Step-by-step recipes with photos

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.

Hot, spicy, sour, green, with chili – there are a lot of unusual and tasty recipes for canned tomatoes. Each housewife has her own recipe, tested over the years and approved by her family. The combination, basil and tomato, is a classic in cooking.

My grandmother used to make pickled baby onions for the winter using this recipe. Small pickled onions, closed in this way, are both an excellent independent snack for a glass of something appropriate, and an excellent addition to salads or used to decorate dishes.

If you have zucchini and want to marinate it without spending a lot of time, then this recipe is just for you. Today I’ll tell you how to make delicious marinated zucchini with instant carrots for the winter.

A delicious pickled vegetable platter looks very elegant on the table, reminiscent of sunny summer and an abundance of vegetables. It’s not difficult to make, and the lack of clear proportions makes it possible to pickle any vegetables, root vegetables and even onions. You can use jars of different sizes. The choice of volume depends on the availability of ingredients and ease of use.

There are a great many recipes for lecho and no less options for preparing it for the winter. Today I will make lecho without vinegar in Kazakh style. This version of preparing this popular canned bell pepper and tomato salad is distinguished by its rich taste. Its sweet and sour taste with a slight spiciness will not leave anyone indifferent.

Well, who doesn’t like to enjoy raspberry jam on cold winter evenings!? The juicy, sweet and sour berry is also endowed with medicinal properties. Therefore, raspberry jam perfectly helps to cope with colds.

Plum jam, in my case yellow cherry plum, is one of the magical treats for those with a sweet tooth during the cold season. This preparation will lift your spirits, add strength, give pleasure and bring the whole family together at the table.

I would like to present to your attention a recipe for preserving a simple and very tasty salad, which many know as lecho. The peculiarity of the recipe is that it is lecho with carrots. It will certainly be appreciated by lovers of tasty and healthy food. It will especially please housewives, because it does not contain complex ingredients, and preparation and canning does not take much time.

There are many recipes for canning cherry tomatoes for the winter, but this recipe with carrot tops will conquer everyone. The tomatoes turn out very tasty, and the carrot tops add a unique twist to the preparation.

Home canned corn is widely used to make a variety of salads, appetizers, soups, meat dishes and side dishes. Some housewives are afraid to take on such conservation. But in vain, because the process is quite simple and even an inexperienced housewife can handle it.

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.

Delicious and healthy homemade compotes for the winter are made from a wide variety of fruits and berries. Today I decided to make grape compote from black (or blue) grapes. For this preparation, I take the Golubok or Isabella varieties.

Eggplants in any form have the amazing ability to harmonize with almost any side dish. Today I will make pickled eggplants with garlic and herbs for the winter. I will put vegetables in jars, but, in principle, they can be stored in any other container.

Store-bought pickled cucumbers usually make a great addition to salads, and many housewives try to get the same taste when preparing them at home. If you also love this sweet-spicy taste, you may find this post of mine useful.

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.

Summer spoils us with an abundance of vegetables, especially zucchini. By the beginning of July, we were already eating tender slices, fried in batter and stew made from the tender pulp of this vegetable, and baked in the oven, and baked pancakes and made preparations for the winter.

Whether wild strawberry or garden strawberry, this plant is unique. Its small red berries are incredibly rich in vitamins and other beneficial substances. Therefore, every housewife tries not only to feed her family with fresh berries, but also to prepare them for the winter.

Hardly anyone doubts the benefits of cauliflower; frozen cauliflower is no exception. But how to properly freeze and preserve these delicate inflorescences for the winter? After all, it can turn blue or darken when frozen.

Of course, in winter you can buy fresh herbs in a large supermarket. But why buy if you can prepare dill for future use during the summer season.Moreover, in winter it will remain as fragrant as in summer. I'm talking about frozen dill.