Autumn

Cherry is a variety of small tomatoes that are very convenient to prepare for the winter. Due to their size, they fit very compactly into a jar, and in winter you get tomatoes, not brine or marinade. There are many options for how to pickle cherry tomatoes for the winter.

Recently, many housewives have given up preparing vegetables for the winter. But this is only because there is nowhere to store all these jars of pickles. There are no cellars anymore, and the storerooms are sometimes too warm. If jars of pickled vegetables are normal, then pickled vegetables become acidic and become inedible. Some pickles can be frozen, and sauerkraut is one of them.

When fermenting or pickling vegetables, many housewives add small onions to the brine for taste. Just a little, but with onions any dish becomes tastier. Then, opening a jar of pickled cucumbers or tomatoes, we catch these onions and crunch them with pleasure. But why not ferment the onions separately? It's tasty, healthy, and not very troublesome.

Everyone knows that black radish juice is the best cure for bronchitis. But few people eat the radish itself; its taste and smell are too strong.Or maybe you just didn’t know that you can make a delicious salad from radishes and not suffer from this spiciness at all? You just need to ferment the radish and enjoy the piquant, gentle sourness and mild spiciness.

Pickling vegetables for the winter requires having a large amount of containers. There are not always so many barrels or buckets in the house, and you have to choose what exactly to salt. These pangs of choice can be avoided by salting the assortment. Pickled cucumbers and tomatoes sit perfectly next to each other, they are saturated with each other’s taste, and saturate the brine with more interesting notes.

When chefs offer dozens of recipes for pickling grape leaves, they are being a little disingenuous. Of course, you can pickle cucumbers in grape leaves, but this is just a recipe for pickling cucumbers. Such leaves are not suitable for preparing dolma. They will become too saturated with the taste of cucumbers and will ruin the traditional taste of dolma. One recipe for pickling grape leaves for the winter is enough, because this is just a component of the dish, and completely different ingredients will give it taste.

In the winter, you always want to diversify and complement your dishes, and in the summer, greens help with this. However, not everyone can grow greens on a windowsill in winter, and store-bought ones, alas, cost a lot. Perhaps you should think about how to prepare dill for the winter?

Many gardeners know that it is impossible to plant different varieties of peppers next to each other. This is especially true for sweet bell peppers and hot chili peppers. If a sweet pepper is pollinated by a hot one, then its fruits will be hot. This type of bell pepper is not suitable for summer salads because it is too hot, but for pickling it is exactly what you need.

Korean cuisine is distinguished by its pickles. Sometimes it’s very difficult to just walk past the rows at the market where pickles are sold and not try something. Everyone already knows carrots in Korean, but pickled Chinese cabbage “kimchi” is still new to us. This is partly because there are many ways to make kimchi sauerkraut, and each of these recipes claims to be the most correct.

Adygea has its own traditional national dishes, which have long become international. Adyghe cheese will no longer surprise anyone, but pickled pumpkin “kabshaw” is not so well known yet. In our area, they prefer sweet pumpkin, and many people don’t think that pumpkin can be fermented.

The kroshev recipe originated in the good old days, when housewives did not throw away food, but tried to save as much as possible from the harvest. Traditionally, crumble is made from green cabbage leaves that are not included in the head of cabbage, but are surrounded by burdocks in a dense fork.Now they are cut off and thrown away, but before, it was a necessary component for cabbage soup and borscht.

Now they say that our ancestors were much healthier and physically stronger than the current generation. But the diet of our ancestors was not so varied, and it is unlikely that they knew about the benefits of this or that product, and counted vitamins with calories. But everyone knows that our ancestors ate vegetables, and there are countless fairy tales and sayings about turnips.

In the good old days, pickled watermelons were common. After all, it was only in the south that watermelons had time to ripen and were quite sweet. On most of our Motherland, watermelons were small and sour, and their taste did not cause much delight in either adults or children. They were grown, but they were grown specifically for fermentation.

Lecho is one of the most popular winter preparations. And this is not surprising, because when you open a jar of aromatic vegetable salad in winter, you plunge into an unforgettable summer! This preserved food is served as an independent dish, added to any side dishes, and even made into soup. In this article we want to reveal the secrets of cooking lecho in tomato sauce and offer the most interesting proven recipes.

Tireless breeders have not bred any variety of tomatoes: brown, black, speckled, and green, which, despite their appearance, have reached a full degree of maturity. Today we will talk about pickling green tomatoes, but those that are still at the stage of technical maturity or have not yet reached it. Typically, such fruits are harvested at the end of summer due to changing weather conditions, in order to save the crop from disease. The tomatoes will not have time to ripen on the branch, but they are quite suitable for preparing very tasty winter preparations.

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!

In the 90s, homemade preparation of a variety of letcho salads was almost mandatory for every family. Salads were made from vegetables alone or with additives from various types of cereals. Canned food with rice and barley were especially popular. Such snacks were popularly called “Tourist’s Breakfast”. Today we will look at the most popular recipes for making homemade lecho with rice.

Many people preserve hot peppers for the winter, but not all of it is tsitsak. Real tsitsak pepper has an exceptional taste, and this is a kind of calling card of Armenia. You need to approach its preparation with special trepidation, because these are the traditions and spirit of Armenian cuisine.

There are many dishes that include bell peppers. There is a lot of it in summer and autumn, but what to do in winter? After all, store-bought pepper from a greenhouse does not have that rich summer taste and is more reminiscent of grass. Such waste and disappointment can be avoided by preparing pickled bell peppers for the winter.

In winter it is quite difficult to find good cabbage for cabbage rolls. After all, dense heads of cabbage are left for storage, and such cabbage is literally made of stone. It makes an excellent borscht or salad, but disassembling the head of cabbage into leaves for preparing cabbage rolls will no longer work. You can use the recipe for how to pickle cabbage for the winter for cabbage rolls and make this task easier for yourself.