Snack for the winter with rice: 12 step-by-step recipes at home, storage

Preservation is not only about fruits and vegetables. In fact, a lot can be preserved, which gives room for imagination in the field of preparing various snacks “in reserve”. As for the appetizer for the winter with rice, it’s more like a salad, but in the Soviet Union, where this dish was invented, they called it that way.

Features of cooking snacks with rice for the winter

Rice is a delicious and nutritious cereal that pairs perfectly with both meat and vegetables. Despite the fact that in the name of the recipe you can often find the definition of "vegetable" for snacks, you can roll up meat and fish with rice.You can not be afraid that perishable foods will go rotten - rice perfectly preserves, and if you also follow all the rules for seaming, you don’t have to worry about a snack in a secluded basement or pantry.

The prepared preservative can be eaten both cold and hot - whatever the household or guests wish. Such a salad with rice is no worse than other preservation - it may not be suitable for a gala dinner, but it’s quite good for a family evening.

Prepare rice properly

You can choose any white rice - depending on what you like best. Some prefer "short", but it will need a little more than "long". The long one prevails in the conservation market, as most people like the volume and taste. With brown rice and other exotics, it’s better not to risk it - the recipes are designed for white.

Before preservation, rice should be washed well (3-4 rinses under running water) and soaked in a large bowl for two hours.

Choosing safe containers

Previously, factory-made rice snacks were sold in tins, like other canned foods. This option is ideal from a safety point of view, but not everyone has the opportunity to literally make homemade canned food. There is a cheaper and more accessible alternative - glass.

Glass didn't just fall in love with our parents and generations before them. Few materials can compare with it in strength, flexible thermoregulation, space saving. Salads-snacks are rolled into glass even now, using the assortment that has significantly increased since the time of the Union. Now you can buy jars of any size and shape.

Cooking Methods

As with most popular recipes, the rice appetizer immediately acquired analogues, sometimes even more popular than the original.

In addition to other vegetables, snacks were made with legumes, with meat and fish, with mushrooms - all this only added nutrition.

To this day, step-by-step recipes have been preserved that will please someone for the first time, and someone will be reminded of the taste of childhood or unassuming students.

Classic recipe

Original instructions for making the rice snack suggest only four ingredients besides the rice (there's also vinegar to serve as a kind of sauce):

• carrots (1 kilogram);
• tomatoes (3 kilograms);
• sweet pepper (1 kilogram);
• onion (1 kilogram).

The vegetables listed above are the most likely to be found in Russian cuisine (only the cucumber will overtake them). It is not surprising that a recipe with such simple and cheap products quickly became popular. For the measure there will be a three-liter jar. Rice will need one glass (by the beginning of cooking it should already be soaked), and as additional ingredients:

• 100 grams of sugar;
• 100 milliliters of vinegar;
• two tablespoons of s alt;
• 400 grams of vegetable oil.

Once the rice is done, it's time for the vegetables. Everything is cut into small pieces that can easily fit and mix in a jar. Pepper is cut into strips, onion - medium-sized cubes. Carrots can be rubbed on a coarse grater. Tomatoes are needed for a separate preparation - you will have to grind them to a puree state (the easiest way to do this is with a meat grinder), and when ready, add all the s alt, butter and sugar there, mixing thoroughly.

Tomato paste is heated over medium heat, adding vegetables only after boiling. After that, you will have to wait for the boil for the second time, but already the entire vegetable mixture - now you can throw rice, which will be stewed with vegetables for half an hour. Five minutes before the end of the time, pour in the vinegar, stirring.

When hot, the appetizer is poured into a jar or into several small ones, having previously sterilized them.

Recipe without vinegar

Vinegar is an "an amateur" component, not everyone likes its taste. It plays an important role in the preservation process, but you can do without it by carefully processing the products.

Peppers, carrots and onions are cut in the same way, stewed together in a pan for about half an hour, after which chopped tomatoes and rice are added. When the rice is ready, you can take the appetizer off the stove and roll it up.

Spicy tomato rice snack without sterilization

From the new one you will need hot red pepper, about two pods. Since there will be no preservation itself, the ingredients must be steamed very carefully. It’s just that a tomato is no longer suitable - it must be boiled until it becomes a paste for 40 minutes, and then the same amount, adding the rest of the vegetables already fried.Rice at this time should be cooked separately - it will take half an hour. The final stage - rice and spices are added to the sauce and boiled for another 10 minutes.

Lecho with rice

Lecho is a spicy vegetable snack that rice will not spoil in any way. It almost does not differ from the standard recipe, except for the presence of pepper, garlic and spices to the taste of the hostess (basil, bay leaf, mustard or paprika).

The cooking recipe is similar to the classic one, only 7-10 minutes after the start of cooking, not only other vegetables, but also spices are added to the sauce. No need to boil the rice all the way - let it simmer in the vegetable mixture for just 20 minutes.

Pepper Appetizer

All you need to do for this modified recipe is not a kilogram of pepper, but two. Tomatoes should be the same amount - three kilograms, since this is the basis of the recipe. Everything is stewed according to the classic recipe, rice is added last and cooked for about 20 minutes.

Appetizer with rice and green tomatoes

Green tomatoes are edible anyway, but in jars they will ripen, soaked in vegetable juice and vinegar, and become much tastier. Due to the addition of spices, you get a spicy and original appetizer, least of all resembling pilaf. To create it, just change ordinary tomatoes for green ones.

Appetizer with tomato paste and rice

Can I replace tomatoes with pasta? It is possible, but it will take a lot if we are talking about several banks. It's significantly more expensive than just three kilos of tomatoes, but if you like the taste of a particular brand of tomato paste, simply simmer it to a boil and follow the classic recipe.

Eggplant appetizer

Eggplants are very popular and affordable vegetables, it would be strange not to meet recipe variations with them. With the addition of eggplant, other vegetables are not removed, but the proportions are slightly shifted.Now tomatoes need 2.5 kilograms, and eggplants - 1.5 kilograms. Otherwise, everything remains unchanged.

With beans

Beans are very nutritious, so only 200 grams are needed for the recipe, due to which the amount of carrots is reduced to 0.8 kilograms. Beans also need to be soaked, but less than rice - only an hour. Beans, like rice, in this recipe need to be cooked a little until almost ready, and only then thrown into the sauce, where fresh garlic and other vegetables have already been added.

Korean

If there is a special grater on which you can grate carrots according to the Korean "folk" method, then this option is worth a try. You will also need garlic, a lot of spices and pepper, vinegar - so that the taste of the snack gives off the famous salad. Tomatoes need 2.5 kilograms, carrots - 1.5 kilograms. Vinegar is added five minutes before the stove is turned off, everything else is unchanged - and a delicious snack is ready.

Appetizer with meat

Meat can and should be added, but before that it must be stewed to prevent rotting during storage. Vinegar cannot be ruled out. The meat is cooked separately and only in the last 20 minutes of cooking the sauce is thrown into it so that it is soaked. The weight of the meat can be arbitrary, but it is important to coordinate it with the weight of the vegetables so that there is enough space in the jar.

With mushrooms

Mushrooms are combined with vegetables; in such a mixed recipe, there is almost no difference between them. You can cut them into four slices (or six if the mushrooms are large) and safely throw them into the sauce along with the rest of the vegetables. Boiling with tomato will quickly saturate their porous bodies with vegetable juice.

How much and how to store?

You can keep a snack rolled up in a sterilized jar of vinegar for at least years in a row. The rest will have to be looked after and possibly make mistakes, gaining experience and throwing away the spoiled.

Store in the same way as all preservation - avoid direct sunlight, pressure and temperature changes.

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