Salad for winter with hot pepper

Spicy cucumbers perfectly complement dinners on cold winter evenings. Taking care of this in the middle of summer, when the market is filled with fresh vegetables, you can provide yourself with a varied menu for the whole winter.

Cucumbers for pickling are better to take not large and not overripe. Young ones with small seeds are an excellent choice. Cucumbers are well washed, wiped dry, cut off the tail and nose. We cut them into thin plates, you can use a knife, but it's much easier to do it with a vegetable peeler or a slicer.

We do the same with carrots. We clean the vegetables, wash them well so that not a drop of dirt gets into the workpiece, wipe dry. Cut the carrots into pieces of the same size as the cucumbers.We peel the garlic, wash it, dry it and cut it into thin plates so that they can be well distributed among the rest of the vegetables.

Combine cucumbers, carrots and garlic in a deep bowl. Red hot pepper is crushed as small as possible. Add oil, pepper, salt, sugar and apple cider vinegar to the cucumbers. Mix the vegetables with spices very carefully so that everything is well distributed and each piece can be soaked.

Cover the container with a lid or a towel, leave it for 3 hours so that the vegetables can start the juice. While cucumbers are being infused, we are preparing cans. It is better to take a container of half a liter, then one can will be enough for one meal. The jars are pre-washed and sterilized (you can do this in a microwave oven, an oven, a large saucepan or a special sterilizer).

When three hours have passed, the cucumbers will let in enough juice, we put the cucumbers in the prepared jars and pour the juice that was formed in the process. After that, the blanks should be re-pasteurized.

We put the jars in a large saucepan, pour water between them on the shoulders and put it on the fire. Bring to a boil and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. Immediately roll up the jars, leave them to cool and roll up the lids. We store it in a cool place.

Bon appetit!