Pickled carrots for winter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients. It is better to make such a preparation in the middle of summer, when carrots are young, juicy, tasty and rich in useful substances and vitamins. Carrots are better to take a small size so that you can put it in a jar entirely or by cutting it into large pieces. But large root crops are also suitable, they can be cut into circles or squares.

2. Step 2:

   

   Carrots are washed, cleaned, if the vegetables are young, then it is enough to wipe them with a stiff brush to remove the remnants of dirt from the skin, preserving the skin and vitamins present in it, cut off the tips and damaged areas. Garlic cloves are cleaned from the film and cut into several parts.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put the carrots in a deep bowl, pour boiling water and add a little salt. We leave the vegetables in a salty solution for 5-7 minutes so that the top layer of the root crop softens a little, and the existing bacteria are destroyed on the surface of the carrot, everything harmful has come out. We will prepare the jars for rolling in advance. I wash the cans with soda solution and sterilize them in one of the convenient ways: in a water bath, in a microwave oven or in an oven. Lids are washed, boiled, dried

5. Step 4:

   

   Pour clean water into a saucepan, add sugar, salt, bay leaf, pepper, cloves (if desired and to taste, you can use any other spices and herbs). We put a pot of water on the fire, bring it to a boil, stirring with a spoon so that the sugar and salt completely dissolve, boil for 2-3 minutes, pour in vinegar, let it boil again and turn off the fire.

6. Step 5:

   

   Carrots and garlic cloves are tightly packed in sterile jars. Pour the prepared marinade. Cover the jars with a lid and sterilize them in a water bath for about 15 minutes (0.5 liter cans). Immediately roll up the jars with lids. Let them cool down upside down under a warm blanket at room temperature and put them away for storage in a cool place. The carrot preparation is ready. Bon appetit!