Usually, housewives use small or medium cucumbers for pickling. But it happens that the fruits strongly outgrow and become overripe. For classic blanks, they are no longer suitable. What then to do with them? Try to prepare a delicious salad of overripe cucumbers for the winter. The taste, of course, will not be classic, but no less interesting.

Yellowed fruits, which already have a thick and tough skin, are recommended to be peeled before cooking.

Large seeds are best removed. Therefore, for such cucumbers, recipes where they need to be cut are ideal.

To keep overgrown cucumbers longer, you can add a little vinegar to them.

Consider options for what to do with overripe cucumbers. With them, as a rule, most housewives make a salty snack.

Salting of ripe fruits

According to this recipe, you get an excellent independent snack or addition to pickle and vinaigrette. Fruits need to be cut into cubes, straws or circles, but large enough. They should be placed at the bottom of pre-sterilized jars almost to the very top. Put a little horseradish root, garlic cloves, cherry and currant leaves on top of the cucumbers. Next, you need to prepare the brine. It is enough to dissolve salt in boiling water (three tablespoons per liter). Pour the finished brine into jars, and then put them in a dark place and cover with a towel. After about eight hours, you can cork with lids.

Overripe cucumbers in Korean

You can safely add Korean carrots to salad recipes from overripe cucumbers for the winter. With it, the appetizer will turn out to be original, spicy and spicy. You can take ready-made Korean carrots, but it is better to make it yourself.

About two kilograms of overgrown cucumbers cut into large sticks. Peel and grate five hundred grams of carrots to prepare Korean carrots. Transfer the prepared vegetables to a suitable pot. Pour in half a glass. vegetable oil and table vinegar. Also add half a pack of Korean seasoning, half a glass of sugar and fifty grams of salt. Grind five cloves of garlic and add there too. Mix everything well and leave for four hours to soak the ingredients. After that, put a salad of overripe cucumbers in jars for the winter, cover with lids and sterilize for fifteen minutes.

Salad "Nezhinskiy"

It will take three kilograms of overripe cucumbers, seven hundred grams of onions, one hundred grams of dill, three tablespoons of sugar, two tablespoons of salt, a quarter cup of vegetable oil and the same amount of table vinegar.

Chop greens. Onion cut into half rings. Cucumbers cut across into four parts. Place vegetables, herbs and other ingredients in a saucepan. Mix everything and leave for thirty minutes. At this time, prepare jars and lids. After half an hour, arrange vegetable slices in containers. Put the salad directly in the jars in a pot of water, bring to a boil and hold for no more than half an hour. Carefully remove the snack and tighten the lids.

By the way, you can cook such a salad of overripe cucumbers for the winter without sterilization. But then in this case, before filling the containers, the vegetables should be pre-boiled for twelve minutes.

Cucumber salad "Tushenka"

Overgrown cucumbers are great for making an unusually tasty vegetable "stew". It perfectly complements meat, baked and other dishes. You will need overripe cucumbers themselves (about two kilograms). You also need half a kilogram of onions, three sweet peppers, a bunch of herbs, ten cloves of garlic, one hundred and fifty milliliters of vegetable oil, twenty grams of salt, half a teaspoon of citric acid and ground black pepper.

If the cucumbers are large and overripe, then it is better to remove the peel from them. Cut fruit into small cubes. Chop the garlic and herbs, and chop the onion and garlic into thin half rings. Heat vegetable oil in a deep frying pan. First put the cucumbers and fry until translucent. After that, add the rest of the ingredients and simmer a little.

Variation "Stew" with tomatoes

Salad of overripe cucumbers with tomatoes and carrots is also very tasty. They need to take about a kilogram. You can change the aspect ratio to your liking. It is also acceptable to replace the tomato with tomato paste, but ketchup or adjika will no longer work. The rest of the ingredients are the same as in the previous recipe.

Pass the carrots through a coarse grater or cut into pieces. Tomatoes are also chopped or chopped in a blender. First fry the cucumbers, then add the carrots. After ten minutes of stewing, put the tomatoes. After another five minutes, add onion, garlic and pepper to the pan. Simmer the vegetable mixture over low heat for about ten minutes. It remains to put salt, herbs and citric acid. Simmer for another ten minutes, stirring occasionally. Transfer the "stew" to sterile containers and close the lids. Cucumber salad in jars is recommended to be stored in the cellar.

Another way to cook "stew"

This recipe will require ten overgrown cucumbers. They need to be peeled and cut into small sticks. In a frying pan with heated vegetable oil, simmer the fruits until transparent. In the meantime, grate the carrots, dice the onion and two bell peppers. Add all the ingredients to the cucumbers and simmer for half an hour. Then place four chopped tomatoes in the pan. Simmer for another ten minutes and add salt, black pepper and sugar to taste. Hold on the stove for five minutes and arrange in sterilized jars.

Salad "Pikuli" from overgrown cucumbers

It is better to start preparing a salad of overripe cucumbers for the winter by preparing vegetables. Cut hot pepper into thin and long strips, as far as possible. Peel the cucumbers so that only one white part remains. Cut into slices about a centimeter wide and four centimeters long. So the vegetables will look a little like boats. Add the rest of the ingredients to the peppers and cucumbers: salt, vinegar and sugar. Mix everything well and leave to marinate. It is best to keep the salad in the refrigerator for at least an hour. sweat after this time, the snack will be ready, and it can be rolled into jars.

Salad "Family"

This salad is prepared from overripe cucumbers with tomato paste. The taste is original and unusual, but the appetizer is in perfect harmony with meat dishes. This recipe is sure to please the whole family!

To prepare a salad, you will need a lot of overripe cucumbers - about five kilograms. You also need to take a half-liter jar of tomato paste, one and a half glasses of sugar, three cloves of garlic, one third of a glass of salt, one hundred grams of vinegar and refined oil.

Rinse the cucumbers, preferably remove the skin and seeds. How you cut cucumbers for the winter - in circles, cubes or sticks, does not matter. Peel the garlic, finely chop or pass through a press. In a fireproof saucepan, combine vegetables and all remaining ingredients: sugar, salt, tomato paste, vinegar and oil. Simmer the contents under the lid on the lowest heat for about twenty minutes. You need to wait until the cucumbers let the juice out. After that, you can add fire to medium. When the appetizer boils, it must be stewed for another twenty minutes.

The finished dish is still hot, it remains to decompose into sterile jars and roll up. Experienced housewives recommend adding to this salad mustard powder, adjika or hot pepper to make the workpiece sharper.

Caviar from overripe large cucumbers

For a kilogram of overripe cucumbers, you need to take the same amount of red tomatoes, half a kilogram of red carrots and bell peppers, as well as one large onion. Black pepper and salt can be added to your taste.

For caviar, as you know, all vegetables must be chopped. Therefore, tomatoes and carrots should be grated coarsely, and cucumbers, peppers and onions should be cut into small cubes. If desired, all vegetables can be pureed with a blender, but then the appetizer will acquire a slightly different taste. However, this is a great option if you are tired of making preparations for the winter with cucumbers in circles.

Send all chopped vegetables to stew in a pan for one hour. Be sure to stir otherwise the mixture will burn. If desired, onions and cucumbers can be lightly fried in vegetable oil beforehand. Then the salad will taste more like vegetable caviar. But in this case, it will become less useful. On which option to stop - it's up to you. Let's get back to the salad. After stewing, add pepper, salt to the vegetables and mix. Simmer in the skillet for about five more minutes.

Next, you can lay out the finished caviar from cucumbers in sterilized jars, if you are used to doing so. Some housewives recommend adding a tablespoon of vinegar to the appetizer immediately after turning off the stove. If you plan to eat a salad in the near future, then it is enough to decompose it into clean containers and put it in the refrigerator after cooling. It will keep well there for several days.

You were presented with all the most delicious and popular recipes for overripe cucumber salads for the winter. Which one to choose depends on taste preferences and storage method. Some are lost in the last question, so it is worth paying a little attention to it.

How to store salads from overgrown cucumbers?

Preparations for the winter from overripe cucumbers that have been subjected to any sterilization must be kept in a cool place. Although they are perfectly stored at room temperature, the absence of direct sunlight must be a prerequisite, otherwise the contents of the jars will deteriorate ahead of time. But salads from overripe cucumbers for the winter, which were closed without sterilization, must be kept strictly in a cold room. It is recommended to put the jars in the cellar or basement. If there is no such place, then the bottom shelf of the refrigerator is perfect.

How to use cucumber salads?

As practice shows, it is best to eat snacks from overripe cucumbers no earlier than five weeks after preparation. During this time, the salad will have time to infuse, so it will be more tasty. It is usually served cold as an appetizer. But some people like to use cucumber blanks as a side dish. Preliminarily, it is laid out on a plate and heated in the microwave or on the stove. This dish is served with meat, poultry or fish.

Do you have overripe cucumbers? What to do with them, now you know. They can make completely different, but always delicious preparations for the winter. They will save money and save the fruits grown with such difficulty.

Any diligent summer resident, undoubtedly, rejoices at a good harvest - which means that both in winter and in summer there will be delicious vegetables on the table. However, sometimes there are reasons for disappointment. Imagine that one day you missed the moment of picking cucumbers - you went on vacation or on business. Returning to the dacha, you open a greenhouse - and there are either zucchini, or pumpkins - in a word, overgrown cucumbers. Such, you know, with a thick skin, large grains - as in the photo.

Few people love these overgrown fruits, because small cucumbers taste much better, and they look much better in a salad. You can, of course, by a strong-willed decision to send overgrown cucumbers directly to the compost heap, even if they serve as fertilizer for future generations. But it's not so easy to take and throw away 2-3 buckets of your work, even in the form of overgrown cucumbers. Why not preserve them for the winter in the form of a salad? There is a bunch of simple recipes such a salad for the winter.

Let's start with the simplest. Not everyone likes to make canned food with hot brine for the winter, so we will try to prepare a salad with cold filling for the winter.

Recipe 1. Salad of overgrown cucumbers with cold pickle

You will need:

• 1 kilogram of overgrown (or just large) cucumbers
• 2 medium onions
• 10 cloves of garlic (you can use less if you want to make the salad not too spicy)
• 3 teaspoons salt
• 100 grams of sugar
• 3 tablespoons table vinegar (9%)

Wash cucumbers and cut into slices (no need to peel). The circles should be quite thick, about a centimeter. Onion cut into rings or half rings. Squeeze the garlic or finely crush it in a mortar.

All vegetables mix in a bowl or saucepan. Salt, sprinkle with sugar, sprinkle with vinegar. We cover with a lid. We send it to the refrigerator for 12 hours, we wait until the cucumbers start up the juice. Gnat is not needed.

Sterilize and cool jars. Arrange cold salad in jars. It is important that there is enough juice - it must completely cover the cucumbers. We cork the jars and send them to the refrigerator or basement to wait for winter.

Recipe 2. Cold salad of grated overgrown cucumbers

You will need:

My overgrown cucumbers rub on a coarse grater. You don't need to peel off the skin.

Salt the grated cucumbers. Salt promotes the secretion of juice. After some time, the juice will need to be drained into a separate container - this is the future basis of the brine.

Finely chop the greens, cut the onion into thin half rings. Mix with cucumber mixture. Add allspice, salt and sugar.

The mixture is placed in pre-sterilized jars, pour juice from cucumbers. Leave to stand for 15 minutes, pour the juice into a saucepan and boil it over low heat. Add the vinegar essence to the juice.

We fill the jars again with brine, leaving a little space. Top the jar with vegetable oil and roll up the lid.

Recipe 3. Spicy Korean salad of overgrown cucumbers

Another recipe for a cold salad of overgrown cucumbers is Korean style cucumbers. The spice mixture is important here - it is she who gives a special taste to this dish. Make such a salad, and you will be pleased to savor it in the winter.

You will need:

Cucumbers, as usual, wash and cut into large strips(you can remove large seeds).

We rub the carrots. It is better to use a special grater for Korean salads, but a regular grater will do. Mix cucumbers and carrots, squeeze garlic. Add salt and sugar, then vegetable oil and vinegar. Sprinkle with black pepper. Mix again. Leave the salad in the refrigerator.

After 2 hours, take the salad out of the refrigerator, add mustard and coriander - do not forget to try. It is better to add spices gradually so as not to spoil the taste of the dish.

We lay out the salad in pre-sterilized jars. We send for storage in the refrigerator.

Recipe 4. Salad of stewed overgrown cucumbers

Having mastered cold canning, you can move on to more complex recipes salads for the winter, where you need to pour vegetables with boiling marinade or stew.

You will need:

• Overgrown cucumbers - 2-3 kilograms
• 5-6 large onions
• 7-8 garlic cloves
• 3 tablespoons of sugar
• 100 ml table vinegar
• 2 tablespoons salt
• Vegetable oil
• Black pepper (peas)
• Parsley, dill and other herbs to taste

My cucumbers. Leave in a bowl, bowl or saucepan to soak for one hour in cool water. Cut into circles, preferably thin. You can also cut the cucumbers into strips, after clearing them of large seeds. Finely chop the onion. Mix with cucumbers.

Now put the mixture in a large bowl, put pepper, sugar and salt, mix again. We do not turn on the fire - cucumber juice should appear first.

After 30 minutes, turn on the stove, wait until the cucumbers change color. Pour them with vegetable oil and vinegar, wait for the boil.

Squeeze the garlic into the pan, finely chop the greens and also add to the cucumbers. We mix.

After a few minutes, lay out in washed sterilized jars. Banks can be wrapped in a blanket or towel to cool more slowly. After cooling, put in the refrigerator.

Recipe 5. Salad of overgrown cucumbers with hot marinade

For each liter jar For this salad you will need:

• 1 kilogram of large cucumbers
• Several sprigs of dill
• 4-5 small cloves of garlic
• Allspice (or black) pepper (7-8 peas)
• 1-2 dried cloves
• Salt - 1 tablespoon
• 1/4 cup vinegar (9%)
• Sugar - 3 tablespoons

my cucumbers and cut into circles(no need to peel or remove seeds).

We sterilize jars. We put pepper, cloves and garlic, as well as washed dill, on the bottom of the jars. We fill the jar with cucumber rings - there should be little free space, the cucumbers should be tightly packed (see photo).

In a saucepan, you need to prepare a brine. Pour a liter of water, dilute vinegar, add sugar, salt. When it boils, fill jars with hot solution, cover with lids. After a quarter of an hour, the jars will cool down, and the brine will absorb the aroma of cucumbers.

Now we pour the brine back into the pan and boil, and then pour it into jars and close them with lids. Again, recommended chill jars slowly and store in a cool place.

In fact, these are ordinary pickled cucumbers, only cut into rings, and not put in whole jars.

Recipe 6. Overgrown cucumbers pickled with rolls

There is one more interesting recipe overgrown cucumber salad. Sometimes this dish is called "Teschiny tongues". Why it is called that, you will understand when you read the recipe and look at the photo.

You will need:

Let's prepare the marinade first. Dilute vinegar in 1 liter of water. We turn on the fire. When it boils, let it cool.

My cucumbers. Remove the skin, remove large seeds cut into long strips. Cooking gruel from chopped herbs and garlic. We take a large container, put cucumbers in layers in it. Sprinkle the layers with salt, herbs and garlic. Pour over the marinade. Keep under pressure in the refrigerator for one day.

We take out the cucumbers from the refrigerator - now they are soft and easily rolled into small rolls by snails. Drain the marinade and boil again. We lay out the rolls and greens in pre-sterilized jars, add the marinade and close the lids.

Recipe 7. Caviar from overgrown cucumbers with tomatoes

You will need:

• 2 kilograms of overgrown cucumbers
• Kilogram of tomatoes
• 4 sweet bell peppers
• 5 large onions
• 600 grams of carrots
• salt - 3 tablespoons
• vegetable oil

First, wash and clean the vegetables (do not clean the tomatoes). Cucumbers are peeled.

Finely chop the onion, grate the carrot. Fry carrots with onions in vegetable oil.

Three cucumbers on a coarse grater, grind tomatoes with a meat grinder or mash with a blender (you can not remove the skin). bell pepper cut into large cubes.

We put all vegetables, including onions and carrots, in a saucepan and simmer over low heat for a little more than half an hour. Don't forget to salt.

While the vegetables are stewing, let's prepare the jars - for this amount of food you will need 4 carefully sterilized liter jars. We lay out the caviar in jars and roll up the lids. We cool.

Cucumber salad for the winter

Published: 03.11.2016
Posted by: FairyDawn
Calories: Not specified
Cooking time: not specified

You know, as often happens with summer residents - you come to the dacha on weekends, and the cucumbers have not yet ripened, only one ovary and bloom. And when you arrive a couple of days later, you already pick huge overgrowths from the branches, and how do they manage to grow so quickly? I have never been able to find young cucumbers of the size I need this year, each time either gherkins or overripe fruits.
So you have to close what is, and with such a crop, you will agree, it is not easy to cope, because the choice of conservation is small. Most often I make salads, then you don’t have to worry that the cucumbers are large, because they still need to be cut.
But such an appetizer is just a godsend for a family dinner and is suitable for any occasion. I like to open a jar of such an appetizer for meat dishes, as such cucumbers perfectly set off the meat taste, filling it with fresh notes and aromas. I advise you to cook this one for spicy lovers.
The advantage of such a snack, of course, is the cooking method, which absolutely does not require sterilization and complex technological processes. We make a regular salad of cucumbers and onions, add finely chopped greens, spices and spices. And after 3 hours, we warm up the salad mass a little and immediately transfer it to sterilized jars. We close the salad of overripe cucumbers for the winter without sterilization with lids and keep it in a dry place, for example, in the pantry or in the basement.
The recipe is designed for 4 cans, with a capacity of 0.5 l




Ingredients:

- fresh cucumbers - 2 kg.,
- fresh dill - 300 gr.,
- turnip onion - 300 gr.,
- white crystalline sugar - 3 tablespoons,
- coarse kitchen salt - 1.5 tablespoons,
- table vinegar (9% - 7 tablespoons,
- vegetable oil (deodorized) - 12 tbsp.

Step by step recipe with photo:

We sort out cucumbers, small strong fruits can be set aside for another recipe, but any will do for us. We cut off the tips on both sides and soak the fruits for 3-4 hours so that they gain moisture.
Then we wipe them dry and cut them as it is more convenient for us - slices or circles.




We wash the peeled onion and finely chop the rings.




We sort through the dill greens, do not use the wilted twigs, and wash the rest in ice water, dry and then finely chop.
Mix cucumbers and onions in a bowl, add finely chopped greens. I still like to cook like this.




Next, add salt and crystalline sugar. Pour oil into the salad (refined so that it does not have impurities and odors) and table vinegar. Mix the salad and let it brew for 3 hours.

Next, bring the salad in this bowl to a boil and boil for no more than 6-8 minutes at medium heat.




Then we put the salad in pre-prepared sterilized jars and quickly roll up the lids.
Further, everything, as usual - we turn it over, wrap it up and put it in a day, the recipe without sterilization, on the shelf a new portion of preservation.




Bon Appetit!

Traditionally, cucumbers are harvested for the winter in salted or pickled form. There are also salad recipes combined with other vegetables. But what if you are late with the harvest, and the cucumbers are slightly overripe? In this case, options for harvesting precisely from such vegetables will come to the rescue. You can make a salad of overripe cucumbers for the winter or caviar. In this way, you use the entire harvest and will delight the family which is especially good in winter, as a memory of summer.

delicious salad

A salad of overripe cucumbers for the winter is not inferior in taste to preparations from young vegetables. For cooking, take 10 kilograms of cucumbers, 10 grams of 50 grams of garlic and 700 grams of coarse salt and dill inflorescences. We wash all the components, and peel the garlic and cut into small pieces. Peppers are cleaned from seeds and cut into rings. Grind half of the cucumbers with a grater and mix with salt. The remaining vegetables (we choose the smallest ones) are placed in a bucket, sprinkled with seasonings, spices and a mixture of overripe cucumbers. The remaining space is filled with cold water, which should cover all the vegetables. Keep cucumbers in a warm place for 3-5 days. Then we transfer them to jars and close. Store in a cold place.

Cucumbers with vinegar

The overripe salad offered here can be prepared quickly and easily. This option with the addition of vinegar and vegetable oil has a pleasant taste and a slight spiciness. Take 2 kilograms of overripe cucumbers, half a glass of sugar, the same amount of vegetable oil, 6 peeled garlic cloves, a third of a glass of vinegar (9%), a large spoonful of ground pepper and two tablespoons of salt. Salad of overripe cucumbers (for the winter - that's it!) Lovers of spicy food will like it. The main product is washed, peeled and cut into pieces. Grind greens and garlic in any way. We put all the ingredients in a suitable container and add pepper and salt. Mix everything well and pour in the vinegar and oil. We leave the cucumbers to marinate for 4 hours. Then we transfer to clean jars, tamping well. By this time they will give juice - there should be enough of it in each jar. Then, if you are going to store the workpiece for a long time, we put the containers to be sterilized. Next, roll them up with lids and put them in a cold place after cooling. It will not work to cook a salad of overripe cucumbers for the winter without cooking, so it’s better not to be lazy and do everything right. If you decide to simply diversify the summer or even autumn menu, such a dish can be served as an appetizer almost immediately.

Caviar

If the ingredients are cut more finely, then caviar is obtained, which can be prepared even from overripe cucumbers. What is needed for this? For cooking, you will need 5-6 large cucumbers, onions, 5 tomatoes, three medium-sized carrots, 2 sweet peppers, a small spoonful of salt, ground pepper and vegetable oil. We wash all the vegetables, remove the skin and seeds from the cucumbers and cut them into small cubes. Do the same with peppers and onions. Three carrots with a grater, and from tomatoes we make tomato juice. Take a saucepan with a thick bottom and pour vegetable oil into it. Then we put the cucumbers and simmer them until half the juice has evaporated. Next, add all the other vegetables. Now you need to salt and pepper the caviar to taste. Simmer until the excess liquid has evaporated. Do not forget to stir the dish so that the vegetables do not burn. We lay out the caviar in prepared jars and close the lids.

Important point! If you cut the vegetables larger, you will get not caviar, but a banal salad of overripe cucumbers. For the winter (without sterilization, however, it can stand for quite some time), it is removed to the basement or refrigerator.

There are many original recipes, which will help the hostess to use the entire crop, regardless of the degree of ripeness of the fruit. One of them will be discussed in the next section.

Let's take a kilogram of overripe cucumbers, three cloves of garlic, a little horseradish root and 20 grams of salt. For the marinade, you will need 100 g of sugar, 150 g of vinegar, two tablespoons of mustard and a liter of liquid. Peel the cucumbers from the peel and seeds and cut them into pieces. Then sprinkle with salt and leave for 10 hours, putting oppression on top. Then we drain the juice, and put the cucumbers in jars with grated horseradish and chopped garlic. Prepare the marinade by mixing everything necessary ingredients and boiling it. Fill the jars with cucumbers and close the lids. Lettuce is stored in a cold place. For longer storage, it must also be sterilized.

Vegetable mix

Assorted vegetables look very nice both in jars and on the table. A salad of overripe cucumbers, prepared for the winter, will help you out at the right time, when sudden guests are on the doorstep, and you need to serve a snack. For cooking, you will need a kilogram of cucumbers, two large carrots, two sweet peppers, horseradish root, three cloves of garlic. We clean the cucumbers from seeds and peel and cut into long bars. Carrots and peppers are also peeled and cut in the same way. Grind garlic and horseradish. We put spices at the bottom of each jar, and then we put vegetable sticks, filling the entire space. First, fill the containers with simple boiling water and leave for 20 minutes. Then drain the liquid and add two large spoons of salt, 4 tablespoons of sugar and a small spoonful of vinegar essence (per liter of water) to it. Boil the marinade and fill it with jars of vegetables. It turns out a rather interesting salad of overripe cucumbers for the winter. Recipes, by the way, can be supplemented with various spices. At the end of the process, we close the containers with lids, wrap them up and put them in a cool place after they have cooled completely.

Fragrant salad

For 6 kilograms of cucumbers, we take 6 heads of garlic, three tablespoons of seasoning for Korean carrots, six large tablespoons of salt and three tablespoons of dill. Cut the vegetables into pieces and mix with the rest of the ingredients. We leave the salad for three hours. For the marinade, take 750 milliliters of vinegar (9%), 30 large spoons of sugar and 100 milliliters of vegetable oil.

Cook the mixture until all ingredients are dissolved. Then add the marinade to the cucumbers and leave the salad for another 6 hours. After that, we lay it out in jars and sterilize. Close with lids and store in a cool place. The taste of the salad is amazing due to the amount of all the ingredients.

2017-10-08

Hello my dear readers! I won't finish the harvesting season at all. I thought that it would be the last preparation of this fall. But I had to cook another salad of overgrown cucumbers for the winter.

The end of September is a fabulously beautiful time in Transcarpathia! The morning air is clean, transparent and delicious. Dew drops on the fragile shoulders of blades of grass are crystal. I go out on the terrace in the morning, shivering a little - it's cold!

But during the day, summer heat reigns supreme. This is what deceptively makes cucumbers outgrow and even overripe very quickly. You miss a moment a little, and instead of thin beauties you get such “beads”.

My cucumbers have a hooligan habit. They hide from me, taking advantage of the blindness of the hostess. It seems to have collected everything, but no - in the evening I notice a couple more, then another. And not all of them differ in salting conditions. We have to be creative in order to utilize the entire crop of our modest cucumber "plantation".

A long time ago, when ladies in evening dresses and men in strict "office" suits still went to the first Moscow McDonald's, I liked the taste of cucumber "McDonald's salad". We didn’t have love with fast food, but I still cook and prepare a similar salad for the winter from overgrown and even overripe cucumbers.

"Slender girls" traditionally go for cooking. How can winter be without Olivier, pickles and saltworts?

Even on my ten lashes of cucumbers, up to two kilograms of overgrown fruits are gained in a week. What can we say about large gardens and cottages! There is a lot of waste in the manufacture of salad. But without processing, you can have all the fruits in the waste, and not just the peel and seeds. Let's get started!

Overgrown cucumber salad for the winter - recipes

Salad of fresh overgrown cucumbers - you will lick your fingers

Ingredients

• 2200 g overgrown cucumbers (gross).
• 10 ml 9% vinegar.
• 50-70 g of granulated sugar.
• 20 g mild mustard (non-spicy, preferably with seeds).
• 100 g onions (one medium onion).
• One Bell pepper any color.
• 17-20 g of salt.

How to cook

My remarks

Salad of salted or pickled overgrown cucumbers for the winter - you will lick your fingers

Ingredients

• 5-6 pickled or pickled cucumbers.
• 2 bell peppers.
• 1 large onion.
• 120 ml of white wine vinegar (50 ml of 9% table vinegar - in extreme cases).
• 120 g sugar.
• One tablespoon Dijon or Bavarian mustard
• Salt.

How to cook

• Remove seeds from washed peppers. Remove skin from onion. Chop vegetables, including pickled or pickled cucumbers, into small cubes.
• Throw in a saucepan, put sugar, mustard, vinegar. Cook for about twenty minutes. Taste and add salt to taste if needed.
• Pack hot salad in jars, put on lids, wrap up.

Salad of overgrown cucumbers in tomato sauce for the winter

Great recipe! For him, you need to take exactly overgrown cucumbers, and not neat young cucumbers. After all, "kids" can be pickled and pickled crispy cucumbers for the winter in jars.

And where do we usually send overgrown ones? Right! Into the compost pit. It is sad, but we will help cucumbers of "Balzac age" to avoid an unenviable fate and delight us in winter with their wonderful taste in a salad with tomato dressing.

Ingredients

• One kilogram of overgrown cucumbers.
• Two onions.
• One head of garlic.
• 4-5 black peppercorns.
• 60 g sugar.
• One teaspoon of salt.
• 150 g good tomato paste.
• 450 ml of water (spring, filtered, well).
• 60 ml vegetable oil.
• 60 ml table vinegar (9%).

How to cook

Salad "Tushenka" from overgrown cucumbers for the winter without sterilization

A wonderful salad to preserve these October days! In the gardens, many have accumulated not only overgrown cucumbers, but also brown, green tomatoes, “non-standard” carrots, and peppers.

Salad "stew" can serve not only as an appetizer, but also as a hot side dish, dressing for soup. Add homemade sausage to the salad and you get a wonderful second course!

All these raw materials are great for cooking. delicious salad under the touchingly familiar name "stew". I do not indicate the number of ingredients, because each composition and proportions will be different.

Ingredients

• Overgrown cucumbers.
• Green, brown, red tomatoes.
• Bulgarian and hot peppers different colors.
• Carrot.
• A little table vinegar, tomato and vegetable oil.
• Salt, sugar.

How to cook

1. Wash the cucumbers, cut off the rough skin, pull out the seeds, cut into circles or "semicircles".
2. Pour a little vegetable oil into a saucepan, put cucumbers, cook until the slices become transparent.
3. Prepare the rest of the vegetables: wash, peel the carrots, remove the seeds from the peppers. Cut everything into small slices, throw in cucumbers.
4. Simmer until all ingredients are soft.
5. Salt, put sugar, vinegar and tomato to taste. Let it boil.
6. Pack in small jars (500-700 ml), roll up, turn over, wrap up.
7. Send cold canned food to the pantry for the winter.

I gave you today only those overgrown cucumber salad recipes that I myself have tried and approved. The most favorite for me is the first recipe - really "you will lick your fingers" and the taste is completely unbanal.

Go ahead, my dear readers! You will certainly get wonderful preparations for the winter. I always want to try to cook similar