Radish: harvesting for the winter, pickling recipes and storage rules

Many housewives are preparing winter preparations. At the same time, some of them harvest radishes for the winter. You need to know how to store radish for the winter, as this plant is stored much worse than all other vegetables. By the beginning of spring, it becomes rough and dry. Therefore, before preparing blanks for the winter, you need to familiarize yourself with how to store black radish without freezing.

Composition and useful properties

Before you save the radish, it is recommended to familiarize yourself with its composition and useful properties. It contains a large amount of mineral s alts such as potassium, phosphorus, copper, iron, zinc and sulfur.It also contains natural antibiotics that have antiviral and disinfecting properties.

Other useful properties of this plant include the following:

1. Black radish blanks can improve immunity and resistance to various infectious diseases.
2. Black radish contains a lot of antioxidants that can protect the body from cancer.
3. Radish blanks help to cope with bronchitis and tracheitis.
4. Pickled radish improves digestion, which is beneficial for the intestines.
5. This frozen vegetable speeds up fat metabolism, so you can lose weight.

Korean salad

Some housewives prefer not to freeze this vegetable, but to close the radish salad in jars for the winter. This recipe for winter harvesting is ideal for lovers of spicy dishes. To pickle Korean-style radish for the winter, you will need the following ingredients:

• kg root crop;
• three heads of garlic;
• 100g greens;
• 150 g sweet pepper.

Preservation of this dish begins with the preparation of all the main ingredients. First you need to cook all the root vegetables. To do this, black radish is washed with cold water and peeled. After that, it should be finely chopped with a knife. Some housewives prefer not to cut the vegetable, but to grate it on a coarse grater. When the black radish is completely chopped, you can proceed to the pepper. First, it should be washed and cut into several large pieces. Then it is completely cleaned of seeds and cut into small strips 2-3 cm wide.After that, all the ingredients are placed in a small container, sprinkled with chopped herbs and mixed.

This radish salad closes for the winter without sterilizing the containers, so you can immediately start filling the containers. First, a few cloves of garlic are placed in jars. Then green parsley and other herbs are added to them. Lastly, the root crop with pepper is poured into the jars. All this is covered with a small amount of s alt with sugar and filled with water. After that, we preserve the jars and transfer the Korean-style pickled radish to the basement for further storage.

With carrots

Some people wonder if radishes can be covered with other vegetables. There are various radish recipes for the winter, which may differ in the ingredients used. In this case, during the preparation of the workpiece, Daikon white radish and carrots are used. To create conservation, you will have to prepare the following products in advance:

• 400g root vegetable;
• four carrots;
• garlic head;
• 100 g s alt;
• 70g sugar;
• 50g greens;
• 50 ml vinegar.

Preparation begins with the preliminary preparation of all the ingredients that are needed to create the preparation. To make this salad, you need to collect only dense and large root crops. After harvesting, they should be immediately washed and peeled. Then the vegetable is washed again, grated and placed in a small bowl. Having finished with the root crop, you can proceed to the carrot and pepper. They are washed in water, cut into small strips and placed in a container.

The preparation of radishes for the winter will be rolled up in glass jars. For this, it is recommended to use small half-liter containers. First, they are thoroughly washed and dried. Only after that it will be possible to lay all the ingredients in them.

Having prepared the container, you should start preparing the marinade. To do this, a small saucepan is filled with water and put on fire. When the liquid begins to boil, s alt and herbs should be added to the marinade. All this is thoroughly mixed and boiled for about 20 minutes.

In parallel with the preparation of the marinade, all the ingredients are put into the container. First, peeled garlic with fresh herbs is added to the jars. After that, the grated root crop with pepper and carrots is poured out. All this is mixed and sprinkled with s alt and sugar. Then the containers are filled with marinade and closed with lids. Pickled vegetables should cool for 10 hours, after which they can be transferred to the cellar.

With cabbage

Sometimes radish for the winter is prepared with the addition of cabbage. With it, you can make a pretty tasty twist. To prepare it, you will have to purchase the following products:

• 200g cabbage;
• 200g root vegetable;
• greens;
• garlic head;
• two carrots;
• 40ml vinegar;
• onion.

First, wash all vegetables thoroughly in a large bowl of water. After that, you can start preparing them. You can start with carrots, which must be peeled and chopped. At the same time, it needs to be cut into several thin plates. Having finished with carrots, you can do cabbage. It is finely chopped and transferred to a separate container. Then you should peel the onion and garlic, cut them into small rings and mix with cabbage.

After preparing the vegetables, fill a pot with water and boil it. While heating the water, add 20-30 g of s alt to it. While the water is boiling, all the harvested vegetables are distributed in jars. All jars must be pre-sterilized.

Then all the containers are filled with boiling water and covered with a lid. After that, you need to do pasteurization. To carry out this procedure, all jars should be placed in a pot of boiling water. After 20-30 minutes, the jars are removed from the liquid, rolled up with lids and cool.

Conclusion

Preparing blanks made from radish can be done not only by experienced housewives, but also by beginners who have never done conservation. To do this, you need to familiarize yourself with the recipes for preparing blanks and strictly follow what is written in them. In addition, you should familiarize yourself with how to store radishes in the cellar in winter so that the preservation does not deteriorate quickly.

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