Unusual preparations - recipes for the winter

This fairly simple preparation will allow you to save time on preparing a delicious dinner in the winter, as well as preserve your harvest of sweet peppers.

Dressing for borscht is just a lifesaver for the housewife. It’s worth putting in a little effort during the vegetable ripening season and preparing a few jars of such a simple and healthy preparation. And then in winter you will not have problems quickly organizing a delicious lunch or dinner for your family in a hurry.

Spicy and tangy plum sauce goes well with meat, fish, vegetables and pasta. At the same time, it not only improves or transforms the taste of the main ingredients of the dish, but also has enormous health benefits - after all, it is one of the most delicious and healthy sauces.

Spring has arrived - it's time to make jam from pine cones. Harvesting young pine cones should be carried out in environmentally friendly places.

Ginger with lemon and honey - these three simple ingredients will help us maintain our immunity and stay healthy in winter. I offer housewives to take note of my simple recipe on how to prepare a vitamin preparation for the winter, which stimulates the enhancement of immunity using folk remedies.

One of the very first spring berries is the beautiful strawberry, and my household loves this berry both raw and in the form of jams and preserves.Strawberries themselves are aromatic berries, but this time I decided to add tea rose petals to the strawberry jam.

In winter you always want something tasty. And here a delicious, satisfying and original homemade chicken stew with eggplant always comes to my rescue. If making a classic homemade stew is expensive and takes a long time, then there is an excellent replacement - salad with eggplant and chicken. Eggplants have the unusual property of absorbing the aromas of the foods they are cooked with, thereby imitating their taste.

I would like to offer a simple, but at the same time very tasty recipe for an unusual tomato preparation for the winter. Today I will preserve tomatoes in halves with onions and vegetable oil. My family simply loves them and I have been preparing them for three years now.

Children usually don’t like vegetables at all, including zucchini. Try preparing canned zucchini like pineapples for them for the winter. I am sure that this preparation of zucchini with pineapple juice will not leave your household indifferent.

Rassolnik, the recipe of which requires the addition of cucumbers and brine, vinaigrette salad, Olivier salad... How can you imagine these dishes without adding pickled cucumbers to them? A special preparation for pickle and cucumber salads, made for the winter, will help you quickly cope with the task at the right time. All you need to do is simply open a jar of cucumbers and add them to the desired dish.

Since one day, on the advice of my dacha neighbors, I decided to can the corn that we couldn’t bear to eat boiled, I no longer buy factory canned corn. First of all, because home-canned corn makes it possible to independently regulate the sweetness and naturalness of the preparation.

Cauliflower is notable for the fact that unripe inflorescences or buds are used for cooking. A lot of different delicious dishes and preparations for the winter are made from it and the cooking options are very different. The conservation option I propose today is quite simple.

If carrots have yielded a large harvest, but there is nowhere to store it, then various preparations from this bright and healthy vegetable come to the rescue, which can be easily and simply made at home.Carrots can be canned, either alone or with other vegetables, but today I will tell you how to make carrot caviar with apples.

Ruby or emerald gooseberries in a transparent syrup, viscous with sweetness, carry a secret - a walnut. An even bigger secret and surprise for eaters is that not all berries are walnuts, but only some.

Autumn time has come, the sun is no longer warm and many gardeners have late varieties of tomatoes that have not ripened or remain green at all. Don’t be upset; you can make a lot of delicious winter preparations from unripe tomatoes.

Canning melon with figs in sugar syrup is an easy-to-prepare preparation for the winter. It has high nutritional value and pleasant taste. I’ll quickly tell you how to close such an unusual preparation for the winter in this simple recipe with step-by-step photos taken.

There are many ways to prepare plums for the winter.I prefer to store plums in the freezer. When frozen, the taste, appearance of the product and vitamins are preserved. I most often use frozen plums in syrup for baby food, making desserts and drinks. Children who often eat poorly eat this preparation with pleasure.

Everyone knows how healthy pearl barley porridge is. However, not every housewife can cook it. And it takes a lot of time to prepare such a dish. Precisely because you don’t have to fuss around the stove every time you want to pamper your loved ones with tasty and healthy food, you should prepare pearl barley porridge with chicken for the winter.

Delicious pickled lemons with garlic are a wonderful seasoning and an ideal addition to vegetable appetizers, fish casseroles and meats. The recipe for such a savory preparation is unusual for us, but has long been loved and familiar to Israeli, Italian, Greek and Moroccan cuisines.

It just so happened that there were enough grapes this year and, no matter how much I wanted to get all the benefits from fresh berries, some of them were still in the refrigerator. And then I thought of some simple and quick way to get rid of them so that they wouldn’t disappear.

Pickled onions are an unusual preparation for the winter. You start thinking about it in two cases: when you don’t know where to put a large amount of small onions, or when there are clearly not enough pickled onions from tomato and cucumber preparations. Let's try to pickle small onions for the winter with beets using this recipe with photo.

Many recipes tell you how to properly cook tomatoes in gelatin, but, oddly enough, not all tomato slices turn out firm. A couple of years ago I found this simple recipe for a preparation with sterilization in my mother’s old culinary notes and now I cook only according to it.

This preparation of fried peppers for the winter can be an independent dish, an appetizer, or serve as a side dish for meat dishes. It cooks amazingly quickly. The pepper will taste like freshly roasted, with a pleasant pungency, juicy, and retains its rich color.