Zucchini is quite often used in cooking to make a delicious salad or vegetable dish. Moreover, they are used not only for preparing traditional dishes, but also for creating something unusual.
Many housewives prepare zucchini for milk mushrooms for the winter. This roll has a very unusual and pronounced taste, which is reminiscent of canned mushrooms. However, in order for zucchini in jars to really be tasty, you need to familiarize yourself in advance with how to prepare zucchini like milk mushrooms for the winter and what recipes to use for this.
Recommendations for choosing main ingredients
Preparing zucchini for the winter begins with choosing the ingredients that will be needed for this. Only by choosing the right ingredients can you prepare pickled zucchini like milk mushrooms so delicious that you will lick your fingers. Many recipes consist of the following elements:
- Zucchini. To preserve zucchini like milk mushrooms without sterilization, ordinary fruits and zucchini are used. In this case, you can preserve ripened and young zucchini.
- The most popular recipes include garlic. It makes preserved milk mushrooms more tasty, as evidenced by reviews from some housewives.
- Black pepper. Almost every recipe for zucchini as milk mushrooms for the winter cannot do without this ingredient. You need to add black pepper very carefully so as not to accidentally overdo it. For 2 kg of zucchini, 15-30 g of pepper will be enough.
- Greenery. Some housewives add parsley to the jar when preparing preserves. This is done to make the taste more intense.
- Vinegar. You need to prepare zucchini with vinegar. In this case, you cannot use any vinegar. In this case, the best choice would be to purchase a six percent solution.
- Vegetable oil. It is recommended to buy refined oil, as it does not have a pronounced taste that could spoil the taste of canned zucchini.
- Dill. Almost every recipe includes fresh dill, which is needed to make preparing zucchini for the winter more aromatic and tasty.
First recipe
After familiarizing yourself with the main ingredients, you can roll up zucchini for the winter. This step-by-step recipe will help you do everything right. First you need to figure out the amount of ingredients:
- a kilogram of fresh zucchini;
- a glass of vegetable oil;
- half a glass of vinegar;
- a bunch of dill;
- 15-20 g ground pepper;
- 25 g sugar and salt;
- five cloves of garlic.
Particular attention should be paid to the choice of vinegar, since this recipe will require a 9% solution.
Having prepared all the necessary ingredients, you can start cooking. First you need to start cutting the zucchini. It is advisable to cut them into large pieces. It is recommended to get rid of the pulp in the middle. If this is not done, then there will be no effect of milk mushrooms in the future.
Then you should start chopping the garlic. First, it is thoroughly cleaned and cut into small pieces with a knife. You can also use a grater instead of a knife.
All prepared components are used to create marinades. To do this, the ingredients are poured with boiled water, mixed and infused for three hours. At this time, you can start preparing the cans for seaming. Some housewives prepare zucchini like milk mushrooms for the winter without sterilization, but many prefer to sterilize. In order not to waste a lot of time, I sterilize zucchini jars in the oven. First, they need to be washed thoroughly with warm water and placed in an oven preheated to 150 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
Having finished with sterilization, I tighten the jars. To begin with, all the prepared zucchini with herbs must be evenly distributed among each jar and placed in a container with hot water. In this case, the liquid should only reach the hangers of the cans. They should stand in hot water for 10 minutes. Then tighten them with seaming caps.
It is not recommended to place jars in boiling water, as this may cause them to crack.
Second recipe
In this case, the preparation of zucchini preparations for milk mushrooms will be slightly different.This recipe features carrots and some other ingredients:
- two carrots;
- two kilograms of zucchini;
- head of garlic;
- 15 g black pepper;
- a tablespoon of salt;
- a bunch of parsley;
- half a glass of vegetable oil;
- 20 g sugar.
First you should start cutting the zucchini. They must be cut in the same way as mushrooms - into quarters and halves. For this it is better to use a special shredder. Then you need to start preparing the garlic. It must be peeled, cut crosswise into slices and added to the zucchini. After this, all the greens are chopped. In this case, the tops are cut quite coarsely, and the cuttings are cut smaller.
The carrots are cut into even slices and soaked in vegetable oil. It is added to the rest of the vegetables and mixed thoroughly with them.
Now you can make sure that the zucchini is salted. To do this, salt the vegetables, mix and leave for several minutes. To avoid it being too salty, add sugar, vinegar and oil. Jars and sealing lids are sterilized according to the same principle as described in the previous recipe. Immediately after sterilization, seal the jars with lids.
After the twist has cooled, it must be moved to a dark room with a low temperature. A cellar or basement is ideal for this.
Conclusion
Preserving zucchini for the winter like milk mushrooms is quite simple. To do this, you need to study the most popular recipes that will help you prepare for the winter.
