Every housewife knows a lot of summer salads, in which the main ingredients are cucumbers and tomatoes. These vegetables are ideally combined with each other, and this union is no less good in winter harvesting. Cucumbers with tomatoes in Korean can be prepared for the winter. Such a salad would be appropriate not only as a supplement to a family dinner or dinner, but also on a festive table. These snacks are good in themselves, can serve as an addition to meat and fish dishes.
Cooking Features
Salads with tomatoes and cucumbers in Korean for the winter can be very different. In some cases, tomatoes are cut into slices, in others - chopped, and then they serve as the basis for a piquant fill. The technology of making these snacks can not be identical. However, there are general rules for their preparation, knowing that even a novice cook can cope with the preparation of a tomato and cucumber salad in Korean for the winter.
- If you are making a salad of cucumbers and tomatoes, in which tomatoes must be present in the form of slices, it is advisable to choose medium-sized and immature tomatoes. For tomato fill, on the contrary, choose ripe or even overripe fleshy fruit.
- The Korean-style cucumber and tomato salad is often made from over-ripe vegetables for the winter, but the appetizer of young fruits is more palatable.
- A taste typical of Korean dishes, a tomato and cucumber snack, gives a certain set of spices. It includes garlic, a mixture of peppers, coriander. Additionally add nutmeg, cloves, turmeric. The ratio of spices can be adjusted based on your taste. Without experience, it is better to trust the recommendations in the recipe or use the ready-made mix of seasonings for Korean carrots, which are sold in many grocery stores.
- If you want the cucumbers in the salad to remain crispy, soak them for 1, 5-2 hours in cold water, do not subject to intense heat treatment and leave to cool without wrapping.
- Banks for cucumber and tomato salad in Korean should be sterilized, lids should be boiled. It is necessary to close such snacks with metal lids to ensure tightness. When using plastic covers to store the workpiece can only be in the refrigerator.
The storage conditions for Korean-style cucumber and tomato snacks depend on the recipe and technology used to make it. Typically, these canned goods are well at room temperature.
Korean cucumber and tomato salad for the winter
The composition (1, 5 l):
- cucumbers - 1 kg;
- tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
- sweet pepper - 0, 4 kg;
- hot peppers - 1 pc .;
- garlic - 7-8 cloves;
- fresh dill - 50 g;
- fresh parsley - 50 g;
- table vinegar (9 percent) - 60 ml;
- vegetable oil - 100 ml;
- sugar - 100 g;
- salt - 40 g;
- coriander - 5-10 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash greens, finely chop with a knife.
- Garlic cloves pass through the press.
- Peel both types of peppers, cut into pieces. Grind to a state of mashed potatoes with a blender or meat grinder.
- Mix the pepper puree with greens and garlic. Add ground coriander, refined vegetable oil, vinegar, sugar and salt to this mixture. Mix well.
- Wash cucumbers, cut off their tails. If the fruits are large, remove the coarse skin from them, remove the areas with large seeds. Cut the cucumber into blocks about 3-4 cm long, about 1-1.5 cm thick.
- Wash tomatoes, dry with a napkin. Remove seals in the stalk area. Cut the fruit into 4-8 pieces.
- Stir in cucumbers and tomatoes, pour in the spicy mixture and put in the fridge for 8-12 hours.
- Sterilize the jars and their lids.
- Spread the snack in cans, lightly tamping it with a spoon. Pour the pepper mixture.
- Cover the jars with lids. At the bottom of the pan lay a towel, put the banks on it. Pour water into the pan so that its level is on a par with the hangers of the cans.
- Place the pot on a slow fire, wait for the water to boil.
- Sterilize jars for 30-60 minutes, depending on their size (at the rate of 30 minutes per 0, 5 l).
- Carefully remove the jars from the pan and seal them tightly.
After the snack cans have cooled down, put them away in any cool place. It can be a cellar, an unheated storeroom, a refrigerator.
Cucumbers with tomatoes and other vegetables in Korean for the winter
The composition (1, 5 l):
- cucumbers - 0, 5 kg;
- tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
- zucchini - 0.5 kg;
- onions - 0, 25 kg;
- carrots - 0, 25 kg;
- salt - 20 g;
- sugar - 40 g;
- bitter capsicum - 2-3 pcs .;
- seasoning for Korean carrots - 15 g;
- garlic - 7-8 cloves;
- Apple Cider Vinegar (6%) - 100 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Wash, dry the vegetables.
- Cucumbers and zucchini cut into circles of 7-8 mm thick.
- Slice tomatoes into large slices.
- Free onion from the husk, cut into half rings, not too thin.
- Peel carrots, cut into slices. If it is large, you can cut it into halves or even quarters of circles.
- Hot pepper with seeds and partitions should be trimmed with thin rings.
- Chop the garlic cloves into medium-sized plates.
- Fold the vegetables into an enamel pan, sprinkle with salt, sugar and spices. Stir, press down with a load, put in the refrigerator for 5 hours.
- Add vinegar to the vegetable mixture, mix.
- Bring to a boil over low heat and boil for 5 minutes under a lid.
- Spread the salad over the prepared jars, tamp, pour the marinade.
- Hermetically seal. Leave to cool at room temperature.
The special storage conditions made by this recipe are not required. It can be removed in the pantry or any other place where you usually have such blanks.
Korean cucumbers with tomatoes
The composition (1, 5 l):
- cucumbers - 1 kg;
- tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
- sweet pepper - 0, 2 kg;
- hot pepper - 1 pc .;
- garlic - 5 cloves;
- vegetable oil - 100 ml;
- salt - 20 g;
- seasoning for Korean carrots - 15 g;
- apple cider vinegar (6%) - 150 ml;
- sugar - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Cucumbers grind grated for Korean salads.
- Cut the garlic into small pieces.
- Tomatoes boil, clean, perebite blender.
- Peel the seeds, grind both types of peppers with a blender or meat grinder.
- Pour cucumbers with a mixture of tomato and pepper puree, add salt, sugar, oil, vinegar.
- Boil for 10-15 minutes.
- Add garlic, boil for another 2-3 minutes.
- Distribute snacks on prepared banks, roll up.
A snack made according to this recipe can be stored at room temperature without fear that it will deteriorate.
Cucumbers with tomatoes in Korean style - a savory snack with a unique and very harmonious taste. It can be prepared for the winter according to several recipes, each of which has its own advantages.
