Cucumbers often delight our countrymen with rich harvests, so they can be prepared for the winter in various forms. The prudent mistress knows how to pickle them whole or preserve them with sliced pieces in order to find application for both young and mature fruits. Cucumbers in tomato paste for the winter can be made according to several recipes. Many varieties of this snack allow the use of over-ripe vegetables. The tomato gives the snack a pleasant tartness and mouth-watering color. Replacing fresh tomatoes with a paste of them saves time and effort.
Cooking Features
Cucumbers in tomato paste is one of the simplest and most economical preparations for the winter, but in taste and appearance it is not inferior to canned food, closed according to more complex recipes. However, without knowing some points of the desired result can not be obtained.
- Cucumbers - capricious vegetables. Even experienced housewives sometimes explode with them. In order to prevent such trouble, it is necessary to keep clean Wash cucumbers thoroughly with a sponge. Banks are washed with soda and sterilized, the lids are boiled for 5-10 minutes. Some housewives refuse to sterilize empty cans, if the recipe provides for their sterilization, along with a snack. This saves time, but increases the risk of bombarding.
- Before cooking snacks, cucumbers should be soaked in cold water for at least two hours. If necessary, water is changed, as in warm water, vegetables can begin to sour. The cucumbers soaked in cold water become more dense and crispy.
- If you can preserve over-ripe fruits in tomato paste, they do not interfere with cleaning the coarse skin and cutting out the areas with the largest and coarse seeds.
- Tomato paste for canning cucumbers in it is chosen high-quality. If you have the opportunity to take advantage of home-made, it is worth taking it. If not, then you can use and purchased, but cooked without the use of starch and other thickeners, dyes and similar artificial additives. When using pasta with added salt and sugar, the amount of these ingredients in the recipe is adjusted downwards.
- After seaming the cans with cucumbers, they are turned over to determine the tightness of the twist. Additionally, some housewives cover the canned food with a blanket so that they cool down in the conditions of a steam bath. In such conditions, canned food undergo additional sterilization, which increases their resistance to adverse storage conditions. It is advisable to do so appropriately if canned food is stored at room temperature. If banks with cucumbers will stand in a cold cellar, there is no need to wrap them up. Cooling not wrapped up, they remain more crispy.
Storage conditions for cucumbers in tomato paste may depend on the specific recipe, but usually these blanks are kept in a cool place. It is possible to store them at room temperature, but it is risky.
Whole cucumbers in tomato paste
Composition (3 liters):
- small cucumbers (up to 10-12 cm long) - 2 kg;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- onions - 50 g;
- dill - 2-3 sprigs;
- tomato paste - 0, 25 l;
- water - 1, 5 l;
- sugar - 30 g;
- salt - 30 g;
- Table vinegar (9%) - 40 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the cans with soda. They will be sterilized with cucumbers, but for reliability you can sterilize them at this stage. Prepare caps.
- Wash cucumbers, cut off their tips. Put the vegetables in a saucepan, cover with cold water, leave for 1, 5-2 hours.
- Wash the dill. Let it dry.
- Cut the peeled onion into half rings.
- Garlic cloves clean.
- Place garlic and dill on the bottom of the cans, spread the onions on the cans.
- Spread cucumbers on the jars, stacking them as tightly as possible.
- Put tomato paste in a clean pan, dissolve it with water. Add salt and sugar to this mixture.
- Bring the tomato paste to the boil and boil it on low heat for 15 minutes.
- Pour vinegar into the tomato sauce, stir it.
- Fill the cucumbers with tomato.
- Cover the jars with lids.
- At the bottom of a large pot, lay a towel, put jars of cucumbers on it.
- Pour warm water into the pan so that its level reaches the hangers of the cans.
- Over low heat, bring the water to the boil in a saucepan. Sterilize the jars in it for 15 minutes, if they are liter. If the volume of the jars is different, adjust the sterilization time to reflect this.
- Carefully remove the jars from the pan, roll them up, turn them over. If you plan to store canned food at room temperature, cover the jars with a towel so that they cool down in a steam bath, thereby undergoing additional sterilization.
It is possible to store canned food, closed according to the above recipe, at room temperature, but in a cool room they will stand better.
Cucumbers in tomato sauce without sterilization
Composition (3 liters):
- cucumbers (small) - 2 kg;
- water - how much will go into the banks;
- tomato paste - 0, 25 l;
- salt - 30 g;
- sugar - 60 g;
- table vinegar (9 percent) - 60 ml;
- bay leaf - 3 pcs .;
- allspice peas - 6 pcs .;
- Carnation - 6 pcs.
Method of preparation:
- Soaked cucumbers soaked in cold water for 2-3 hours. The tips of the fruit must first be cut off.
- Wash jars with soda and sterilize by steaming or in the oven.
- Spread clean spices on the jars.
- Fill jars with prepared cucumbers.
- Boil water, pour cucumbers. Cover them with boiled lids, leave for 15 minutes.
- Drain the liquid from the cans. It will be most convenient to do this through a special cover with a spout and holes on one side.
- Boil a new portion of water, pour cucumbers.
- After 10 minutes, pour the liquid from the cans into the pan, add the tomato paste, sugar and salt to it, stir it.
- Bring the marinade to a boil, boil it for 5-10 minutes.
- Fill the cucumbers with hot marinade, cork tightly and turn over. To cool the workpiece is best left upside down under a blanket.
Despite the simplicity of cooking this appetizer of cucumbers and tomato paste, it turns out tasty and appetizing.
Sliced cucumbers in tomato paste
Composition (3 liters):
- cucumbers - 3 kg;
- tomato paste - 60 ml;
- vegetable oil - 100 ml;
- sugar - 60 g;
- salt - 30 g;
- garlic - 100 g;
- table vinegar (9 percent) - 60 ml;
- water - 0, 2 liters.
Method of preparation:
- Wash cucumbers, let them dry. Cut into circles or medium-sized bars, put in a pan.
- Dissolve tomato paste with water, add salt, sugar and vegetable oil. Mix well.
- Pour the tomato mixture into the cucumbers. Stir them and leave for 1, 5-2 hours at room temperature for the vegetables to let the juice.
- Put the saucepan on low heat, bring its contents to a boil.
- Stew the cucumbers until they have an olive tinge.
- Add garlic and vinegar passed through the press, cook for another 2-3 minutes, remove from heat.
- Transfer cucumbers to pre-sterilized jars. Pour the sauce, hermetically close.
- Leave to cool upside down and bundled up.
If done correctly, the snack will stand well at room temperature. She loves spicy dishes.
Cucumbers in tomato paste is an easy-to-prepare snack, even an inexperienced cook will be able to close for the winter. Canned food can be made from whole or sliced vegetables. For any of the selected recipes, the dish turns out to be tasty and appetizing.
