Recipes for blanks from squash for the winter
Patisson is a vegetable plant, a kind of pumpkin, a relative of zucchini. It is not as common in garden beds as other members of this family. However, summer residents who have tried this unusual vegetable most often reserve a place in their garden for other seasons. This is an early ripening culture, the fruits can be consumed within a week from the moment of appearance. In addition, it blooms and bears fruit until frost.
In addition to external resemblance to an alien flying saucer, the patisson is interesting because it contains a storehouse of vitamins. The taste of these vegetables is similar to zucchini, but with denser skin and tasty pulp. They are yellow, green or white.
How to choose vegetables?
When canning squash for the winter, it is important to choose the right fruits. It is recommended to take young, with thin skin, without dents and spots. It is also better to pick up fruits of small size, they will cook faster and go perfectly into the neck of the jar. The fact that the vegetable is ripe is indicated by its light green color. In addition, in young patissons, when pressed, the peel is slightly pressed through. White hard patissons are not suitable for consumption.
Preparing squash for the winter is not difficult at all, given all the recommendations. It can be a twist or you can just freeze them. In winter, you can cook various dishes with them, for example, Korean-style squash with sweet peppers.
Recipes
Patisson is popular in cooking. It can be fried, boiled, salted, stuffed, marinated, cut into salads or boiled jam and marmalade.Cookbooks and magazines for hostesses offer many recipes with squash for the most demanding taste. Patissons cooked by skillful hands are as tasty as mushrooms.
Squash can be preserved both independently, and make a "garden" - add other vegetables along with them. Before preservation, due to the dense skin, the squash must first be boiled in boiling water for 5-10 minutes.
Vegetable mix
The main question is what vegetables can be combined. There are no clear restrictions; almost any vegetable crops can be marinated together. Usually garden greens are added here - parsley and dill, as well as bay leaves, cloves, any pepper. For brine, you need to prepare 1.75 liters of water, where 1 tbsp. a spoonful of salt, 2 tbsp. spoons of granulated sugar, 2 tbsp. spoons of 9% vinegar essence.
Vegetables are recommended to pickle small size. To do this, they need to be prepared: disassemble the cauliflower into pieces, cut the white cabbage into pieces, carrots and zucchini - in circles, the squash is divided in half or into four parts. In the same way, pepper is cut, which is previously cleared of seeds. First, greens and spices are placed in jars, vegetables are placed on top. Assorted marinade is poured and sterilized for 25-30 minutes. After that, they twist and put the jars with the lid down until the workpiece cools down.
"Garden" of squash and zucchini with tomatoes
This recipe is even for novice housewives. Prepare a kilogram of tomatoes, a kilogram of squash and zucchini. To prepare the marinade, you need a liter of water, where 200 ml of fruit vinegar, 200 grams of honey and the same amount of granulated sugar are dissolved. Small squash, zucchini and tomatoes are tightly packed into a jar.First, the skin of the tomatoes must be carefully pierced. Assorted marinade is poured and sent for pasteurization. Roll up, put away for storage.
in salt form
For pickles, it is advised to take vegetables of the same size so that the salt is evenly distributed. For salting 2 kg of squash, you need to add 1 clove of garlic, dill, cherry leaves, black pepper, a couple of horseradish leaves. Vegetables need to be boiled first. First, spices are lowered into the dishes for harvesting, squash is tightly packed on top. For brine, 60 grams of salt is added to 1.5 liters of water. Squash is poured with marinade and left in a dark room for three days. Then the brine is drained, boiled and again returned to the vegetables. Roll up and clean up.
Pickled with apple and carrot
To surprise guests or diversify the festive table, you can pickle squash with carrots and apples. Apples go well with vegetables, and besides, they have a lot of vitamins. This recipe is original, but very easy to perform.
3 liters of water, 5 patissons, 5 carrots, 4 onions, 4 apples must be prepared in advance. In addition to vegetables, you will also need 4 bay leaves, 8 peppercorns, dill, parsley, 4 pcs. cloves, 6 garlic cloves. The marinade will take 3 tbsp. spoons of sugar, 2 tbsp. spoons of salt, 1 tbsp. spoon of 70% vinegar. Vegetables must be washed and cut. Apples can be divided into parts, carrots can be cut into cubes or circles, onions can be cut into slices.
First, prepare the marinade. Seasonings are sent to boiling water, where they are 3-4 minutes. The resulting brine is placed in a separate bowl, squash is added, boiled. After 3 minutes, carrots and garlic are laid, after another 3 minutes - apples, which need to be boiled for no more than 2 minutes.
While the vegetables are cooking, sterilize the jars well.The easiest way is vinegar treatment. Cooked vegetables and apples are laid out, poured with marinade. Wrap tightly and leave to cool.
Caviar "Lick your fingers"
It turns out much more tender than from zucchini and is not inferior in taste at all. This recipe will require 3 kg of squash, 2 kg of tomatoes, 1 kg of onions, 5 carrots, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of salt and apple cider vinegar, a glass of sugar and sunflower oil. Squash is cut into small pieces, carrots are rubbed on a grater, onions are cut into cubes, tomatoes are sliced. Patissons are fried in vegetable oil for 5 minutes, then onions and carrots are added to them. Vegetables are fried for 10 minutes with constant stirring, then tomatoes are placed here, and the vegetables are stewed for another 10 minutes. Then grind the mass with a blender.
The resulting puree is transferred to a separate container, vinegar, salt, sugar are added. All ingredients are simmered over low heat for another half an hour. Ready caviar is laid out in a sterilized dish, covered with a lid and simmered for about 20 minutes in a water bath. After that, the lids are tightly twisted.
Marinated crispy patissons
Before cooking, they must be washed, dried and the stalks removed. For blanks, young patissons of the order of 4-5 cm in length are chosen so that you can freely lay jars in the neck. First, they are boiled for 5 minutes in boiling water with the addition of salt. Then seasonings are put into sterilized jars: dill, celery, tarragon, currant leaves, followed by squash.
All this is poured with hot brine. For him, you need to prepare 1 liter of water, 2.5 tbsp. spoons of salt, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sugar, 2-3 tablespoons of 3% vinegar, pepper, cloves to taste. After boiling, vinegar is poured into the marinade.The jars are covered with lids, put in a container filled with hot water, wait until it boils, take it out and roll it up.
In a spicy marinade
Fans of spicy will love marinated squash with a spicy note of red pepper. Dill, currant leaves and horseradish leaves are placed in a sterilized half-liter jar. Then add a clove of garlic, a teaspoon of salt, red pepper to taste, 50 ml of apple cider vinegar. Squash is neatly placed on top. Everything is poured with boiling water and sterilized under a closed lid. Then rolled up and sent to storage.
with cucumbers
Combining squash and cucumbers in one jar is a great idea. This neighborhood has a sweetish taste. Vegetables are taken in equal parts, for example, per kilogram. Vegetables must be washed and prepared for preservation. For a liter of water you need 2 tbsp. spoons of granulated sugar and 1.5 tbsp. spoons of salt. Boil until completely dissolved, add 0.5 teaspoon of vinegar.
Spices are laid at the bottom of the sterilized dishes: 6 garlic cloves, 3 bay leaves, 6 pieces of allspice, cherry and currant leaves, dill, parsley. Cucumbers and squash are placed on top, poured with cooked marinade. Then it is necessary to sterilize for 10 minutes and twist.
With zucchini
For a 1.5-liter jar, you need 0.5 zucchini and the same number of squash. In addition, carrots, onions, sweet peppers are added. A couple of dill umbrellas, 3 garlic cloves, a couple of cherry leaves are laid out in a jar. Carrots and zucchini are cut into rings, pepper - into 4 parts. Patissons are also added here. Small ones are whole, large ones are cut into pieces.
For the marinade: per liter of water you need 70 grams of salt, 3 tbsp. spoons of granulated sugar, 70 grams of acetic acid, a few peppercorns, bay leaf.Vegetables are poured with marinade, covered with lids and sent for sterilization for 30 minutes. After that, the banks must be rolled up and left upside down for a day.
With mint
There is no sugar in this simple recipe, it is replaced by peppermint, which will give the squash a unique taste. To prepare the marinade, 10 grams of salt, 3 grams of 70% vinegar essence are added to 1 liter of cold water. All contents are brought to a boil. Small fruits are washed, blanched for 5-7 minutes and sent to cool.
The bottom of the jar is lined with leaves of horseradish, celery, dill, fresh mint, bay leaf, peppercorns are added. Then vegetables are added here. They are covered with greens, poured with marinade, sterilized for 10-20 minutes.
A quick way to marinate
Vegetables are washed well, spices are laid out in a jar - salt, pepper, citric acid, bay leaf, cloves. Then patissons are sent there, between which it is necessary to place currant and cherry leaves, as well as parsley and dill. The fruits are poured with boiling water, after which the container is placed in a container with water and sterilized for 30-40 minutes. The final touch is vinegar, one spoon is added at the very end. After that, the workpiece is closed with a lid, cooled and sent for storage.
With lemon and herbs
For 1 kilogram of squash, half a glass of table vinegar, half a glass of boiled water, one third of the same capacity of chopped shallots are taken. You also need to add one 1 tbsp. a spoonful of spices - salt, granulated sugar, several pots of black pepper. Then half of 1 teaspoon of red pepper is poured, one at a time 1 tsp.a spoonful of coriander and mustard, 3 cloves of garlic, a bay leaf, a few sprigs of tarragon, a couple of green onion feathers, 4 cloves of lemon are laid.
Vinegar is poured into the water, the indicated spices are added. The contents must be brought to the appearance of bubbles, dissolving salt and sugar. Vegetables prepared for pickling are divided into two parts. One of them is put into the jar first, then tarragon, onion and lemon are added. Squash is again laid out on top, everything is poured with hot marinade. Regardless of where canned patissons are stored, they will be ready in a month. You can taste it without waiting for winter.
Helpful Hints
For those who first encounter patisson, advice from experienced housewives will be needed:
- squash is consumed unripe, its taste is more delicate;
- it is better to give preference to small fruits;
- so that the squash crunches after canning, blanching is carried out;
- to preserve the color after boiling, the vegetable is dipped in cold water;
- it is not necessary to remove the skin for preservation;
- can be closed in jars with a metal or nylon lid;
- at room temperature, this vegetable is stored for up to two days, in the refrigerator it can lie for up to 5 days;
- most squash recipes are suitable for squash;
- after twisting, blanks cannot be wrapped; in heat, the fruits become flabby and lose their taste.
Squash is shown to people with hypertension, anemia, kidney disease, and is useful for obesity. Thanks to the proteins in its composition, patisson has a great effect on the digestive tract, liver, eyesight, improves immunity, and lowers cholesterol. Squash seeds do not allow to exceed the number of salts in the body and even relieve gout.
Squash in any form is contraindicated in case of violations of the digestive tract, use with caution at reduced pressure. The minimum use of patisons is recommended for people with diseases of the kidneys and gallbladder. because some varieties contain oxalates, which can promote stone formation. A canned vegetable is contraindicated for people with pancreatic problems, kidney problems, diabetes mellitus and is not recommended for young children.
Fans of these vegetables buy seeds for the upcoming season at the end of winter in order to have time to choose suitable varieties of different shapes, colors and ripening dates.
Note: early varieties will please the harvest in 40-50 days from the moment of germination, and later - after 60-70 days, they are just beginning to set fruits.
For information on how to preserve squash, see the following video.