to vary the composition of the ingredients. So, if you were engaged and melons, then safely put in a jar and a couple of slices of watermelons. The bookmark is made in this way: put 5-6 peas of sweet-scented pepper and a piece of pod on the bottom of the prepared container. Add an umbrella dill, horseradish, black currant and cherry leaves. Then a few slices from cabbage cabbage, small cucumbers, slices or mugs cut into zucchini or squash, strong small tomatoes, mugs of carrots. The last store the slices of watermelon - so that the pulp is not wrinkled under other vegetables. From above cover all this magnificence with one more dill umbrella and several laurel leaves. Plus between vegetables and from above put a pair of cloves of garlic. Now as for the marinade in the vegetable garden salad. The recipe for winter recommends to fill vegetables with such a composition: for every 1.5 liters of water, put 4 tablespoons of sugar (table), 2 salts and half a teaspoon of vinegar (about 125 g).
In order not to doubt the possibility of "bombast" canned food, resort to the old good way: put 2 tablets of usual aspirin under the lid (acetylsalicylic acid is available in each pharmacy). Well, sugar in this case, if you want, put an "extra" spoon. Sterilized in this way salad "vegetable garden": the recipe for winter recommends "boil" the banks for half an hour from the time the full boil of the water bath. Then they should immediately roll up, turn over, cover and leave to cool. In a day to send to the rest of the home preparations.
From the garden to the banks
Another very nice option, how to make a salad "vegetable garden", looks like this. In the three-liter jars on the bottom put garlic, spices, greens, dill necessarily (see the recipe above). Then 2-3 medium carrots (chopped mugs), 2 quarters of a small cabbage head, several slices of courgettes, whole cucumbers and tomatoes (better "cream") - how much will fit, onions sliced in large slices, and halves of sweetened pepper seeds. From above put dill (for a smell) and it is possible still garlic. Pour this beauty should be hot water, let stand for 15 minutes. Then pour into a saucepan, boil again and pour in the vegetables. Leave again for 15 minutes and drain again. After that, pour a glass of vinegar into the pan (full, if 6%, and ¾, if 9%), a glass of sugar, 3-4 tablespoons of salt, leave to boil again. If, after such heat treatment, pour the salad "Ogorod" (a recipe with the photo attached) with a boiling marinade spread over the banks, then they can not be sterilized. Turn over the banks, wrap them and leave to cool down.
How nice to open them in the winter, right?