Marinated squash is a great alternative to cucumbers

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Most of us just love pickled vegetables. Among them, cucumbers are the most popular, but there is a product that can be an excellent alternative to traditional preservation. Pickled patissons have an excellent taste and aroma. They may be one of the most requested snacks on our table. How to cook pickled squash for the winter?

Spicy recipe

To prepare this type of preservation, you need to take the following ingredients (calculation for a 1 liter jar): 2-3 squash with tender pulp, 2 g horseradish leaves, 10 g parsley and celery, 15 g dill, ground red pepper, 3 cloves of garlic, 2 tsp each sugar and s alt, bay leaf, 50 ml of vinegar. If desired, you can use cloves, allspice, cinnamon (to taste).

Technology for cooking patissons: vegetables are washed, their stalks are cut off, and then they are blanched in boiling water for 5 minutes. Then the patissons are dipped in cold water. For the marinade, you need to take 400 ml of water. Sugar and s alt are poured into it. The solution is boiled for 10 minutes, after which 50 ml of 9% vinegar is added to it. Pickledpatissons are especially tasty if they are cut into not too large pieces. Thoroughly washed spices and greens are placed at the bottom of the washed jars, and then chopped squash are tightly stacked to the very top.

The jars prepared in this way are poured with marinade (80 ° C), covered with lids and placed in a large saucepan with heated water (70-80 ° C). After it boils, the jars are sterilized for 15 minutes. The finished preservation is rolled up and the jars are turned over. They are put in a cool place, because pickled patissons that have been cooling for a long time will become soft. For this recipe, you can use not only pieces of large squash, but also small fruits that fit easily in a jar. Such preservation will also serve as a table decoration, since this vegetable has a very interesting shape.

Marinated squash without sterilization

Many housewives think that conservation is a very complicated and time-consuming process. A pleasant discovery is that it is not necessary to sterilize pickled squash. The following recipe for a delicious snack made from small fruits or pieces of ripe vegetables allows you to quickly prepare preservation that can be stored for quite a long time. For its preparation, you will need the following products: 1 kg of small patissons, black and allspice peppers (2-4 pcs each), 10 g of blackcurrant leaves, 10 g of horseradish leaves, 10 g of tarragon, 20 g of dill, 1 liter of water, 20 g sugar, 50 g s alt, 150 ml 9% vinegar.

Preservation preparation technology: wash squash, clean them from the stalk, cut off the tops. Vegetables are placed in jars, at the bottom of which spices and spices are preliminarily laid out. They can also shift some layers of squash. Water is brought to a boil and vegetables are poured over it for 5-6 minutes, after which it is poured into a separate container and boiled again. This procedure must be performed 3 times. Then s alt, sugar and vinegar are added to the filling and the marinade is poured into jars, which are rolled up with lids, turned over and put in a cool place to cool.