Pickle for winter from fresh cucumbers with pearl barley

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients according to the list. First of all, we will prepare the pearl barley. The cereal is thoroughly washed and soaked for an hour with cold water. Then we drain the water, rinse the cereal again, fill it with a new batch of clean water and put it on fire. Cook the pearl barley until half-cooked, for 20 minutes on low heat. Drain the water, put the pearl barley in a deep saucepan.

2. Step 2:

   

   Meanwhile, prepare the vegetables, wash them. Carrots are cleaned and grated. We send it to a saucepan with pearl barley.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel the onion and cut it into small cubes and put it in a saucepan.

4. Step 4:

   

   We have reached cucumbers, they do not necessarily have to be of a beautiful marketable appearance, those that are not suitable for pickling are also suitable, the main thing is that they are fresh. Cut off the tips of the cucumbers on both sides and cut them into small cubes.

5. Step 5:

   

   We send them to the pan with other ingredients.

7. Step 6:

   

   Peel the bell pepper from the core with seeds, cut the pulp into small cubes. We do the same with tomatoes. Garlic cloves are cleaned and finely chopped with a knife.

8. Step 7:

   

   Pour water into a saucepan with cereals and vegetables. Add sugar and salt. Mix everything thoroughly and put it on the fire. When the mixture boils, reduce the heat to a minimum and simmer for about 15 minutes, then pour in vegetable oil, let the mixture boil and simmer for another 5 minutes. Now add the bay leaf and pour in the vinegar. Boil vegetables with cereals for 5 minutes from the moment of boiling.

9. Step 8:

   

   While the vegetable preparation for the pickle is being cooked, it is necessary to prepare the jars. Cans should be taken of such a volume that the contents of the entire jar were immediately used for cooking soup. Cans are washed with soda and sterilized in the oven, 0.5 liter cans are enough to sterilize for 10 minutes at a temperature of 150 degrees. The lids are boiled or sterilized together with the jars in the oven. Or sterilize the jars in another convenient way.

10. Step 9:

    

    We fill sterile jars with a blank to the shoulders, cover them with lids and sterilize them in a saucepan filled with water. We put a cloth on the bottom of the pan so that the walls of the cans do not burst when heated. Sterilize 0.5 cans for about 10 minutes from the moment the water boils in a saucepan over low heat. We roll up the jars with lids and put them away for storage in a cool place. Bon appetit!