Every summer resident has a question: what to do with overgrown cucumbers? You won’t be able to roll them into jars; they are also not suitable for fresh salads. Therefore, many housewives prepare ketchup from cucumbers for the winter. It turns out softer than classic tomatoes, so it does not cause heartburn. Cooking does not take much time and effort, all recipes are very simple.
What is special about cucumber ketchup?
Since it is gentler than usual, it is suitable for people who suffer from heartburn. It is softer for the gastrointestinal tract.
What dishes are recommended to be served with?
The cucumber version goes perfectly with meat and fish dishes. It can also be used as a gravy or added to pizza.
Ingredients
In addition to cucumbers, the classic recipe includes spices, salt, tomato juice and vinegar.
How to make cucumber ketchup
To prepare winter preparations, you definitely need tomato juice. It is desirable that it be thick.
Therefore, the tomatoes are twisted in a meat grinder, then poured into a saucepan and boiled for half an hour. Afterwards, all the necessary ingredients are added to it, boiled for several minutes and then placed in jars while still hot.
To add piquancy to tomato juice, you can add store-bought tomato sauces.
Classic recipe “Cucumber Delight”
The classic recipe includes:
- 2.5 kg of cucumbers;
- 3 liters of thick tomato juice;
- head of garlic;
- 1 tbsp. l. salt;
- 0.5 tbsp. l. Sahara;
- 1 tbsp. l. vinegar essence 70%;
- 150 ml vegetable oil;
- spices.
How to cook:
- Vegetables are peeled, pitted and cut into small pieces.
- Pour them into tomato juice, add bay leaf, cloves, peppercorns, oil, salt and sugar.
- Cook for 20 minutes. Add chopped garlic. If desired, you can add any chopped herbs.
- Cook for another 5 minutes, add vinegar and turn off the heat.
Hot vegetables are poured into jars and rolled up.
With hot chili sauce
In this case, the classic recipe takes 0.5 liters less tomato juice and adds hot chili sauce. This cucumber preparation will be more pungent.
With Torchin ketchup
You can make cucumber salad with store-bought sauces.
Required:
- 1 kg of vegetables;
- 120 ml tomato sauce;
- 170 g onions;
- 110 g sugar;
- 1 tbsp. l. salt;
- 100 ml vinegar;
- 1 liter of water.
Cooking steps:
- Cut the onion into quarter rings, cucumbers into half circles.
- Sterilized jars are filled with vegetables and filled with brine. To prepare it, pour ketchup, vinegar, water into the pan, add salt and sugar. If desired, you can add a little hot sauce.
- Place on the fire, bring to a boil and pour in the cucumber mixture.
- Sterilize for 20 minutes.
Ketchup made from overgrown cucumbers
It should be stored only in the cellar, in hermetically sealed jars. It is recommended to eat within 2-3 months.
Required:
- cucumber – 10 pcs.;
- onions – 5 heads;
- mustard seeds – 50 g;
- ground black pepper – 20 g;
- salt – 160 g;
- apple cider vinegar – 800 ml.
Finely chop the onion and cucumbers and place in a sieve for 10 hours to drain the juice. Then add the rest of the ingredients, mix, and place in jars.
Storage rules and duration
Cucumber ketchup, closed for the winter with metal lids, can be stored in a cellar or pantry for no more than a year.
