Olives are a rather tasty product, but they are expensive, so not everyone can afford to buy this product. A good solution is to prepare cherry plums, like olives, for the winter; The recipe is quite simple, but takes time. The final result of the rolled cherry plum: the fruit will taste as similar as possible to olives. So, let's reveal the secret of preparing the dish.
Secrets of pickling cherry plums like olives
This fruit is not capricious and lends itself easily to culinary experiments.But there are subtleties in preparing the workpiece. If you don’t know them, you can ruin both the appearance of the delicacy and the taste.
To prepare cherry plums, like olives, for the winter, you need to pay attention to the following nuances:
- Often the fruit is pickled whole, well washed;
- preservation takes place using ripe, hard, not overripe fruits. It can be carried out using fruits of any shade, but it is worth considering that a very ripe dark cherry plum variety will become too soft. It is better to choose unripe fruits;
- They put different types of fruit in one jar, which is very beautiful. But there is an opinion that the flavors of the yellow and dark varieties will overpower each other, so it is better to marinate them separately.
Required Products
To prepare cherry plums, like olives, for the winter, the recipe includes the following products.
- Ripe cherry plum fruits – 1 kg.
- Granulated sugar – 2 tbsp. l. with a slide.
- Salt – 4 tbsp. l.
- Vinegar – 250 ml.
- Bay leaf.
- Cloves – 2 buds.
- Black pepper – 5 pcs.
- Tarragon – 1 tbsp. l. leaves, half a spoon.
Preparing Ingredients
Before pickling, the fruit must be re-sorted. Fruits with an ideal shape, without any damage, are suitable for seaming, otherwise the pickled fruit will come out limp and will not be suitable for use in all dishes.
Before rolling, the cherry plums are removed from the tails. The pits that remain from the tails must be thoroughly washed. If dirt remains in the recess, this may cause damage to the workpiece.
How to properly prepare the container?
First of all, the containers must be free of defects. For preparation, the selected containers are washed in hot water using soda or other special products. Heavily contaminated jars are pre-soaked in boiling water and a soda solution. Then the container is rinsed in hot water.
Before filling, the containers are sterilized using a boiling kettle: the jar is placed on the spout and left for 20 minutes. If you need a lot of preparations, then sterilization can be carried out in the oven, placing the jars with the neck up. Sterilization time – 30 minutes.
Metal lids are boiled for 15 minutes before rolling up.
How to pickle cherry plums like olives?
The process of harvesting olives for the winter.
- The fruit is washed well, poured with boiling water and left until it cools completely.
- Drain the water and repeat the process again.
- The fruits are removed from the cooled water and sent to ready-made jars.
- All the required components are poured into the water used to pour the fruit, but without vinegar.
- The mixture is sent to the stove and slowly brought to a boil.
- Vinegar is added to the liquid, and the mixture is immediately removed from the heat.
- The hot brine must be poured into containers with the fruit.
- Each container must be covered with a lid to allow the product to infuse throughout the day.
- The jars are then sterilized for 25 minutes.
- The blanks are rolled up, turned over and wrapped.
The procedure for pickling fruit is quite lengthy. It will be possible to use the product only after 2 months. Previously, it makes no sense to open the jar, since the pulp will not acquire the specific taste of olives.
Storage of the finished product
For storage, preserved fruit is sent to a dark, cool place.
