Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make relish sauce with cucumbers for the winter? Prepare the products according to the list. Wash the vegetables well and dry them. Peel the pepper from the seeds and stalks. Cut the tips off the cucumbers. If they have a tough skin, you can cut it off too.
Step 2:
Cut a fresh cucumber into small cubes. Rinse the sliced cucumber in running water and drain the water. Place the cucumber slices in a bowl and add salt so that they let the juice.
Step 3:
Cut the red pepper into the same small cube.
Step 4:
Cut the peeled onion into small cubes.
Step 5:
Chop the pickled cucumbers also finely, you can remove the seeds (they were marinated with dried dill seeds, so they are slightly brown).
Step 6:
Slice the celery stalk in the same way.
Step 7:
Put all the chopped products in a saucepan. Put it on the stove.
Step 8:
Add vinegar, mustard seeds and cumin, bring to a boil and simmer for half an hour. If a lot of liquid has formed, put out the sauce again. Its consistency should not become mushy, the main thing is that each piece should be viewed separately - this is the difference between relish and other sauces.
Step 9:
If relish is going to be stored, then put it in sterile jars still boiling. Roll up with sterile lids and send "under the fur coat" until completely cooled. If you just cook it for dinner or lunch, store it in the refrigerator for up to 3-4 days.
Relish sauce, the origins of which are in India. It was from there that he got to Europe, and only then to America, where the relish of pickled cucumbers became the main sauce for hot dogs. This sauce can be prepared from any set of vegetables, the main thing is that the products must maintain their separateness. Famous relishes include chutney, salsa.
Interesting is the fact that in the Soviet pre-war time relish was produced by the Mikoyan plant, this sauce was called "Relish sweet and sour / vegetable seasoning for meat and fish dishes".
So that the mucous membrane of the eyes is not irritated when slicing onions, rinse the onion and knife with cold water. The cutting board will not absorb the unpleasant onion smell if you rub it with a piece of lemon before slicing.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Fresh cucumbers - 15 kcal/100g
- Sweet pepper - 27 kcal/100g
- Cumin - 333 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Pickled cucumbers - 16 kcal/100g
- White wine vinegar - 14 kcal/100g
- Granular mustard - 135 kcal/100g
- Celery stalk - 12 kcal/100g