Assorted tomatoes and cucumbers for the winter: canning recipes

In salads, both summer and winter, housewives love to combine vegetables, getting unexpected tastes. Therefore, many do not refuse recipes for assorted tomatoes and cucumbers for the winter, as they allow, by opening a jar, to get vitamins and minerals in the complex. Moreover, fresh cucumbers are flavored with tomato acid, which improves the taste of the workpiece.

Features of cooking assorted cucumbers and tomatoes for the winter

Pickling cucumbers with tomatoes in one jar is a pleasure. Cucumbers usually ripen before tomatoes. And after a large number of green pickles, you can combine the last fruits with tomatoes that have begun to sing.

Packing is done in such a way that the tomatoes do not wrinkle. Green cucumbers fit the place at the bottom of the jar, and the tomatoes are placed on top. Under the action of boiling water, they become tender and may crack. Better not to press them down.

Various spices are used in the preparation of assorted products for the winter. But if you choose peppercorns, then garlic cloves are better suited to them. Mustard seeds go well with ginger. Preservation of vegetables is not complete without fragrant herbs. The pleasant smell of the assortment is provided by dill umbrellas, bunches of parsley, celery, basil.

Selection and preparation of main ingredients

Before canning, fruits are prepared:

You should choose small cucumbers with a length of 7-10 centimeters. Zelentsy with small pimples are very tasty. They retain elasticity for a long time, crunch.
Tomato fruits should be the same medium length or small cherry type. If the skin is strong, then it will withstand the action of hot water and will not crack. The pulp should be fleshy, and the taste should be sweet
You can combine vegetables with squash and zucchini. Pumpkins of milk ripeness are suitable for canning.
If pepper is added to the jar, then it is either Bulgarian or salad.

All ingredients are washed, cut if necessary. The stalks are removed from the fruits.

How to properly prepare the container for the start of the process

So that the containers with assorted do not swell and explode and the work is not in vain, glass jars should be:

wash with hot water;
rinse thoroughly with warm water and baking soda;
sterilize by placing in a heated oven for half an hour;
hold under hot steam for 15-20 minutes.

Many people advise adding 30 ml of vodka, a handful of red currants or half a teaspoon of citric acid before seaming. If the cans are processed according to the rules, then the workpiece will stand for a long time.

Recipes for harvesting cucumbers with tomatoes

There are many ways to cook assorted cucumbers and tomatoes. Each housewife has her own cherished recipe, which she constantly improves. But you can try others. First make 2-3 jars. Next year, if you like the assortment, they cook more.

Classic recipe

Preservation is carried out using:

the same number of tomatoes and cucumbers;
greenery;
garlic and peppercorns, black and allspice;
marinade.

For the brine, which will be filled with jars with vegetables laid a second time, for 1.5 liters of water you need 3 tablespoons of s alt, sugar, 9% vinegar. First, cucumbers and tomatoes are kept in jars in cold water for 4 hours, then for 20 minutes in boiling water.And only at the end - a hot marinade. They wrap the blanks, and when the jars have cooled, they put them in storage.

Simple recipe without sterilization for 1 liter jar

3-liter jars with pickled fruits do not always keep well. Yes, and eat them under the power of a large family. But it is convenient to roll cucumbers with tomatoes into liter ones, and sterilization is not required.

The cooking method of this recipe is not much different from the classic one. Cherry leaves, currants, dill umbrella are placed at the bottom of the container. Then comes the turn of the cucumbers, and the tomatoes are carefully placed on top.

Water is needed for a 1-liter jar only 0.5 liters. Pour 1 tablespoon of s alt into boiling water. Sugar take 2 times more. Vinegar is prepared 9%. And it is added when the marinade is removed from the fire. Fruits are scalded with hot water 1 time, holding in boiling water for 10 minutes. And if you are afraid that the assortment will go bad, you can pour 50 ml of vodka instead of sterilization.

Together with zucchini

Adding small pieces of young zucchini to the jars will make the taste of the platter softer. On 2 small zucchini take 1 cucumber, 3-4 tomatoes. Zucchini is cut either in circles or in pieces. It is better to pierce the skin of tomatoes with a fork. The taste will be made with unusual peppercorns, cloves, bay leaves, dill. For spiciness, preserve with garlic.

At the bottom of the jar should be zucchini with cucumbers, and tomatoes on top. Scalded with boiling water, holding for 10 minutes. Then, after draining the water, it's time for the hot marinade.

No Vinegar

Acetic acid can be replaced in recipes for pickled preparations. Canned in a new way with apple juice. They take a kilogram of cucumbers and tomatoes, wash them and put them in a glass container. 2 apples are cut into slices and also sent to a jar. The marinade is prepared on the basis of apple juice diluted with water (1.25 liter glass).As usual, take s alt (3 tablespoons), sugar (2 tablespoons). Sweet peas of pepper, bay leaf are added to the marinade. From herbs in assorted dill can be put. Garlic cloves wouldn't hurt either.

With citric acid

Citric acid is taken to prepare the marinade to replace vinegar in it. It is necessary to pour assorted tomatoes and cucumbers with brine a second time. For him, pour into water with a volume of 1.5 liters:

60 grams of granulated sugar;
30 - s alt;
as many crystals of citric acid.

Before rolling cans of vegetables, they are poured 2 times with boiling water, kept for 10 minutes, draining the water. Then boiling marinade.

With aspirin

Acetyl tablets are used by many housewives for canning. You can add tablets when preparing assorted for the winter. For a 3-liter blank you will need:

1 kilogram of cucumbers and tomatoes;
6 garlic cloves;
horseradish leaf;
dill umbrellas;
black and allspice peas;
a few bay leaves;
3 aspirins.

Everything is put into jars to fill the gaps. Tablets must be crushed and poured into a container. Pour so much sugar, s alt, vinegar into a container of water, as the hostess usually does. Vegetables are poured with hot brine, twisted with iron lids. Then shake the jars vigorously to dissolve the aspirin.

In a sweet marinade

Exquisite assorted recipe will decorate the festive table. Take for cooking at:

700 grams of ripe tomatoes and cucumbers;
tassel of green grapes;
sweet bell pepper pod;
half a carrot.

From spices you need garlic cloves, horseradish leaves, allspice and black pepper. Harvesting is not complete without dill, bay leaf, cherry and currant leaf. You can take a head of onion.

Put as many herbs, spices as possible into the jar, put cucumbers vertically. It is better to cut onions and carrots into circles, and peppers into slices. Empty spaces are filled with grapes. Tomatoes are laid on top.

For the first time, pour all the ingredients with boiling water. After 10-15 minutes, the water is poured out, and then the sweet marinade. Take 2 times less s alt than sugar. Vinegar needs 9%.

With patissons

Squash pumpkin should choose a small one. 6 centimeters in diameter are placed whole in a jar. And the middle fruits must be cut. The remaining components are traditional: pepper, garlic, dill, bay leaf. Other herbs and spices are added as desired.

In the marinade for pouring vegetables there is s alt with sugar, vinegar.

With cabbage

Cabbage, tomatoes and cucumbers are often combined in one jar. Take a small head of cabbage. It is cut into slices. Fold the cabbage pieces together with other vegetables. You should put circles of carrots and slices of bell pepper. For 1.5 liters of water you need to take:

30 grams of s alt;
60 grams of sugar;
10 - citric acid;
a few peppercorns;
2-3 bay leaves;
sprig of parsley;
basil leaves.

Pour vegetables with marinade, and sterilize the jars in a water bath for 15-20 minutes. Suitable not only white cabbage, but also cauliflower. But her sprouts are first put in boiling water for 2-3 minutes.

In tomato juice

Instead of marinade, tomato juice is used for harvesting, which is prepared from 2 kilograms of ripe fruits.In jars, you need to put, in addition to cucumbers and tomatoes, a chopped pod of bell pepper. A product with cloves of garlic, pieces of horseradish will turn out sharper. Before boiling, the juice should contain s alt (2 tablespoons), vinegar (2 tablespoons). It is necessary to sterilize the assortment for 20-30 minutes at the end of cooking.

With pepper

Pairs well with cucumbers and tomatoes with bell peppers. All vegetables are laid out in jars, garlic, pepper, bay leaf are added. The leaves of currant, cherry, celery, parsley will give a peculiar aroma to the workpiece. It is necessary to pour 1 time the vegetables with boiling water. And after half an hour marinade.

How to roll cucumbers with green tomatoes

For this recipe, green tomato fruits are taken. Cucumbers are desirable to collect small. At the bottom of the container put an umbrella of dill, grass seeds, coriander, 2 cloves of garlic. Vegetables are stacked so that there are fewer voids.They can be filled with slices of Bulgarian sweet pepper. Boiling water scalded vegetables 2 times. The third time you need a marinade. Prepare it by taking half a liter of water, a tablespoon of s alt and sugar. Vinegar is enough 1 teaspoon.

Storage rules and expiry date

Store canned vegetables in the basement, where it is cool and moderately damp. The air temperature should not be higher than +2 degrees, and humidity - 85%. It is better to eat assorted dishes during the winter. The rest of the next year will be tasteless. Cucumbers will be tough or spread in the marinade. Tomatoes burst from long storage. It is dangerous to eat pickled foods stored for a long time in cellars and cellars