Plum pickled diner like olives: a delicious recipe for cooking for the winter

There are fruits that are inaccessible to ordinary people all year round fresh. Plum is one of them. From it you can cook not only sweet preparations for the winter. Plum snack, pickled like olives, has recently gained a lot of fans. The dish has an original sweet and sour taste. Can be a decent substitute for olives. Moreover, there are several recipes for preparing a specific snack.

Features of pickling plums like olives for the winter

In order for the treat to succeed, you need to follow simple rules. It is better to take the fruits of the Ugorka variety, which is sometimes called Hungarian. Water must be bottled. S alt is rock. In no case should you take other types of s alt. Vinegar can be poured in apple, wine.

Ingredients for the recipe

The special taste of the workpiece depends on what kind of marinade will be prepared, on what ingredients will be in it. First of all, it concerns spices. After all, different housewives prefer to use different seasonings:

• bay leaves and garlic;
• cloves, cinnamon and vanilla;
• chopped ginger root, dry thyme;
• ground black and allspice;
• thyme, rosemary.

In addition to spices, the marinade must contain water, rock s alt, granulated sugar and table vinegar (in the ratio of 1 liter of liquid and 2 tablespoons of the remaining ingredients).

How to prepare food properly?

The hostess must properly prepare the products. Otherwise, the workpiece may deteriorate quickly.

1. Unripe plums with intact skin and dense pulp are considered the best for pickling.
2. Fruits are carefully sorted out. Reject specimens that are too soft, overripe, or spoiled.
3. Then they are thoroughly washed under running cold water. At the same time, the stalks are removed.
4. Put raw plums on a clean cloth to drain the water.

The dish is prepared from fruits with and without a stone. In the first case, each plum is pierced with a fork or a toothpick. This is done so that the skin does not burst during heat treatment.

Preparation of containers

Fruits are placed in a well-washed sterilized container. Usually these are half-liter or liter glass jars.

When preparing them, make sure that cracks do not appear on the surface. Otherwise, when pouring hot marinade into containers, they will burst, and the products from them will have to be thrown away.

Cooking process

There are several recipes for making the original appetizer so that the finished plums resemble olives.

The process of creating a dish is as follows:

1. Plums are placed in containers.
2. The marinade is being prepared. Rock s alt, granulated sugar, spices are diluted in water. Bring to a boil, pour in table vinegar.
3. The contents of the cans are poured with a boiling solution.
4. The product must be sterilized.
5. Covered with steamed lids.
6. The container is placed on a horizontal surface with a lid down and wrapped with a warm cloth.

After it has completely cooled down, the appetizer is removed to a cold place.

Preservation storage

Canned plums are stored in the cellar or refrigerator for no longer than two years. The most important thing is not to let the snacks freeze.

Plums have become a favorite snack for Russians and residents of the CIS countries. They are served as an addition to meat, dishes from any fish and poultry. And some gourmets consume such fruits with alcoholic beverages. It is not a shame to put the workpiece both on the everyday and on the festive table.

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