Preserving Is Easy: Top 8 Salads For The Winter

All large, ugly, battered vegetables can always be cut into a salad and canned for the winter. It will turn out a luxurious addition to meat and poultry dishes, as well as an appetizer for a feast with strong drinks.

All large, ugly, battered vegetables can always be cut into a salad and canned for the winter. It will turn out a luxurious addition to meat and poultry dishes, as well as an appetizer for a feast with strong drinks. In the cold season, such a salad will please with colors and taste, and will also remind you of a fruitful and hot summer.

So, we simply and quickly preserve cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, zucchini and bell peppers.

1. Cucumber salad in tomato marinade

 

For this recipe, we will use ready-made tomato sauce, but, if desired, you can use homemade. The marinade turns out to be moderately spicy, perfectly stimulates the appetite, with porridge and meat - perfect!

Ingredients (for 3 cans of half a liter):

1 kg of cucumbers; 2 onions; 100 g of ready-made tomato sauce (for example, "Krasnodar"); 6 small cloves of garlic; 500 ml of water; 2 tbsp. spoons of apple cider vinegar (6 or 9 percent); 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil; 1 st. l. Sahara; 1 tsp salt.

Cut the washed cucumbers into rings, half a centimeter thick. Cut the peeled garlic into slices, the onion into thin half rings.

In a large saucepan, bring water, tomato sauce, oil, sugar and salt to a boil. Add vegetables, stir, cook after boiling for 5 minutes. Then pour in the vinegar, stir and cook for another 2 minutes.

Arrange the finished salad in sterilized jars, tighten with clean lids. Leave to cool, and then put in the cellar or refrigerator.

2. Winter cucumber salad

 

Spicy salad with sweet and sour cucumbers and coriander. Great with baked potatoes! We use any - crooked, overripe, huge - cucumbers.

For a cucumber salad for the winter you will need (yield - 3 jars of half a liter):

1 kg of cucumbers; 750 g of onions; 1 st. l. salt; 2 tbsp. l. Sahara; 50 ml of vegetable oil; 50 ml of vinegar 6 percent; 1 st. l. coriander seeds (can be ground).

It's simple: cut clean cucumbers and peeled onions into rings, put them in a saucepan and add the rest of the ingredients. Bring to a boil over low heat and cook until the cucumbers are the color of canned olives. It remains to decompose into sterilized jars and tighten the lids. Cool and store refrigerated.

3. Zucchini salad for the winter

 

Spicy and juicy zucchini salad with bell peppers, carrots, tomatoes, apples, spices in the cold season (as well as from the festive table) will go away in no time! Hot pepper can be omitted if you are not a fan, we highly recommend it to everyone else!

Ingredients for winter zucchini salad (yield - 2 liter jars):

2 kg of zucchini; 1 pc. bell pepper, apple, onion, tomato, carrot; 4 cloves of garlic; 50 g of salt; 150 g of sugar; 100 ml of vegetable oil and 9% vinegar; 1 tsp ground hot chili pepper.

Rinse the zucchini, cut into cubes, rings or half rings. Most importantly, cut out large seeds. Rinse the onion, garlic, carrot, pepper and apple, peeled and peeled, chop in a blender bowl. Pour the puree into a large saucepan and bring to a boil.

 

Then add zucchini puree, salt, sugar and hot pepper. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat to low and simmer for 35 minutes, stirring occasionally. Zucchini will give a lot of juice and will be stewed in it. Add oil and vinegar and cook for another 5 minutes. Pour into clean jars and screw on lids. Turn to cool, then take to a cool, dark place.

4. Tartar eggplant for the winter

 

Eggplant salad for meat and potatoes or an independent appetizer for brown bread you can cook as easy as shelling pears! Adjust the spiciness to your taste by reducing the amount of garlic and chili pepper. A jar can be rolled up without pepper at all - for children and opponents of spicy.

For two liters of eggplant salad you will need:

1 kg of eggplant; 1.5 kg of tomatoes; 6 medium bell peppers; 3 small cloves of garlic; hot pepper - to taste (1/2 tsp); 3/4 cup vegetable oil; 1 st. l. vinegar 9 percent; 2 tbsp. l. salt; a glass of sugar.

Wash the eggplant and cut into small cubes. Cut the washed and peeled bell pepper into strips.

 

Grind peeled tomatoes, garlic and hot peppers with a blender or pass through a meat grinder, put in a large saucepan, add salt, sugar and vegetable oil. Bring to a boil, then add eggplant and peppers. Bring to a boil and cook over medium-low heat for 15 minutes. Pour in the vinegar and cook for another 10 minutes. It remains to decompose into sterilized jars, tighten the lids and cool. Keep cold.

5. Spicy bell pepper salad for the winter

 

The aroma of bell pepper is already salivating! In the season when vegetables are inexpensive, we suggest preparing peppers for the winter. Prepare a spicy salad of sweet peppers with garlic and herbs. This is an incredible dish on its own, as well as the secret ingredient for stews or vegetable soup.

For a bell pepper salad for the winter, you will need (yield - about 2 liters of salad):

4 kg of bell pepper; 4 small heads of garlic; bunch of parsley; 3 chili peppers; 1 liter of water; 300 ml of vegetable oil; 180 g of sugar; 2 tbsp. l. salt; 4 tbsp. l. vinegar 9 percent.

Cut the washed and peeled sweet pepper into large cubes, hot - into rings. In a large saucepan, bring water, butter, sugar and salt to a boil. Add two types of peppers, as well as chopped parsley and garlic, to the pan. Bring to a boil and cook over medium heat for 7 minutes. Add vinegar, stir, cook for another minute or two and arrange in sterilized jars. Screw on sterilized lids and keep warm until cool. Then put away in a cool place.

6. Winter cucumber salad

 

It is very easy to prepare cucumber salad with carrots, sweet peppers and tomatoes for the winter. Vegetables should be infused for an hour, then boil quickly and put into jars. Great way to use overripe vegetables!

Ingredients for winter cucumber salad (yield - 2 liters of salad):

1 kg of cucumbers; 500 g carrots; 500 g of onions; 300 g of bell pepper; 300 g of tomatoes; 30 g of salt; 20 g of sugar; 1/3 cup vegetable oil; 1 st. l. vinegar 9 percent; 1 bay leaf; 2 cloves; 3 sweet peas; chili pepper to taste (1/2 tsp).

 

Cut the washed cucumbers into thick circles, peeled onions and tomatoes into slices, peppers into large strips, grate the carrots. Put the vegetables in a large saucepan, add salt, sugar, vegetable oil, mix and leave for an hour under a towel at room temperature.

After an hour, pour in the vinegar, mix and leave for another 15 minutes. Then bring to a boil and cook over medium heat until the cucumbers turn olive in color.

Spread the spices on the bottom of the sterilized jars, fill the jars with hot salad and screw on the sterilized lids. Cool at room temperature. Store in a dark cool place.

7. Eggplant with peppers and tomatoes for the winter

 

A thick, juicy and bright eggplant salad in winter is good just with bread in the form of a funky snack. We will cook the salad in a heavy-bottomed saucepan (cauldron) or a slow cooker, as you prefer. The complete preparation of eggplant salad will take no more than an hour. Let's see the recipe!

Ingredients (yield - 3 jars of 700 ml):

1 kg of eggplant; 500 g of tomatoes; 500 g of bell pepper; 100 ml each of vegetable oil and vinegar 9 percent; salt to taste.

Rinse the vegetables, cut the eggplant into cubes, the tomatoes into slices, the peeled peppers into large feathers. Pour oil and vinegar into a saucepan or multicooker bowl.

 

Then put bell peppers in the first layer, tomatoes in the second, eggplants on top. Sprinkle generously with salt on top and simmer under a closed lid over medium-slow heat until the eggplant is soft. Once all the vegetables are easily pierced with a fork, the salad is ready! Arrange in sterilized jars, tighten with sterile lids. Cool and store in a dark cabinet.

8. Pepper in Odessa for the winter

 

Very simple and versatile salad appetizer garnish. Pepper can be used alone as a garnish or addition to stews, soups, and other stews. Pepperless sauce will be an equally wonderful base for a sauce, soup or borscht dressing.

To prepare pepper in Odessa for the winter, you will need (two cans of half a liter each):

25 pcs. medium bell peppers; 1 kg of tomatoes; 2 tbsp. l. Sahara; 1 st. l. salt; 1/3 cup vegetable oil; 1 st. l. vinegar 9 percent.

 

Cut the washed and peeled pepper lengthwise into 4 parts. Pass the tomatoes through a juicer or pierce with a blender, having previously peeled them (to do this, dip the tomatoes in boiling water for 20 seconds, then remove the skin without any problems). In a large saucepan, add the salt, sugar, vegetable oil, and vinegar to the tomato juice. Bring the juice to a boil and add the peppers to the pot. Boil for 10 minutes, then transfer to sterilized jars and screw on clean lids. Store in a cool place.