Cucumber salad without sterilization

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 5 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make cucumbers for the winter without cooking the marinade and sterilizing? Soak cucumbers with prickly tubercles in regular cold tap water for a couple of hours. This way they will be saturated with moisture and become as crispy as possible. This is especially true for a recipe without sterilization, since usually the crispness of cucumbers is significantly lost with this method of canning.

2. STEP 2

   

   After soaking, wash the cucumbers thoroughly under running water. It is important to completely get rid of sand and soil. Gently rub them with your hands under running water on all sides. Then cut the vegetables into fairly large half rings. You can chop cucumbers more thinly. This will simply change the appearance of the salad.

3. STEP 3

   

   Peel the onions and cut into thin half rings. It is better to use white or yellow onions, since these varieties do not change their color much during heat treatment. Red onions will become ugly. Salt the vegetables and add sugar, refined sunflower oil (odorless) and nine percent vinegar. Be extremely careful when working with vinegar! If you have vinegar essence, then you must dilute it with water according to the instructions on the bottle!

4. STEP 4

   

   Add mustard grains. It is also called French. It is not spicy, but on the contrary, sweet and sour and very tasty. Mix the vegetables, cover the bowl with cling film and leave at room temperature for four hours. During this time, you will need to stir the cucumbers a couple of times, then they will give juice and marinate well.

5. STEP 5

   

   Wash the jars thoroughly with a brush and baking soda and sterilize them in any way. I sterilize liter jars like this: I pour fifty milliliters of cold tap water into each jar and put the jars in the microwave for three minutes at a power of eight hundred watts. Then I use oven mitts to pull them out and pour out the hot water. Be careful, don't get burned! Just scald screw caps with boiling water. Then pack the salad tightly into the jars and screw on the lids.

Comments on the recipe

larisa.beg

01.12.2023

5

This cucumber salad is an excellent dish for the winter; it can be served with mashed potatoes. I’ll share my favorite assorted winter salad of cucumbers and tomatoes.

Svetlana

01.12.2023

4.6

The recipe is very simple, easy to prepare - exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much for the recipe! It turned out very tasty - the salad was fresh, aromatic, and the grain mustard (in addition to its taste) also looked beautiful. I’ll now look forward to the tasting in winter)