Preparing hot peppers for the winter - canning recipes

Real adjika, Abkhazian, is made from hot hot pepper. Moreover, both from red, already ripe, and from still green.This is the so-called raw adjika, without cooking. Adjika in Abkhazian style is made for the whole family, because... this preparation for the winter is seasonal, and in Abkhazia it is customary to prepare adjika for the winter; by our standards, there is a lot of it and one person cannot cope with it. Abkhazians are very proud of their adjika and defend their authorship to Georgia.

Your loved ones and guests, especially lovers of spicy and piquant things, will definitely enjoy the hot-sweet, appetite-stimulating, hot pepper seasoning prepared at home.

There are various ways to prepare hot pepper for future use. One of the simplest and easiest ways in which all the vitamins are preserved and the pungency is not lost is drying. You can, of course, use a modern dryer for vegetables and fruits, but why not try to do it according to the old proven recipe of our grandmothers?

In our family, baked hot peppers canned in spicy tomato sauce are called Appetitka. It comes, as you probably guess, from the word “appetite”. The implication is that such a spicy dish should be appetizing. The main components here are hot pepper and tomato juice.

I first tried these delicious pickled tomatoes at my mother-in-law’s birthday party. Since then, this recipe has been my favorite for preparing tomatoes at home. The canning method does not require sterilization and is quite simple, does not require a huge investment of time, but the result pleasantly surprises everyone who uses it.

A spicy zucchini appetizer prepared for the winter, called “Spicy Tongues” or “Mother-in-Law’s Tongue,” looks great both on the table and in a jar. It tastes sweetish-spicy, and the zucchini itself is soft and tender.

Homemade adjika is the seasoning that is always on the table or in the refrigerator of every “spicy” lover. After all, with it, any dish becomes much tastier and brighter. Almost every housewife has her own recipe for delicious adjika; there are many options for preparing it.

I present to the culinary experts my favorite recipe for a delicious assorted vegetable mixture of eggplants, bell peppers and carrots in a sauce made from tomatoes. For heat and piquant aroma, I add a little hot pepper and garlic to the tomato sauce.

My family is already a little tired of the traditional homemade adjika made with tomatoes. Therefore, I decided to deviate from tradition and prepared an unusual and very tasty adjika for the winter from plums with the addition of tomato paste. A very convenient recipe. This homemade preparation does not require long-term boiling and the products for it are accessible and inexpensive.

Autumn is the most fertile time to make tomato preparations for the winter. And although not everyone likes working with canning vegetables, the pleasure of delicious, natural products prepared at home helps one overcome oneself.

Hot peppers are well known to housewives. Add a little more than necessary, and the food becomes impossibly spicy. However, this pepper has many fans, because dishes with hot seasoning are not only aromatic and tasty, but also have medicinal properties. Therefore, more and more people are interested in what ways can you prepare hot peppers to diversify your home cooking in winter?

There are many varieties of cherry plum-based ketchup.Each housewife makes it completely different. Even for me, it differs every time from the one prepared earlier, although I use the same recipe.

Many housewives like to prepare thin, small-sized cucumbers for the winter, which have a special name - gherkins. For such lovers, I offer this step-by-step recipe that will help you easily prepare hot and crispy gherkins at home.

I suggest housewives prepare very tasty lard at home using a method called dry salting. We will do the pickling with the addition of various spices and garlic. Let us immediately note for those who do not like garlic that, if desired, it can simply be excluded from the recipe, which, in principle, will not affect the quality of the pickling.

There are many recipes for making dried chicken breast at home. Taking one of them as a basis and showing a little imagination, I developed my own original recipe for making dried chicken, or rather, its fillet.

The summer season always brings pleasant chores; all that remains is to preserve the harvest. Fresh cucumbers for the winter can be easily preserved in jars with the addition of vinegar. The proposed recipe is also good because the preparation process occurs without sterilization, which makes the work easier and reduces the time required for preparation. The result of the effort expended is the most delicious, crispy, canned cucumbers.

Using this recipe with turmeric, you will be able to prepare not only a delicious canned cucumber salad, but it will also turn out very beautiful, bright and colorful. My kids call these colorful cucumbers. There is no need to even sign jars with blanks; from afar you can see what is in them.

Lightly salted cucumbers in their own juice, or rather in gruel, are prepared according to this recipe within 2 days. The hot pepper in the recipe will add piquancy to them, and the presence of horseradish will help them stay crispy. This simple but unusual pickling recipe will not take much of your time, but the cucumbers will be very tasty. They go perfectly with meat, fish and vegetable dishes.

Some of us prefer fresh cucumbers or a salad made from them, some like pickled or salted, some pickled from a barrel... and only lightly salted cucumbers are loved by everyone. They are moderately sour, saturated with the aroma of spices and garlic, firm and crispy. But is it possible to preserve this taste and aroma for the winter? You can, and this recipe will help with that. It is quite simple, but it makes it possible to preserve all the above qualities of cucumbers at home for the whole year.

Pickled cucumbers in a barrel are an old Russian preparation that was prepared for the winter in villages. Today, they can be salted in this way if the house has a cold basement or you have a garage, cottage, or other places where you can place plastic ones, but it is better if they are linden or oak barrels.

In order for the beans to be as tasty as possible, you will need young pods without fiber. If they are present in your bean variety, they must be removed manually, along with the tips of the pod on both sides. A simple recipe for pickling green beans will help you preserve their taste and beneficial properties for the winter.

Squash salad is a light vegetable dish that tastes like a zucchini appetizer.But squash has a milder taste and better absorbs the aromas of accompanying products and spices. Therefore, such an original and tasty salad cannot be hidden in the pantry for a long time.

Fresh squash is a universal product, although not very popular. And pickled squash is quite popular, as it has a unique, original taste and contains many useful vitamins and minerals. It is strongly recommended to eat pickled squash if there are, even minor, deviations in the functioning of your body.

There are many ways to prepare pickled watermelons for the winter. I tried more than one until I fell in love with the recipe for pickled watermelons with spices and garlic in Kherson. Watermelons according to this recipe are sweet, piquant, slightly spicy in taste. And the pieces remain pleasantly hard due to the fact that during preparation they undergo minimal heat treatment.