Step-by-step recipes with photos

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.

Dishes made from fresh zucchini are rightfully a symbol of summer. This relative of the cucumber does not last long in a city apartment, and in winter, sometimes you really want crispy zucchini pancakes or vegetable stew with zucchini! Frozen zucchini is a great option.

Ripe, juicy and fragrant yellow plums will be a welcome treat at any time of the year, and so that they can delight us with their incredible taste all year round, you can prepare plums in syrup.Since we will be putting pitted plums in jars, then, in principle, fruits of any color are suitable for harvesting, the main thing is that their pit is easily separated from the pulp.

This recipe is a great find for any housewife, since it combines simplicity, benefits, and also the ability to easily prepare chicken for the winter. Homemade chicken stew in the oven turns out tender, juicy and tasty.

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.

Everyone probably knows and loves the taste of store-bought zucchini caviar. I offer housewives my simple method of cooking in a slow cooker. Squash caviar in a slow cooker turns out just as tasty as store-bought. You will love this wonderful, simple recipe so much that you will never go back to store-bought squash caviar again.

The cherry plum jam proposed in this recipe is not cloying, has a thick consistency, and has a slight sourness. Cardamom adds nobility to the preparation and gives a pleasant, subtle aroma. If you have a sweet tooth, then when making jam you just need to add a little more sugar.

Instead of raisins or other purchased dried fruits, you can use home-made dried cherries. By making them yourself at home, you will be 100% sure that they are completely natural, healthy and tasty. Such sun-dried cherries are preserved very well if they are properly dried and prepared for storage.

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.

We are now in the season of blue plums. They are in the middle phase of ripening, not very soft yet. The jam prepared for the winter from such plums will come with whole slices.

This delicious homemade pear and lemon jam is also very beautiful: elastic slices in a transparent golden syrup.

Figs, or fig trees, are simply fabulously healthy fruits. If eaten fresh, it has a magical effect on the heart muscle.

Sea buckthorn jam is not only very healthy, but also looks very beautiful: yellow berries in an amber-transparent syrup.

Pear is a fruit with character. Either it is unripe and hard as a stone, or when it is ripe it begins to spoil instantly. And it’s difficult to prepare pears for the winter; very often jars with preparations “explode.”

At all times, hot sauces were served with meat at feasts. Adjika, an Abkhazian hot seasoning, occupied a special place among them. Its sharp, piquant taste will not leave any gourmet indifferent. I offer my proven recipe. We gave it an appropriate name - Fiery greetings.

According to this recipe, my family has been making quick raspberry jam without cooking for decades. In my opinion, the recipe is absolutely perfect.Raw raspberry jam turns out incredibly aromatic - it smells and tastes like a real fresh berry. And the amazing ruby ​​color remains bright and juicy.

From the middle of summer there comes a time when there is an abundance of bell peppers. A variety of winter preparations are made from it. At the end of the season, when salads, adjikas and all sorts of marinades have already been made, I prepare frozen bell peppers.

Nowadays, stores offer a wide variety of alcoholic drinks, as they say, for every taste and budget. But what could be tastier than homemade berry or fruit liqueur made with your own hands? By tradition, in the summer I prepare several types of such tinctures, liqueurs and liqueurs for my household.

If you love spicy food as much as I do, then be sure to try making adjika according to my recipe. I came up with this version of the much-loved spicy vegetable sauce quite by accident several years ago.

White filling apples showed high yields this year.This allowed housewives to expand the range of preparations made for the winter and make them more diverse. This time I prepared a new and unusual jam from White filling apples with black currants, cinnamon and cocoa.