Fans of spicy dishes prefer chili peppers to always be served on the table. If someone from the family or friends at home is among the same big fans, you should prepare it for future use, especially since this is done quite simply. Chili pepper marinated for the winter can be served with any meat dishes, as well as soups, vegetable stews, lobio and other foods. Many housewives use similar preparations for cooking other dishes.
Cooking Features
Chili has antibacterial properties. This not only makes it useful, but also improves the safety of blanks, in which it is added in large quantities. Marinating chili peppers for the winter is not difficult. Knowing a few moments will give an impeccable result.
- Pepper can be pickled whole or sliced. If you plan to clean the pods of seeds and chop them with a knife, protect your hands with gloves. Pepper juice can cause skin burns, and if your hands are stained with their hands to touch the face or eyes, the problems will be even more significant. Taking measures to protect hands from pepper, you will avoid trouble. Gloves are better to choose from thin latex, it is more convenient to work in them.
- Despite the fact that pepper is a preservative, banks under it, especially if the recipe does not provide for sterilization of snacks in banks, you need to thoroughly wash and hold over steam or in a hot oven. The lids are also sterilized by boiling.
- Marinated chilli peppers are covered with metal lids to ensure tightness, even if the billet is planned to be stored in a cold place. The type of caps (screw or under keying) can be selected anyway.
- Chili peppers retain their burning properties even in pickled form, therefore, it is not advisable to close it in large-capacity cans: after opening the cans, it is undesirable to store the product for more than a week, even if it is in the refrigerator. It is necessary that the pepper in the tank was no more than you manage to eat in the specified time.
The storage conditions for chili pepper marinated for the winter depend on the recipe used. Usually such blanks are well worth at room temperature.
A simple recipe for chili pepper marinated for the winter (without sterilization)
The composition (1, 5 l):
- chili pepper - 0, 7-0, 8 kg;
- water - 1 l;
- rock salt - 10 g;
- sugar - 20 g;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- horseradish leaf - 1 pc .;
- table vinegar (9 percent) - 60 ml;
- Dill umbrella - 1 pc.
Method of preparation:
- Sterilize the jars.
- Wash and dry the peeled garlic cloves, dill umbrella and horseradish leaf. At horseradish expose petiole, cut into pieces. Dill umbrella divided into small inflorescences.
- Spread horseradish stalks, dill seeds and garlic cloves in prepared jars.
- Wash the peppers, cut off the tips of the stalks without damaging the pods. Pierce the pods with a toothpick so that the marinade can get inside.
- Pour boiling water over the pods, wait 10 minutes, drain the water.
- Boil a liter of pure water, dissolving salt and sugar in it.
- Pour the vinegar into the jars, then fill them with marinade.
- Wait a little while for air to come out of the pods, if necessary add a little marinade.
- Roll up the cans, turn them over, cover them with a blanket. Leave to cool in a steam bath for additional preservation.
After the jars of pepper have cooled, you can put them in a closet or similar place where you are used to storing supplies for the winter.
Chili Pepper Marinated in Garlic and Herbs
Composition (1 l):
- chili pepper - 0, 6 kg;
- garlic - 10 cloves;
- fresh dill - 50 g;
- fresh coriander - 50 g;
- fresh parsley - 50 g;
- black pepper peas - 10 pcs .;
- salt - 10 g;
- sugar - 20 g;
- table vinegar (9 percent) - 10 ml;
- water - how much will go.
Method of preparation:
- Pepper pods wash, cut off the stem, cut the pods in half lengthwise. Rinse by removing seeds. Drain.
- Wash greens, shake off water, put on a towel. When the greens are dry, finely chop it with a knife, mix, divide into two parts.
- Sterilize the jars. Pour in the washed and dried peppercorns, put half of the chopped greens.
- Place the pepper pieces in the jar.
- Cover the pepper with the remaining greens.
- Cut the garlic into plates, lay it on top.
- In each jar add the right amount of salt and sugar, pour vinegar into the jars.
- Boil water, pour hot water over the cans, filling them to the brim.
- Cover the jars with lids.
- Lay a cloth at the bottom of the pan.
- Put cans of snacks on it.
- Pour warm water into the pan so that it reaches the hangers of the cans.
- Place the pot on a slow fire, bring the water to a boil and sterilize the jars in it for 10-40 minutes depending on their volume (10 minutes is required for jars with a capacity of 0.25 liters).
- Remove the jars from the pan and roll them up.
The appetizer prepared according to this recipe is well preserved at room temperature. It turns out so tasty, fragrant and appetizing that it can become a decoration of a festive table.
Chilli pickled in honey marinade
Composition (1 l):
- chili pepper - 0, 5 kg;
- grape or apple vinegar (6 percent) - 0, 7 l;
- honey - 80 ml;
- salt - 15 g;
- mustard seeds - 10 g.
Method of preparation:
- Pepper pods wash, blot with a kitchen towel. Make small punctures near the stem. Shorten the peduncles themselves, but do not cut them completely.
- Place mustard in prepared jars, put pepper pods in them. To make them more pliable and flexible, they can be poured over for 2-3 minutes with hot water, then pressed.
- Mix salt with honey. Stir until honey is almost liquid.
- Mix honey with vinegar. Bring to a boil and immediately remove from heat.
- Pour hot marinade over peppers. Hermetically cork them, turn them over and cover them with a blanket.
Snacks prepared according to this recipe should be stored in a cool place, preferably in a refrigerator. If you plan to store it at room temperature, you need to sterilize the jar with a snack before seaming in a water bath. Sterilization time is calculated taking into account the volume of cans: 20 minutes per 0, 5 l.
In this recipe, you can marinate and pepper, cut into slices. Pepper in this case will need 1, 5 times more, and marinade, on the contrary, less. Technology of cooking snacks and further storage conditions - the same.
Chili pepper marinated for the winter - a savory snack that will never be on the table extra. It can be used for cooking other dishes instead of fresh hot pepper.
