Clove spice - use in home canning

Don't know what to do with large cucumbers? This happens to me too. They grow and grow, but I don’t have time to collect them in time. A simple and tasty salad of cucumbers with onions, peppers and garlic helps out, which in winter goes in great demand with any side dish. And even the largest specimens are suitable for it.

“To get really tasty preparations for the winter, the whole procedure must be carried out with love,” as famous chefs say. Well, let's follow their advice and start preparing pickled gherkins.

Everyone knows how beneficial grapes are - they include a general strengthening of the immune system, protection against cancer, removal of toxins from the body, prevention of premature aging and prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, I really want to save these “vitamin beads” for the winter. For this, in my opinion, there is nothing better and tastier than rolling up grape compote according to this simple recipe without sterilization. I’ll tell you step by step how I do this every fall.

Have you ever tried grape jam? You missed a lot! Healthy, tasty, easy to prepare and store, simply amazing jam from your favorite grape variety will help brighten up cold winter evenings with a cup of aromatic tea. The main highlight of this recipe is that we prepare grape jam in the oven.

My preparation today is delicious pickled plums with spices that will change your idea of ​​​​using fruits only in sweet preservation.

Undoubtedly, the vegetable salad “Lecho” is one of the most popular winter preparations. In addition to the main ingredient, sweet pepper, a variety of seasonal vegetables are added to lecho. Spicy vegetables and herbs add zest to the dish.Today we offer you to get acquainted with lecho recipes that contain a garlic note. Stay with us! It will be delicious!

Residents of not many regions can boast that they can see walnuts not only on store shelves, but also in fresh, unripe form. Cooks use these fruits to make jam of unforgettable taste. This dessert, in addition to its outstanding taste, is also very healthy. There is no doubt that the technology for making nut jam is not the simplest, but if you go through all the difficulties and make jam from green nuts of milky ripeness, you will definitely be satisfied with the result.

Many varieties of cherry plum have one unpleasant feature - an ingrown seed. It is simply impossible to remove this seed without turning the cherry plum into puree. But there are also varieties in which the seed is easily pushed out with a stick. When choosing how to make cherry plum jam, you need to take this feature into account.
Cherry plum, unlike its fellow plum, contains less sugar, but more calcium. Cherry plum seeds are used as one of the components for the manufacture of activated carbon tablets. So, even if you have to make jam with seeds, take comfort in the fact that you are getting more benefits from your jam.

Figs are widely used in cooking and medicine. Thanks to glucose, it helps with colds, and coumarin protects against solar radiation. Figs tones and strengthens the body, simultaneously curing old diseases. To treat colds, drink hot fig compote. This recipe is for adults, but it is so good that it is suitable not only for treatment, but also as a hot drink for guests.

We all love to pamper ourselves in winter with homemade vegetables and fruits. What could be more pleasant than crunching on canned cucumbers after a hearty lunch or enjoying juicy pickled tomatoes?

There are a great many ways to prepare canned tomatoes for the winter. Today I will tell you how to preserve tomatoes with grape leaves, cherries and horseradish in jars. Doing this at home is quite simple and even the youngest housewife can make it.

How nice it is to open a jar of spicy cucumbers on a cold winter day. For meat - that's it! Pickled spicy cucumbers in Jalapeño sauce are easy to make for the winter. Another highlight of this preparation is that when canning you can do without sterilization, which cannot but please a busy housewife.

Every year I pickle bell peppers and admire how they glow from the inside. This simple homemade recipe will be appreciated by those who love spices and exotic notes in their usual food. The fruits undergo short-term heat treatment and completely retain their color, special delicate taste and smell. And the gradually revealing shades of spices will surprise the most spoiled gourmet.

This time I propose to cook pickled tomatoes with garlic with me. This preparation turns out to be very aromatic and tasty. The proposed method of canning is simple and fast, because we pickle tomatoes for the winter without sterilization.

Plum bushes and trees usually produce a very good harvest. Gardeners cope with the abundance of berries by storing them for the winter. In addition to the usual compotes, preserves and jams, very tasty syrup is prepared from plums. For culinary purposes, it is used as a sauce for pancakes and baked goods, as well as a filler for refreshing cocktails. We will talk about all the ways to prepare this dessert at home in this article.

This time I decided to prepare delicious canned cucumbers with chili ketchup for the winter. After spending about an hour preparing the preparation, you will get crispy, slightly sweet cucumbers with a spicy brine that are eaten simply and instantly.

Juicy, spicy and crispy, pickled cucumbers are the most popular addition to main courses on our tables. There are many ways to preserve cucumbers for the winter.

Today I want to offer you an unusual recipe for canned tomatoes. When finished, they look like carbonated tomatoes. Both the effect and the taste are quite unexpected, but after trying these tomatoes once, you will probably want to cook them next season.

When the first cherry plums ripen in the summer, I always try to make various preparations from them for the winter. Today I will cook delicious and simple seedless cherry plum jam in the oven. But, according to this recipe, the result is not quite an ordinary preparation, since cinnamon is added to the jam.

Redheads or boletuses, unlike other mushrooms that are harvested for the winter, perfectly “tolerate” all culinary manipulations during their preparation.These mushrooms are strong, their subcap pulp (fruiting body) does not soften during pickling.

In the North Caucasus there is no such abundance of mushrooms as in central Russia. We do not have noble whites, boletus mushrooms and other kings of the mushroom kingdom. There are a lot of honey mushrooms here. These are the ones we fry, dry and freeze for the winter.

Candied ginger pieces are not a delicacy for everyone, as it has a rather pungent taste. However, the benefits of such a dessert are undeniable and many use the gifts of nature to resist seasonal illnesses. We will be happy to share with you about five proven ways to prepare candied ginger at home.

Before the upcoming feast, in order to save time, we very often buy snacks in stores and supermarkets. At the same time, knowing that almost all store-bought products are filled with preservatives. And of course, the taste and freshness of the food you buy remains a mystery until you try it.

For several years in a row, nature has been giving everyone who likes to garden a generous harvest of tomatoes.