Cucumber snack for winter

Delicious and simple cucumber snack for winter! Such a snack is often prepared for the winter by summer residents at the end of the summer season, since cucumbers are cut into halves of roundels in this preparation, then any size will fit and not necessarily only young ones.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 8 % 1 g
Fats 31 % 4 g
Carbohydrates 62 % 8 g
70 kcal
GI: 57 / 0 / 43

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 6 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare the ingredients. Cucumbers can be taken of any size and shape, and the degree of maturity is also not important. Therefore, the preparation of such a snack can be called an excellent opportunity to attach vegetables of a non-market type. Of course, spoiled and rotten cucumbers are not suitable for her.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Cucumbers are well washed under running water and soaked in cold water for a couple of hours, then they will be especially crispy and delicious in the salad. After the specified time, we drain the water, rinse the cucumbers again, cut off the ends on both sides of the cucumbers. We dry the cucumbers and cut them into halves of circles.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Peel the onions and cut them into half rings as well as cucumbers.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Peel a few cloves of garlic and cut into thin plates.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Put the vegetables in a deep saucepan, mix. Add a few peas of black pepper.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Cooking the marinade. In a bowl, combine sugar, salt, vegetable oil and add a tablespoon of vinegar. Mix everything thoroughly so that the sugar and salt dissolve. Pour the resulting marinade vegetables in a saucepan. Mix them, cover the pan with a lid and leave for 5-6 hours to infuse. You can leave a cucumber snack for the night. During this time, the cucumbers will let the juice and marinate well.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Sterilize small cans in a water bath or in an oven (it is more convenient to use 0.5 l cans). Boil the lids. Mix the salad again and put it in sterilized jars. Cover the jars with lids. We put them in a saucepan with water, at the bottom of which we lay a cotton cloth. And sterilize the snack cans for 15 minutes (0.5 liters). We take out the jars, roll them up, let them cool down upside down, covered with a warm blanket

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Store the snack until winter in a cold pantry. Bon appetit!

It takes very little time to prepare the ingredients for the snack directly, they cook quickly, but it turns out delicious and well stored.

To keep the jars with blanks for a long time, read the basic rules, secrets and life hacks about preparations for the winter.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Fresh cucumbers - 15   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Black pepper peas - 255   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Table vinegar - 11   kcal/100g

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