The recipe for pickled cucumbers with apples. The most unusual cucumber blanks

Recipes for cooking cucumbers with apples for the winter today can be found in all cookbooks... For their better preservation, they are sterilized. However, there are recipes where this is not required. Next, we will consider general information on the selection and preparation of cucumbers with apples, as well as methods of salting these two products together.

Pickled cucumbers are a favorite Russian treat on the table. They are served as a full-fledged dish, added to salads and meats, and garnished with them. Pickled cucumbers with apples are a great solution for a festive and ordinary table. Fruits give them a sour taste and a pleasant crispy crust.

Selection and preparation of cucumbers and apples

Cucumbers that are best for pickling are no more than 12 centimeters in size. Their spines should be black. Smooth-textured cucumbers are not suitable for pickling. Moreover, they should not have yellow spots, which indicate their overripening.

Apples should be selected with firm pulp. Too juicy fruits contain an excessive amount of liquid.

Fruits should also be free from spots, cuts and bird-nibbled. At maturity, they should be a little immature. They have more sourness. Preparing vegetables and fruits for pickling includes washing and soaking. Soaking is necessary to get rid of excess nitrates and give them a unique crunch after conservation.

Methods for pickling cucumbers with apples for the winter

There are several ways to preserve cucumbers with apples. The first way is with acetic acid and sterilization, and the second method is without vinegar and sterilization. Adding fruit to preservation allows you to avoid using vinegar because of the natural acid in them. Let's consider both options.

Classic recipe

Pickled cucumbers, will be very useful in winter on your winter table for lunch or dinner. They will appeal to all household members.

V classic recipe pickled cucumbers, the following set of ingredients is required (for 1 three-liter container):

  • Cucumbers - 15 pieces.
  • Sour apples - 2 pieces.
  • Garlic - 3 cloves.
  • Dill - 50 grams.
  • Currants or cherries (leaves) - 2 pieces.
  • Bay leaf - 4 pieces.
  • Pepper with cloves - 8 pieces.
  • Sugar and salt - 3 small spoons.
  • Vinegar - 1 small spoon.
  • Water - 3 liters.

In order to pickle cucumbers, you need to wash and soak in cold water cucumbers for two to three hours. Cut the apples into beautiful slices and prepare the rest of the food.

After washing the cucumbers, you need to sterilize the jars and lids with boiling water. It is better to boil the lids. Then you should boil one and a half liters of water. During this, it is necessary to put all the products on the bottom of the jar.

As soon as all the products are laid out in the jars, you need to pour boiling water into the jars and leave them for 20 minutes. Then the resulting brine must be poured from a jar into a saucepan, add sugar and salt and boil it. After boiling, pour the prepared brine into jars, add vinegar and roll up.

The jars rolled into the lid must be turned over and placed under the blanket. When the cans have cooled, they should be moved to a cool, dark storage area for the winter. Or get the pickles for the guests on the table.


No vinegar

There is an interesting recipe for canning cucumbers without vinegar.

It is required to prepare the following set of products (for 1 three-liter container):

  • Cucumbers - 10 pieces.
  • Apples - 1 piece.
  • Lemongrass leaves - 10 pieces.
  • Water - 3 liters.
  • Salt and sugar - 1 small spoon.

After that, you can marinate the cucumbers with apples. First, vegetables and fruits should be washed and soaked for 2 hours. Then the apples need to be cut and put together with cucumbers in sterilized jars. Leaves should be placed on top. Then you need to do the preservation itself: boil the marinade, pour over the jars for 5 minutes, drain and boil it, and then pour it over the jars again.


At the end, you need to twist the cans, turn them upside down and put in a warm place. After cooling, it should be removed to a dark, cold place to preserve for the winter.

Without sterilization

Pickled cucumbers with apples without sterilization can do according to one of the most common recipes.

For liter cans you will need to take the following set of products:

  • Cucumbers - 10 pieces.
  • Apples - 1 piece.
  • Garlic - 1 clove.
  • Clove seasoning - 2 pieces.
  • Salt and pepper - 1 small spoon.
  • Vinegar - 1 small spoon.

First, you need to rinse vegetables, fruits and jars in water. At the bottom of the jars, you need to place chopped and peeled fruits, chopped garlic and whole cucumbers without thorns. Thornless cucumbers are crisper. Next, you need to boil the water and pour it into the jars, substituting a knife or spatula made of wood under them so that the jar does not burst when hot water is poured into it.

Then you should cover the jars with lids and let the marinade brew for 10 minutes. Then you need to drain everything back into the pan, boil and pour back into the jars, adding all the spices and seasonings to them. After that, you need to pour in vinegar and roll up the jars.

As soon as the jars are screwed on with lids, they need to be turned over and placed in a warm place to cool. When they have cooled down, they need to be removed to a dark, cold place for the winter, or they should be opened and placed on the table.

How much workpieces are stored

If you follow all the rules of pickling, pickles will stand for a year. Pickled cucumbers will be stored for the allotted time in a dark, cool basement, closet or mezzanine. In apartments, a cool dark wardrobe on the balcony is also perfect, where heat and rays of sunlight will not enter.

Pickled crispy cucumbers are a great snack for any festive feast, both in winter and summer. Therefore, in the summer you need to think about making supplies for the colder season, when you want to pamper yourself with vegetables. It is very important to be able to preserve so that they are tender, tasty, crispy and soaked in marinade. Here are cucumbers with apple cider vinegar for the winter. The billet is prepared without the traditional vinegar obtained by dilution vinegar essence, as well as without sterilization.

Pickled cucumbers with apple cider vinegar for the winter

pickled cucumber recipe with photo step by step

Ingredients:

  • cucumbers - 2 kg;
  • bulgarian pepper - 2 pcs.;
  • chili pepper - 0.5 pcs.;
  • garlic - 1 head;
  • apple cider vinegar - 150 ml.;
  • sugar - 4 tablespoons;
  • salt - 1.5 tbsp;
  • allspice - 3-4 peas;
  • cloves - 3-5 pcs.;
  • greens - 1 bunch.

Cooking process:

The bank must first be washed and sterilized in any way convenient for you. The most optimal is scalding with boiling water. Make sure that the jar is free of cracks or damage. It should also be perfectly clean. We will send a few cloves of garlic, peas, cloves, parsley, dill, horseradish to the bottom, you can add a few fresh leaves of currants, cherries or grapes for flavor.


The tails of cucumbers need to be cut off, and if they are large, cut into several pieces. Little gherkins will certainly be more beautiful and tastier. Ideally, each cucumber should be tasted so that the bitter does not end up in the jar. Bell pepper also cut into several pieces. For a more savory preservation, you can add a few chili peppers. Cucumbers, peppers, garlic and herbs must be tightly folded into the jar to the brim.


After the jar is full, add a few more peppercorns and cloves on top.


Boil water separately and fill the jar with it to the brim. We are waiting for the liquid in the jar to cool completely, pour it out and fill it with a new batch of boiling water. We wait again for the water to cool, but now we pour the water into the pan. Prepare a cucumber marinade with apple cider vinegar: bring the liquid to a boil and add salt, sugar and apple cider vinegar in turn. These ingredients in the recipe are indicated for 1 liter of marinade. But banks are always different. That is, after pouring the liquid from the can into the pan, you need to measure its amount in order to calculate the amount of ingredients for the marinade.


Bring to a boil cucumber pickle and fill it with a jar of vegetables. Now you can roll cucumbers for the winter, turn the jar over and leave for a while (preferably 2-3 days). If the lid is not swollen, then our seaming is ready. We send cucumbers with apple cider vinegar to a dark place to wait for winter.


Bon Appetit!

Thanks to Alima for the recipe and photos of canned cucumbers with apple cider vinegar.

Canned cucumbers with apples a rich combination of taste and aroma. Cucumbers are always crispy, juicy, and especially tender. Apples saturate cucumbers with their aroma, and give them a slight sourness. But apples according to this recipe are very tasty, somewhat similar to soaked ones, but stronger and even tastier.

Ingredients:

  • Cucumbers - 1 kilogram;
  • sour apples - 1 kilogram;
  • currant leaves - 10 pieces;
  • cherry leaves - 10 pieces;
  • dill - 2 branches.

To fill:

  • water - 1 liter;
  • salt - 2 tablespoons;
  • sugar - 2 tablespoons.

Step by step recipecanned cucumbers with apples

  1. Soak cucumbers in water for 4-5 hours, then wash well and pour over with boiling water.
  2. Wash apples too and pour over with boiling water.
  3. Place currant leaves, cherries and dill at the bottom of a 3 liter jar. Place the cucumbers and apples tightly, cover with boiling water and leave to cool.
  4. Prepare a filling of water, salt and sugar, boil.
  5. Drain the cooled water, pour boiling pour over the cucumbers with apples and roll up immediately.
  6. Upside down, wrap in a blanket until it cools completely.

Don't be afraid that canned cucumbers will explode with apples without vinegar, salt and sugar in them is enough for preservation. Apples also give their sourness.

There's a lot recipes for canning cucumbers but not everyone is lucky. We need the cucumbers to be crispy, the pickle spicy, aromatic.

I would like the cucumbers to fit for the salad, and it was just possible to cut into rings on a plate. There is one option 100%. A little troublesome, because the cucumbers will need to be sterilized, but the result will please you very much in winter. In a jar to cucumbers, it is necessary to add a leaf of young horseradish, an apple of the White filling variety and mustard grains.

For the preparation of crispy cucumbers with apples, we need - 3 hours, the number of servings - 5.

Ingredients:

  1. Fresh cucumbers - 500 grams
  2. Bitter pepper, fresh - to taste
  3. Garlic - 1 clove
  4. Sheet fresh horseradish- 1 piece
  5. Dill umbrellas - 3 pieces
  6. Laurel - 3 leaves
  7. Allspice peppers - 4 pieces
  8. French mustard - 1/2 tablespoon
  9. Apple White filling fresh - 1 piece
  10. Table vinegar - 3 tablespoons
  11. Fine salt - 2 teaspoons
  12. Sugar or honey - 1/2 tablespoon
  13. Water.

Crispy cucumbers with an apple in jars for the winter. Cooking steps:

Cucumbers for preservation must be chosen carefully. Firstly, they should not be too large, it is much more convenient to put small ones tightly in jars, and secondly, the cucumber will be crispy if it was just torn from the bush, namely fresh cucumbers turned out to be the most delicious, well, he could lie in the refrigerator for a day, no more. Thirdly, there are special varieties of cucumbers, specifically for preservation, they also have thin peel, small seeds, ask the seller for this.

Place the cucumbers on the table, along with all the spices. Wash the vegetables and trim the edges to half a centimeter. You can soak the cucumbers in ice water for a couple of hours before harvesting, if they are not very fresh.

Peel the garlic and pepper. Add bitter pepper at your discretion, and the pepper is different, not very bitter, 6 rings are enough for me, just cut the garlic into slices.

Wash the jar well, steam it if necessary, I have preservation and is so well stored in the basement. Wash and dry all greens for preservation. Horseradish leaf, preferably fresh, can be cut into 4 pieces. We put dill umbrellas, horseradish, laurel, garlic, hot pepper, allspice peas, French mustard in the jar. You can add any mustard that is in the house.

Cut the apple into thin strips, it doesn't matter, you can rub it on a grater. We put it in a jar cucumbers with apple alternately, but tightly, so that more vegetables fit.

Pour sugar, salt into a jar, pour vinegar and just just boiled water. It was possible to cook the brine separately.

Cover the jar with a new lid and place it in a saucepan for sterilization. At the bottom of the pot is any cloth or paper. Pour warm water on the shoulder of the can and turn on the fire. The cucumbers should simmer for 10 minutes over low heat.

Step 1: Prepare apples with cucumbers.

First of all, rinse the apple and cucumbers very thoroughly with a special brush or sponge. This is very important, since we will not peel vegetables or fruits.
After washing, dry the cucumbers and leave them intact, without even cutting off the ends. Cut the apple into small cubes, removing the twig and core with seeds.

Step 2: Preserve cucumbers with apples for the winter.


Immediately bring the water to the boil in a saucepan.
Meanwhile, put a bay leaf, a few peas of allspice, a whole clove, and cloves of garlic, peeled and cut into large pieces, on the bottom of the jar. Lay the apple slices in the next layer. Then an umbrella fragrant dill and lastly place the cucumbers in the jar, stacking them very tightly to each other.
Pour freshly boiled water into the jar. Wait 15-20 minutes, then drain the water back into the pot and boil again, then repeat this procedure again.

After we have poured cucumbers and apples with water twice, and have already poured it into the pan again, the liquid must be brought to a boil again, but this time adding salt and granulated sugar to it.

We return the water, which has become a brine, to the jar with cucumbers and apples, add right there 3 teaspoons vinegar. Important: Please note that the container must be filled to the very neck so that there is as little air as possible at the end.
Close the filled jar tightly with a lid and roll up. Wrap with a tea towel, turn upside down and leave to cool for a few hours. And only after the workpiece becomes room temperature, it can be turned back upside down and stored in a dark and cool place.

Step 3: Serve canned cucumbers with apples.



I open ready-made cucumbers with apples only in winter and only on holidays, otherwise they leave very quickly and imperceptibly. Usually I just cut everything into slices and lay out beautifully, but you can easily make a salad or sauce from such cucumbers. In any case, be sure to try canning cucumbers with apples, very tasty.
Bon Appetit!

V this recipe the ingredients are given per one liter can.

Those who do not like spicy pickles can add cherry twigs along with leaves and leaves of Chinese lemongrass instead of garlic, allspice, bay leaves, dill and cloves.

It is better to choose medium-sized cucumbers and apples for harvesting.