Pickled beets in winter time can serve as good snack and to become the real decoration of a table. Besides, it can be used as addition to a fried or stewed meat. Pickled beets are also an excellent component of various salads and vinaigrettes.
How to make pickled beets
To pickle beet for the winter, it is necessary to take the following ingredients: - beet;
For marinade on 1 glass of water: - 3 tablespoons of vinegar;
- 1 tablespoons of granulated sugar; - ½ tsps of salt; - bell pepper; - 2-3 buds of a carnation; - 1 bay leaf.
Beet very well wash a baking plate with cold flowing water. Then put in an aluminum pan, fill in with water and you cook until beet doesn't become soft. Then remove from fire and cool directly in broth. After that peel beet, cut in small cubes and put in in advance prepared (washed up and sterilized) banks and fill in with marinade. For its preparation pour in water in a clean pan and add all ingredients: granulated sugar, salt, vinegar, pepper, carnation and bay leaf. Put marinade on silent fire, bring to the boil and then cool. Then sterilize banks with beet and roll up covers.
Secrets of tasty marinades
The quality of the made marinade very strongly depends on a type of the used vinegar. The marinades made on a table vinegar, infused on a savoury herbs, or grape are especially tasty. If vinegar rather strong (9%), then it it is necessary to part with water in a proportion 1:1. And after it to add salt, granulated sugar and various spices to taste (pepper, cinnamon, a carnation, nutmeg, a coriander, bay leaf, caraway seeds). The quantity of components of a vinegar pickle can vary depending on taste. Marinade surely has to prokipet very well then it needs to be cooled. That marinated products didn't spoil and didn't become covered by a mold, it is necessary to fill in marinade from above with a thin layer of vegetable oil. It is recommended to store banks with pickled vegetables in the dry and cool place. For preparation of beet for the winter it is possible to use other vinegar pickle. For it it will be required: - 1 ½ tsps of a black pepper; - 1 ½ tablespoons of a mustard seed; - 1 tsps of allspice; - 7 bay leaves; - 12 pieces of a carnation; - other spices to taste (thyme, a coriander); - little dry fennel (stalk, flowers, seeds);-800 g of granulated sugar; - ¾ glass of salt; - 2 tablespoons of 9% of vinegar; - 3 l of water. Pour in 3 liters of water in a deep pan and add all other components. Properly mix, put on fire and bring to the boil. Then remove a pan from a plate and let's marinade 2 hours infuse. After this time filter gas station via the gauze filter. Then heat to 75 wasps and pour out in the beet prepared and spread out in glass jars.