Cucumber salad for the winter “Simple”, the recipe for which has been familiar to many since childhood. When I close this cucumber salad, the smell from the depths of my memory recalls childhood memories — the grandmother in the apron and a large mountain of fragrant cucumbers just collected from the garden. Nowadays, many are trying to reduce the hassle of harvesting, they replace homemade tomato sauce with ready-made ones. Try to cook this salad for the winter, as before, when on the shelves of ketchup during the day with fire was not found. Believe me, the sauce from fresh tomatoes can not replace any ready-made analogue. Choose ripe, bright red tomatoes, it will be better if they are slightly overripe.
Cucumber salad for the winter - a simple and magically delicious appetizer flies off the table instantly. It would seem that for the hype around banal cucumbers? However, guests vote with forks - cucumber salad wins!
- Cooking time: 40 minutes
- Quantity: 4 cans of 500 g
Ingredients for making cucumber salad for the winter “Simple”
- 1, 5 kg of cucumbers;
- 600 g tomatoes;
- 120 g onions;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- 55 g of sunflower oil;
- 50 g of sugar;
- 15 g of salt;
- 50 ml of apple cider vinegar;
- 200 ml of water.
Method of cooking cucumber salad for the winter “Simple”
First, prepare the tomato fill. Ripe red tomatoes cut into slices, put in a saucepan, pour water. Close the saucepan tightly, simmer on low heat for 20-25 minutes. When the tomatoes are completely spread, turn into a puree, you can remove from fire.
Wipe the tomato paste through a sieve with a spoon, carefully squeeze out all the pulp. Peel and seeds will remain on the grid. The more ripe the tomatoes, the thicker and richer the sauce will be.
Now we pour fragrant sunflower oil into the skillet, the same, with the smell of sunflower seeds. Add salt without additives, granulated sugar and apple cider vinegar. Bring sauce to a boil, mix. The highlight of this salad is just the combination of smells - saturated sunflower oil, onion, garlic, fresh cucumbers and tomatoes. And surprisingly, over time the aroma does not disappear a bit.
Prepare the vegetables. Cucumbers cut into slices no thicker than 1 centimeter. You can cut cucumbers in long, thin strips, if you prefer it that way.
Cut the onion into thin ringlets. I advise you to take a white sweet onion, it does not have such a sharp taste, like that of onions.
Finely chop the garlic. You should not let it through the press, it will kill all other smells.
Send the sliced vegetables to a skillet with sauce, put them on the stove again and bring to a boil over high heat.
Boil for 2-3 minutes, immediately remove from heat.
Cooking jars - wash them in soda solution, rinse with clean water, sterilize in the oven or over steam.
We put the salad “Simple” in banks, cover with lids. Sterilize jars with a capacity of 0.5 liters for 10 minutes.
Then tightly close the lid. We harbor jars of cucumber salad with a blanket or blanket. When cool, remove for storage in a cool place.
Storage temperature from +3 to +8 degrees.
By the way, I advise fans of spicy food to add a pinch of cayenne pepper and a teaspoon of smoked paprika for flavor to tomato sauce.
Cucumber salad for the winter “Simple” is ready. Enjoy your meal!
