Preserved grape leaves

“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.

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.

Harvesting and proper storage of grape leaves in winter is especially interesting for those who like dolma or oriental cabbage rolls (a dish containing rice, pieces of meat or minced meat and herbs).

Salting, pickling and pickling are the main types of canned homemade vegetables. Today we propose to talk specifically about pickling, or more precisely, about pickling tomatoes. Fermentation caused by the activity of lactic acid bacteria allows the maximum amount of nutrients to be preserved in tomatoes. They taste simply wonderful!

Many housewives complain that dolma made from pickled leaves is not very tasty. The leaves are too salty and hard, and the sourness that makes dolma so tasty is lost. It is much easier to be proactive and prepare grape leaves for dolma for future use, that is, by freezing them in the freezer.

I read this recipe for preparing green peas for the winter in an old cookbook about canning, which is passed down through the female line. I must say right away that due to the lack of raw materials in such a size that it would not be a pity if it was lost, I did not try to make the blank. But I really liked the recipe itself. Therefore, I am posting it here in the hope that someone will cook natural peas in their own juice and tell us about the results of such a culinary experiment.

In this recipe I’ll tell you how to pickle cauliflower with carrots for the winter. Carrots give cabbage a beautiful color and have a positive effect on the taste of pickling. The preparation can be made both in jars and in any other container convenient for you. This is another plus of this recipe.

You've probably prepared or tried these pickled vegetables. But have you tried pickled peppers with honey? What about cauliflower? I like to make a lot of new homemade preparations every harvesting season. A colleague gave me this delicious, unusual and simple honey and vinegar preserve recipe. I suggest you try to make such a preparation.

Canned cucumbers, rolled without sterilization, turn out juicy, crispy and very tasty. This simple recipe for preparing cucumbers at home can be implemented even by a novice housewife!

If your recipe book only contains recipes for regular pickled cucumbers, then try to diversify your homemade preparations by preparing cucumbers in grape leaves.