Large, overripe zucchini is very difficult to peel, and this is the main difficulty in preparing them. Also, such zucchini lose the softness and tenderness of young zucchini, and therefore are not suitable for fresh salad.
Therefore, from large ripe zucchini you can prepare dishes that require the addition of liquid. For example, vegetable stew goes great with them.
When milking this dish you need to take one large zucchini, one large onion, one bell pepper, two or three tomatoes. We also take herbs to taste, salt and any spices to taste and desire. You can also use other vegetables, such as carrots, turnips, fresh cabbage, celery.
First, prepare all the vegetables, wash them and peel them. Large zucchini should be cut in half and into several more pieces, then they can be peeled. This can be done either with a knife or a vegetable peeler. We also clean out the pulp and seeds from the inside of the zucchini. The remaining pieces of zucchini are cut into cubes measuring approximately one and a half by one and a half centimeters.
We also cut the onion into cubes, peel the bell pepper from seeds and membranes, and cut into cubes.
The tomatoes can be blanched and skinned first, but you can leave them like that. We also cut them into cubes, but smaller.
Now pour vegetable oil into a large frying pan and heat it. Quickly fry the onions, then add the bell pepper, and then add the chopped tomatoes. Salt and pepper everything to taste. Stir and place chopped zucchini on top. Cover the dish with a lid and simmer for ten minutes over low heat. After this, mix everything and simmer until the zucchini is completely cooked. Five minutes before readiness, add chopped herbs.
This stew is very suitable for meatballs or cutlets, baked meat or regular sausages. You can also serve this vegetable stew with mashed potatoes.
You can also make vegetable cutlets or pancakes from large overripe zucchini. To do this, be sure to wash and peel the zucchini, cut it and clean out the entire middle. After this, cut the zucchini into large cubes and pass them through a meat grinder. Along with the zucchini, we also skip a head of onion and a couple of cloves of garlic.
Mix all this, add salt and season with spices to taste. Add one or two eggs, a little flour or starch. The result should be a mass similar to thick sour cream.
Now heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan with the addition of butter, or cooking fat, and using a tablespoon, place small cutlets or pancakes there. They should not be thick, but it is best to make them literally one centimeter thick.
Fry the zucchini pancakes on both sides until golden brown and crusty. This can be done both with the pan lid closed and without it. Fry over medium heat or reduce to low, but then the pancakes will take a little longer to cook.
These zucchini pancakes should be served with garlic or green sauce. They are very fragrant and appetizing.
And of course, you can make caviar for the winter from large overripe zucchini. You can do it this way.
First, wash and clean the zucchini, cut them and clean out the pulp and seeds from the inside. Then cut into large cubes. We pass everything through a meat grinder.
Wash and peel the onions, carrots, and a few cloves of garlic. We also pass all this through a meat grinder.
Transfer the resulting mass into a large saucepan, add salt, peppercorns and cloves. Place the pan on the fire and bring to a boil. If there is little liquid in the pan, add some water there.
Cook the caviar over low heat for about twenty minutes. After this, we taste the caviar. If you like caviar saltier, then you need to add salt to taste, if you like caviar to taste sweet, then add a little sugar. You can also add spices to suit your taste.
After this, add vegetable oil to the caviar and cook for another twenty minutes. Next, turn off the heat, let the caviar cool slightly and put it in sterilized jars, roll them with sterilized lids.
If you plan to store caviar in the refrigerator, you can close the jars with clean cellophane lids. Then we let the zucchini caviar cool completely and put it away for winter storage.
As for the proportions of such caviar, I usually cook it the same way as my mother, by eye. That is, as many zucchini, onions, and carrots are available, I take as much as I need. The caviar turns out delicious, the main thing is to check for salt and sugar during its preparation. Sometimes, when possible, we also add tomatoes to this caviar. They give a slight sourness, which is sometimes very tasty.
These are the dishes you can prepare from large overripe zucchini.
Ingredients:
- cucumbers
- Tomatoes
- Bell pepper
- Carrot
- Greenery
- Vegetable oil
- Pepper
On a note!
the number of ingredients is not indicated, since for the stew you can use any vegetable that is currently on hand. Jars for packaging are suitable for 0.5 - 0.8 liters.
Preparation:
Peel large cucumbers, cut into 4 parts and cut out the middle with seeds. Next, cut the prepared slices into cubes, place in hot oil in a frying pan and fry until translucent. Process the remaining vegetables, cut into cubes or slices, and add to the cucumbers.
Add spices to the vegetable mixture to taste and simmer until all vegetables are cooked. Place the mixture in a hot container, immediately roll up the lids and cover the “stew” with a fur coat.
And you can eat it not only as a cold appetizer, but when serving it as a side dish you can warm it up.
Salad of overgrown cucumbers for the winter in jars
Ingredients:
- Cucumbers – 3 kg
- Fresh dill - a large bunch
- Onion - half a kilo
- Vegetable oil – 250 ml
- Salt - a quarter cup
- Vinegar 6% – 250 ml
- Sugar - half a glass
Preparation:
Cucumbers, peeled, cut into slices. Finely chop the dill. Cut the onion into rings.
Arrange the prepared vegetables in jars in layers: cucumbers, dill, onions, cucumbers and so on.
Make a cold pour from oil, salt, vinegar and sugar, that is, there is no need to boil the mixture. Pour the mixture over the salad and leave for 3 hours.
Sterilization of jars: 1 liter – 10 minutes; 0.8 l – 8 minutes; 0.5 l – 5 minutes.
“Pickles” from overgrown cucumbers
Ingredients:
- Large cucumbers – 1 kg
- Sugar – 5 tbsp. spoons
- Salt – 3 tbsp. spoons
- Water – 1.5 cups
- Vinegar 9% - half a glass
- Black and allspice peas - to taste
- Coriander – 1 teaspoon
- Mustard seeds – 1 tbsp. spoon
- Cinnamon - small piece
Preparation:
Peel accelerator cucumbers (if they are very rough), cut into four parts, and if desired, cut out the center with the seeds. Next, cut the prepared vegetables into small “columns”, lower them into boiling water for a minute, drain through a colander and place in jars.
Prepare a marinade from water, spices and spices, pour in the overgrown pickles, pasteurize in a water bath for 20 minutes.
Candied fruits from overgrown cucumbers
photo used as illustration Ingredients:
- Overgrown cucumbers
- Sugar – half a kilo
- Water – 0.5 l
- Ground ginger - to taste
- Ground black pepper - to taste
Preparation:
Make syrup from sugar, spices and water. Peel the cucumbers, cut into pieces, remove the middle. Next, cut into pieces, dip in syrup and cook until the cucumbers are transparent over low heat. Foam will appear during cooking, which is probably inevitable. So, it needs to be removed.
When the cucumber slices become transparent, transfer them to a sieve. After which, if the syrup has drained, place it on plates and dry it in the oven. Before storing, sprinkle the candied cucumbers with sugar.
Dressing for first courses from overgrown cucumbers
dressing from overgrown cucumbers Ingredients:
- Cucumbers – 1 kg
- Onion – 200 g
- Carrots – 200 g
- Garlic – large head
- Citric acid – 5 g
- Salt – 25 g
- Fresh tarragon - optional
Preparation:
Cut the cucumber pulp without peel and large seeds into cubes.
Also chop the peeled carrot roots.
Finely chop the garlic and chop the onion.
Place the ingredients in a bowl, add lemon and salt.
Mix and leave for an hour.
Next, boil the mixture for 15 minutes and roll up.
This dressing will be good in pickles and soups, and can be stored in the refrigerator.
Cucumber caviar
Ingredients:
- Large cucumbers – 1 kg
- Sweet pepper – 2 pods
- Onion – 200 g
- Tomatoes - half a kilo
- Carrots – 300 g
- Salt – 60 g
- Vegetable oil
Preparation:
Peel the cucumber fruits, grate them coarsely and, if possible, select large seeds. Scald the tomatoes, remove the skin, and grind the fruit through a meat grinder. Bake the pepper in the oven, remove seeds and skin, cut into cubes. Grate the carrots and transfer to a frying pan with oil. Chop the onion into half rings, add to the carrots and fry together.
Combine all the vegetables, add salt, mix and cook for 40 - 45 minutes. Place the caviar into jars, roll them up and wrap them in a warm thing.
Jam from overgrown cucumbers with sea buckthorn
Ingredients:
- Peeled yolks – 1 kg
- Sea buckthorn – half a kilo
- Sugar – 1,100 kg
- Ice water
Preparation:
Cut the cucumbers into 4 parts, remove seeds from the middle, cut into cubes and pour into a convenient bowl. Pour ice water for 10 minutes, then drain the water and cover the cucumbers with sugar (take 100 g from the total weight).
Crush clean, dry sea buckthorn, mix with sugar, and bring to a boil over heat. Next, let the sweet mass cool, strain off the syrup, pour it over the cucumbers and put it on the fire.
The heating of the stove should not be high, it is better to set it slightly below average. Cook the cucumber pieces until they become translucent. Next, pour liter jars into the floor and roll them up.
If you are looking for how to salt young greens, look at the page that contains some good and quite interesting recipes for pickled cucumbers.
- Pickled cucumbers for the winter (several salting options)
You can crunch with lightly salted cucumbers:
Lecho with cucumbers
Have you ever tried lecho with cucumbers? Be sure to try it! Everyone will love the taste of summer vegetables. Overgrown cucumbers would be appropriate here.
Ingredients:
- tomatoes – 1.5 kg;
- salad pepper – 0.5 kg;
- cucumbers – 2.5 kg;
- granulated sugar – 100 g;
- garlic – 1 head;
- vinegar 6% - 100 ml;
- refined oil – 100 ml;
- rock salt – 1.5 tbsp. l.
Preparation:
Pass the tomatoes and bell peppers through a meat grinder, after removing the seeds from the pepper. Pour into a saucepan.
Add granulated sugar, salt, vegetable oil to the twisted vegetables, place the container on medium heat, bring to a boil, reduce the flame, cook for another 15 minutes.
Cut the cucumbers into half rings, 1 cm thick, and place them in boiling tomato for 10 minutes.
Grind the garlic using a garlic press, add after the cucumbers, simmer for 5 minutes, pour in vinegar and pour the resulting mixture into sterile jars, seal with sterile lids, wrap the rolls in a blanket, turning the jars over on the lid.
Cucumbers in their own juice
This interesting preserve is easy to prepare. The cucumbers and peppers are crispy and reminiscent of the taste of summer.
Ingredients:
- cucumbers – 4.5 kg;
- granulated sugar - 1 tbsp.;
- vinegar 6% - 1 tbsp.;
- bell pepper – 0.5 kg;
- vegetable oil – 1 tbsp.;
- fresh greens (dill, parsley) - 1 bunch each;
- onions – 0.5 kg;
- salt – 1/3 tbsp.
Preparation:
Cut the cucumbers into rings, onions and peppers into thin half rings, and simply chop the greens with a knife.
Mix all the vegetables in a deep bowl, add the rest of the ingredients, mix, leave the bowl of food for two hours to form juice.
Place the salad in boiled jars, cover with lids, place in a thick-bottomed pan and sterilize the salad in the jars for about 20 minutes. Seal with lids, cover with a warm item and wait until it cools completely. It is not necessary to place jars on the neck.
Spicy salad for the winter
This simple salad with a spicy note in taste will delight your household in cold weather.
Ingredients:
- onion – 0.5 kg;
- garlic – 2 heads;
- cucumbers – 2.5 kg;
- fresh tarragon - to taste;
- rock salt – 50 g;
- citric acid – 50 g.
Preparation:
Cut the cucumber pulp, peeled from seeds, and the onion into cubes.
Chop the garlic and tarragon, add to the vegetables, sprinkle with citric acid and salt, mix everything and let the salad brew for an hour.
Boil the resulting mixture for about 15 minutes, pour hot into jars and roll up. Store in a dark place.
Korean cucumbers
For lovers of spicy foods, I offer another snack option for cucumbers. Those who love Korean carrots will appreciate this recipe.
Ingredients:
- cucumbers – 2.5 kg;
- carrots – 1.5 kg;
- garlic – 2 heads;
- coriander grain – 2 tsp;
- ground red pepper – 1.5 tsp;
- paprika – 2 tsp;
- rock salt – 170 g;
- refined oil – 260 ml;
- vinegar 6% - 0.5 tbsp.;
- drinking water – liter;
- granulated sugar – 270 g.
Preparation:
Chop the cucumbers into long strips, peel the carrots, grate them as for a Korean salad, pass the garlic through a press. Mix everything and place in sterile jars.
In a separate pan, prepare the marinade, mix the bulk ingredients with the liquid ones (except vinegar). Boil the contents of the container, pour in the vinegar and pour the marinade into jars, cover with lids.
Sterilize jars of Korean-style cucumbers in boiling water for about 15 minutes. Seal with lids. Cool the glass container with the salad under a warm item.
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Maybe some people still think that these fruits can only be eaten fresh by peeling them. However, this is not true; from an overseas miracle you can prepare a lot of tasty and healthy dishes that will decorate your holiday and everyday table. We’ll talk about that in our material. We hope that these recipes will be useful to you, because today bananas are sold in any self-respecting supermarket, and besides, they are not too expensive.
Banana Pie
The first thing you can make from a banana is a sweet cake for tea or morning coffee with milk! You will need a very affordable set of products, but the taste is to die for!
Ingredients: a couple of eggs, 100 grams of sugar, a glass of kefir, three medium bananas, a couple of glasses (perhaps a little more) of wheat flour, baking soda on the tip of a knife. You will also need a little vegetable oil to grease the baking dish. And for spice lovers, you can add cinnamon and vanilla sugar, nutmeg and ginger on the tip of a knife (but you don’t have to add it, and it should still be delicious).
Let's start cooking
Tip: the almost finished pie with bananas can be topped with chocolate mixture. It's very simple to make by melting a bar of good dark chocolate in a little water. It will be good if the black sweet also comes with nuts or raisins. This will give the finished dish additional piquancy. Or you can decorate your culinary creation with fruit circles. Here is an option for what can be made quickly from bananas if the guests have already called and are almost on the doorstep. Also, such a simple dish can be suitable for evening tea or morning coffee.
Banana curd casserole: cook quickly!
This is an excellent option for what can be made from bananas and cottage cheese - a good combination both in taste and ease of preparation. And they say it’s very good for health!
We will need: one banana, a saucer (about half a kilo) of low-fat cottage cheese, a couple of large spoons of semolina, half a glass of sugar, half a glass of sour cream, a little butter for greasing the molds. As you have already noticed, this casserole is prepared without the participation of such an ingredient as eggs. To some extent, it can be considered a dietary dish.
Let's start cooking
The delicious casserole is ready. This is a good example of what can be made from a banana in a hurry: both quick and healthy. And finally, a piece of advice: it’s best to cool it without removing it from the foil, since it separates better when cold.
Fried fruit?
Is it really possible to fry bananas and it will be quite tasty? Yes, according to those who have tried this delicious delicacy. In addition, it is a valuable source of energy! And also a striking example of what can be made from a banana very quickly, if you are not afraid of culinary experiments. It is better to take bananas that are already overripe (with black skin and soft inside). You will need a good non-stick frying pan and butter for frying.
Let's start cooking
- Peel the bananas. First, cut each one in half crosswise. Then we cut each part lengthwise into slices.
- Melt butter in a frying pan.
- Place banana slices in the prepared bowl (by the way, as an option, you can cut the fruit crosswise into slices) so that they do not come into contact with each other.
- Fry over medium heat on each side until golden brown (about 2 minutes).
The result is a simple and healthy dish - What can you do to decorate it? Grate a bar of good chocolate and sprinkle on the finished slices. You can also serve them with vanilla ice cream: the taste goes well together.
What can be made from banana and milk?
Of course, delicious fluffy pancakes! They are made extremely simply, even a novice cook can do it. And don't be afraid that they will burn! Here a lot depends on the frying pan: you need to take a small pancake pan with a non-stick coating. Then everything will definitely work out.
Ingredients: 2 large and very ripe bananas (soft inside), half a glass of sugar, salt on the tip of a knife, a glass of flour, three eggs, a glass of milk, a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Let's start cooking
- Peel the bananas and mash thoroughly with a fork.
- Beat eggs and sugar in a separate bowl until foamy.
- Add the mashed banana, then the flour and beat until smooth (you can use a blender). Don't forget to add salt on the tip of a knife and a little vegetable oil (preferably olive) to the dough - it should turn out liquid.
- Heat the frying pan and grease it a little with oil. We fry pancakes using traditional technology - on both sides over medium heat.
Delicious pancakes are ready. This is another example of what can be done with bananas. The recipe for preparing a typical Russian dish with an overseas ingredient is simple; you just need to thoroughly mix the ingredients. And those housewives who constantly make pancakes will be able to cope with the new dish in one, two, three times!
What can you make from a banana and an apple?
In fact, with the addition of an overseas fruit, you can prepare a lot of already known and traditional dishes for our country. Something delicious that can be made from bananas and apples is cheesecakes! Banana gives this everyday dish a special flavor and creates an unusual texture.
Ingredients: a couple of eggs, half a kilo of cottage cheese, salt on the tip of a knife, half a glass of sugar, two bananas, two apples, flour - a couple of spoons and a certain amount to roll the formed cheesecakes. And also vegetable oil for frying.
Let's start cooking
- Peel the bananas and mash them with a fork.
- Peel the apples and chop finely.
- Mash the cottage cheese with a fork and mix with the eggs.
- Add a couple of tablespoons of flour (you can take the same amount of semolina). Mix everything thoroughly until smooth.
- Add fruit and mix again.
- Form small cheesecakes and roll in flour.
- Heat the frying pan thoroughly and fry the cheesecakes on both sides in vegetable oil.
- Serve with sour cream, jam or jam - you just can't stop eating!
In Thailand, bananas are very cheap, very tasty and are usually sold in huge bunches at once. We always have a lot of them. Often we simply don’t have time to eat so much, and bananas spoil quickly here. 2-3 days and they are rotten, another day or two and they need to be thrown away. They are not stuffed with chemicals here so that they can be stored in the refrigerator for weeks, so they must either be quickly eaten or something urgently done with them.
Overripe bananas are best used in baking, and we love baked goods. My husband and I drink tea with something tasty at least 2 times a day. Whenever possible, I try to cook delicious food myself, which is why we were looking for a house with an oven and kitchen appliances. Baking tins are a problem in Thailand and can sometimes be hard to find, but larger stores usually have them. You can also use saucepans without plastic handles or a rice cooker pan for these purposes.
So, what to cook? If you need something simpler, then I make different cupcakes. I choose recipes depending on what products are available and what I want to get. Here is one of the simple and favorite recipes:
4-5 overripe bananas,
2 eggs,
0.5 cup sugar (if bananas are not very sweet, then a little more)
100 g sl. oils,
10g baking powder (you can take 3-5g baking soda and quench it with lemon juice or vinegar)
1.5 cups flour
Grind bananas in a blender. Add sugar, eggs and melted butter, mix well, I do this directly in a blender. Then add flour and baking powder and mix. You can also add vanilla sugar, raisins, prunes, oatmeal and whatever you want. Place the dough in a greased mold (if the mold is silicone, there is no need to grease it). I used the inner bowl of a rice cooker since I didn't have a muffin tin. Place in the oven and bake for about 40-45 minutes (if making muffins, then 20-30 minutes) at 180 degrees. If you are expecting guests or just have time, you can sprinkle the finished cupcake with powdered sugar or chocolate glaze with nuts or come up with something else, but I didn’t do anything, it’s so good and quick to eat. The cake turns out very tender and tasty:
I also really liked the recipe for Brazilian banana pie. It is even tastier and more tender than the previous cupcake. Even my mother, who is on a diet, could not resist. We will need:
1.5 cups flour,
1.5 cups cornstarch,
1.5 cups sugar,
1 packet of vanilla sugar (optional without it),
1 tbsp. l. baking powder (I took 1/3 tbsp of baking soda, slaked with lemon juice, you can also use vinegar),
200 g butter,
3 eggs,
1 glass of milk,
6 bananas (I took both 4 and 8, depending on the situation)
Mix flour, starch, melted butter, sugar and slaked soda and get a dough in the form of bread crumbs. Grease the mold with oil (we have a large baking sheet, I used it instead of a mold, the cake turned out thinner than the original, but no less tasty). Pour in half the dough, distributing it evenly. Cut the bananas in half lengthwise or into 3 parts if there are not enough of them. Place it on the dough. Sprinkle the remaining dough evenly on top. Beat the whites and yolks separately. Pour the whipped yolks into the whites, mix gently while gradually pouring in the milk. Pour this mixture over the pie and bake at 180-200 degrees for about 30 minutes. Cool (although we rarely manage to wait until it cools) and cut into portions. Cold tastes better. This makes a pie like this:
Feb 10, 2012 Anna
Does this happen to you: you bought a bunch of beautiful bananas and, pleased with yourself and the fact that you started a healthy lifestyle, happily forgot about them? And then you find them, already brown, ugly, overripe, and your conscience begins to eat you... And not even eat, but eat... They say that bananas “live” from 2 to 7 days on the shelf, 2-9 days in the refrigerator and 2- 3 months in the freezer. Can you imagine how long it took you to forget about them?!
Instead of throwing them away or, worse, eating them at once, I offer several ideas that I found on the Internet - they relate specifically to brown overripe bananas.
Why did bananas suddenly appear on a blog about minimalism? I am for the economical and thrifty use of products. For their minimum in the refrigerator and maximum use. Therefore, read on...
1. Bake classic banana bread. Here, for example, is the simplest recipe:
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 spoon of soda
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, soft, room temperature
2 tablespoons olive oil
3/4 cup sugar
2 large eggs + 1 white
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 large overripe bananas
1/4 cup milk
Glaze:
120 grams low-fat cheese like Philadelphia
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1.5 cups confectioner's sugar
2 tablespoons hazelnuts
Preparation:
Making “bread”: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease the baking dish. Mix together flour, baking soda and salt. Add butter, olive oil and sugar. Beat with a mixer. Beat the eggs and whites separately, then add vanilla. Mash the bananas in the milk. Combine all ingredients together. Place in the mold. Bake for about 40-45 minutes. You can check doneness with a toothpick: insert it into the center of the pie and pull it out. It should be clean. Cool the bread.
Glaze:
Using a mixer, beat Philadelphia and vanilla. Reduce mixer speed and add confectioners' sugar.
2. Make a smoothie.
For example, like this:
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Greek yogurt + 1/2 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon peanut butter (optional, but adds flavor)
1 frozen overripe banana
4-6 ice cubes
Preparation:
Mix all ingredients in a blender. Drink right away.
3. 
Create an alternative to ice cream.
The recipe couldn't be simpler. Take 1 large overripe banana. That's it :) By the way, someone adds honey or a spoonful of peanut butter. You can also add almonds, Nutella, cocoa powder, cardamom, ginger or cinnamon.
Before you start, you need to cut the banana into pieces and freeze (for about 2 hours). Beat the banana for a long time in a blender, then put the mass in a container and back into the freezer.
4. Use banana as a butter substitute. A glass of mashed banana contains only 200 calories.
5. Start your morning with pancakes. And again a simple recipe with only 2 ingredients -
6. 
Make bananas fun.
Make, for example, parfait.
Ingredients:
100 grams Greek yogurt
1/3 cup oatmeal
1 teaspoon sesame seeds
2 tablespoons milk
Preparation:
Place the yogurt in a bowl, add the cereal, then the seeds and milk. Place the resulting mixture in a jar. Top with fresh or frozen berries and banana slices.
7. 
Prepare a crunchy treat for your pet
(just don't eat it yourself :)). Mix together:
1 cup flour
Banana puree
A little honey
1/2 cup peanut butter
If necessary, add a little water or an egg. bake at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes.
Bananas are a sweet and tasty way to satisfy your hunger when breakfast is long overdue and lunch is still far away. This healthy source of serotonin not only improves your mood, but also strengthens your heart muscle thanks to potassium.
To ensure that you always remain healthy and happy, adopt the simplest recipes for delicious banana desserts.
The first bananas are mentioned in written sources dating back to the 5th century BC! And even then, from the islands of the Malay Archipelago - the birthplace of bananas, they spread to India thanks to travelers. And bananas came to Europe in 327 BC, when Alexander the Great brought them with him from his campaign in India.
Some historians believe that the “fruit of paradise” that tempted Eve and Adam in the Old Testament is the banana.
Today, banana ranks 7th among all crops grown in the world, and there are about 300 varieties of this wonderful fruit. Bananas are eaten in all corners of the world, and they are consumed differently everywhere. The tradition of eating fruits without heat treatment, only after peeling them, is typical for countries with a temperate climate, and in the tropics they are most often boiled, fried and prepared from bananas not only for dessert, but also for main courses, side dishes, appetizers and much more.
During World War II, the Philippines even invented banana ketchup, since regular ketchup had become scarce; to make it, banana puree was mixed with vinegar, sugar, spices and red coloring.
In addition to their wonderful taste, bananas have become famous for their beneficial properties and nutritional value. Banana fruits are recommended to be eaten in case of anemia, because... They contain iron, and thanks to potassium, bananas lower blood pressure and help eliminate irritability that occurs with its deficiency. The substance tryptophan helps with heartburn and improves digestion in general. It is believed that banana is one of the best helpers in eliminating depression, and it also improves the condition of premenstrual syndrome. The vitamins contained in bananas are C, P and group B, and the calorie content of the fruit is about 100 kcal per 100g.
Banana-coconut cream dessert
You will need:
- 2 cups shortbread
- 2 tsp. Sahara
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 package pudding mix
- 1 3/4 cups milk
- 2 medium bananas
- 2 cups whipped cream
- 1/2 cup coconut flakes
Preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 190 degrees.
- Mix the crushed shortbread cookies and butter in a blender until smooth. Place in a mold.
- Place in the oven and bake for about 15 minutes until golden brown.
- Combine pudding mixture with milk and whisk.
- Cut the bananas into slices and place on the base. Spread the pudding on top. Sprinkle with coconut flakes. Cover and refrigerate until set, about 2 hours.
Banana pancakes
You will need:
- 250 ml milk
- 175 g flour
- 1 banana
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 2 tbsp. l. Sahara
- pinch of cinnamon
Preparation:
- Chop the banana and mix with milk in a blender until smooth.
- Sift flour, baking powder and cinnamon into a bowl, add salt, sugar and mix.
- Pour the liquid mixture into the dry mixture and whisk.
- Heat a frying pan and grease it with vegetable oil (just before frying the first pancakes).
- Pour the dough 1 tablespoon at a time, giving it a circle shape.
- Bake over medium heat until bubbly, then flip to the other side.
Banana mini bread
You will need:
- 230 g wheat flour
- 120 g sugar
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tsp. soda
- 1/4 tsp. sols
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 2 eggs
- 115 g butter
- 400 g banana puree
Preparation:
- Roast the walnuts in a dry frying pan for 8–10 minutes. Let cool, then chop into large pieces.
- In a large bowl, mix all dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon.
- Add walnuts. Mix well.
- Separately, whisk the eggs, add banana puree and melted butter (cooled to room temperature). Mix well.
- Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients and, using a silicone spatula, stir the mixture in a circular motion from bottom to top. Once the flour is moistened, stop stirring. The dough should be lumpy.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Grease muffin tins with vegetable oil and sprinkle with flour. Transfer the dough to the prepared pans and place in a hot oven on the middle rack for 50-55 minutes.
- Baking time depends on the size of the molds: the longer the mold, the lower the bread and the less time it takes to bake.
- Check the readiness of the bread with a wooden stick.
- Remove the finished bread from the oven and let it stand in the pan for 10 minutes. After this, remove the bread from the pan and leave to cool on a wire rack.
Sandwich with banana and Nutella
You will need:
- 1 ripe large banana
- 4 slices sandwich bread
- 2 tbsp. l. roasted almonds
- 60 g Nutella or any nut-chocolate spread
Preparation:
- Peel the banana and cut into slices. Chop the almonds.
- Spread chocolate spread on all 4 slices of bread. Sprinkle with almonds and press down with a spoon. Place banana slices on 2 slices.
- Assemble 2 sandwiches by covering 2 slices of banana bread with 2 slices of Nutella, spread side down.
- Place the sandwiches on the grill grate and place a weight on top of the board. Grill for 5 to 6 minutes, turning once to create browned stripes on the bread.
- Cut each sandwich in half diagonally. Serve hot.
Banana cookies with coconut flakes
You will need:
- 3 bananas
- 1/2 cup coconut flakes
- 2 cups oatmeal
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 10 g vanilla sugar
Preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Prepare banana puree in a blender or mash bananas with a fork.
- In a large bowl, whisk together mashed bananas, oatmeal, coconut, vegetable oil and vanilla.
- Place baking paper on a baking sheet.
- Place a tablespoon of cookies on a baking sheet and place in the oven for 15–20 minutes.
Chocolate covered bananas with nuts
You will need:
- bananas
- chocolate (preferably at least 75%)
- nuts (almonds work well)
Preparation:
- Place bananas in the freezer for 30–40 minutes.
- Melt the chocolate in a water bath and grind the nuts.
- Remove bananas from freezer, dip in chocolate and sprinkle with nuts. It is important to do this quickly so that the chocolate does not have time to cool down and the bananas do not have time to heat up.
Oatmeal muffins without butter
You will need:
- 200 g oat flour
- 50 handfuls of wheat flour
- 1 banana
- 2 eggs
- 100 g applesauce
- 2 tbsp. l. Sahara
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
Preparation:
- Combine applesauce with sugar.
- Add eggs and mix well until smooth.
- Peel the banana and crush it well with a fork in a separate container. Add the resulting pulp to the applesauce with sugar and eggs, mix.
- Sift both types of flour and baking powder into the liquid mixture, add cinnamon, knead the dough: it should not turn out too stiff.
- Preheat the oven to 160 degrees. Place paper cups into muffin tins (if you don’t use these, you can simply grease the first ones with a small amount of vegetable oil). Divide the dough into the molds and place in the oven for 25–35 minutes. Check readiness with a toothpick.
Banana pudding
You will need:
- 2 tbsp. milk
- 70 g sugar
- 1 tbsp. l. flour
- 2 tsp. starch
- a pinch of vanillin
- 2 yolks
- 14 pcs. easy-to-soak biscuits
- 2 bananas
Preparation:
- First, heat the milk, but do not bring it to a boil.
- Beat the yolks separately and pour in about a quarter of the heated milk. Beat further.
- Mix sugar, flour, starch and vanilla in a saucepan with the remaining milk.
- Cook, stirring, over medium heat until the mixture thickens. After this, remove from the heat and let the pudding cool, covered.
- While the mixture is cooling, prepare the molds. Place cookies and sliced bananas on the bottom.
- Add another layer and fill with remaining pudding.
- Garnish with banana slices and cookies.
Banana jam
You will need:
- 5 bananas
- 850 g canned pineapples
- 25 g coconut flakes
- juice of 1–2 lemons
- 320 g sugar
Preparation:
- Peel and cut the bananas.
- Cut the pineapples into rings or pieces - it doesn’t matter. Pour the liquid into the pan together.
- Measure out the coconut flakes.
- The sweetness of the syrup in pineapples from different manufacturers varies. First add 320 g of sugar and increase to taste.
- Add freshly squeezed lemon juice.
- Mix all ingredients in a saucepan.
- Stirring frequently, bring to a boil. Reduce heat and cook for 10 minutes. Then beat with a blender until the mass is homogeneous and cook until the desired thickness.
- Pour into sterilized jars and store in the refrigerator for no more than a month.
Banana sorbet
You will need:
- 2 small lemons
- 4 bananas
- 6 tbsp. l. powdered sugar
Preparation:
- Cut lemons and bananas into cubes.
- Place the pieces in a bowl and add powdered sugar.
- Beat all the ingredients until they turn into a homogeneous mass, put the puree in the freezer for 4 hours.
- To make the dessert tender, you need to stir it every hour.
And a few more non-dessert recipes
WHAT CAN BE COOKED FROM BANANAS
Today, many dessert and main courses, as well as snacks, are prepared from bananas, and on an industrial scale they are used to make jams, muffins, baby food, ice cream, chips, surrogate coffee, flour and drinks (including wine and beer). We will, of course, talk about those interesting dishes that you can easily prepare at home yourself to the delight and surprise of your loved ones.
All banana dishes can be divided into several categories: desserts, drinks, baked goods, snacks and salads, first and second courses. In our selection, we will bypass dessert dishes and drinks - they are already quite well known to Russian housewives (banana cocktails, puddings, fruit salads, etc.), and will focus on the most unusual, but suitable for everyday nutrition and easy to prepare, the first and banana main courses, as well as snacks and baked goods.
If you really want to surprise your family, try making this banana soup.
BANANA SOUP RECIPE
You will need: 500 ml vegetable broth, 50 g cashews, 1 banana, apple, leek, 2 tbsp. butter, 1 pinch ground ginger, ¼ tsp. curry.
How to make banana soup. Peel the apple, cut into cubes, cut the peeled banana into circles, wash the leek, cut the green part into pieces 4-5 cm long, and the white part into rings. Heat the butter, add leek rings, an apple and half a banana, simmer, sprinkle with ginger and curry, add salt, simmer for another 5 minutes, put in boiling vegetable broth, and simmer for 15 minutes, covered. Next, you need to puree the soup, mashing it with a spoon or using a blender, and add the remaining bananas. When serving, season the soup with fried nuts and, if desired, green onions.
This soup is very common in India; probably only a few have tried it in our country. Try to cook it and surprise your family, especially since it doesn’t require any hard-to-find ingredients. The soup can be served either hot or cold.
Pies with bananas were not baked except by those who do not bake pies at all, because bananas are a very tasty filling. But hardly every second cook uses them as a basis for dough. Well - it's worth a try!
PIE RECIPE WITH BANANA DOUGH
You will need: 100 g butter, 1 cup each flour and powdered sugar, 4 bananas, 2 eggs, 1 packet of baking powder, 2 tbsp. water and ground walnuts, salt.
How to make banana pie. Soften the butter and grind with powdered sugar until smooth and white, gradually adding beaten eggs. Pour warm water into the mixture, add flour mixed with baking powder. Peel the bananas, mash them into a puree, add to the mixture along with the ground nuts. Grease the pie pan with oil, place the dough, bake the pie for 20 minutes at 180-200 degrees, then leave in the pan for 5 minutes after baking. Transfer the pie to a plate, sprinkle with powdered sugar and decorate to taste.
This pie will appeal to all those with a sweet tooth, and if desired, you can diversify it by making a fruit filling to suit your taste: pour half of the dough into the mold, lay a layer of pineapples, bananas, apples or other fruits, then fill with the remaining dough.
Do you really like bananas? Then try making a wonderful breakfast dish with them - banana scrambled eggs.
RECIPE FOR BANANA EGGS
You will need: 2 eggs, 1 banana, butter, salt.
How to cook banana scrambled eggs. Peel the banana, cut into 1 cm thick slices, place in a frying pan with heated butter, fry on both sides until browned. Break the eggs into a bowl, add salt, beat with a fork, pour the bananas in the pan and simmer the scrambled eggs until cooked.
After trying to prepare this version of the classic banana scrambled eggs, you can supplement the recipe with other products - ham, herbs, etc.
You can also fry bananas in batter.
RECIPE FOR FRIED BANANAS IN BLASH
You will need: 1 egg, 1 banana, flour, jam for serving.
How to cook bananas in batter. Break the egg into a bowl, beat with a fork, adding flour - the dough should be suitable for batter: not too thick or liquid. Cut banana into circles, dip each circle in batter, immediately place in a frying pan with heated butter, fry on both sides until browned. Serve bananas in batter with jam.
This dish is perfect for breakfast or dessert.
Bananas go well with meat products - it’s not for nothing that in Latin America they are fried in olive oil and served as a side dish for a wide variety of main dishes. You can do this, or you can do it even more interestingly by including bananas in the main meat dish.
RECIPE FOR PORK GOULASH WITH BANANA
You will need: 500 g pork, 5-6 potato tubers, 4-5 onions, 4 bananas, 2 tbsp. chopped dill and parsley, 1 tbsp. virgin olives, 1 tsp. lemon juice, meat broth, salt.
How to cook pork goulash with banana. Peel the potatoes, rinse, cut into large slices. Cut the onion into rings, peel the bananas into thick circles (set aside half of one banana for garnish), cut the pork into small cubes. Place all the prepared ingredients in a deep frying pan or saucepan, pour in the meat broth - it should cover half of the ingredients, simmer the goulash for 40 minutes, stirring occasionally, over medium heat. When serving, garnish the goulash with banana slices, sprinkle it with lemon juice, as well as herbs and olives, and serve immediately.
Prepare this goulash - you will be guaranteed a pleasant surprise for your guests. Don't be afraid to break established traditions!
You can also cook chicken with bananas.
RECIPE FOR COOKING CHICKEN WITH RICE AND BANANAS
You will need: 30 g butter, 2 cups each of water and banana, 1 cup each of rice, chicken, a bunch of parsley, a head of garlic, 2 tbsp. ground crackers, vegetable oil, ground black pepper, salt.
How to cook chicken with banana and rice. Cut the chicken into pieces, rub with pepper and salt, and make cuts in the flesh with a sharp knife. Finely chop the parsley, pass the garlic through a press, mix with the parsley and fill the cuts (stuff) the chicken. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the chicken pieces until cooked. Wash the rice and put it in salted boiling water, prepare crumbly porridge, peel the bananas, cut them in half lengthwise, bread them in breadcrumbs, fry them in butter on both sides until browned. Place rice in a heap on a large platter, place chicken pieces on it, and place fried bananas around the heap.
This dish will look great on a holiday table.
Bananas go well with almost any meat product, including ham.
RECIPE FOR PREPARING ENTRECOTE WITH BANANAS AND HAM
You will need: 500 g boiled ham, 2 bananas, 1 glass of wine (preferably Madeira or Sherry), 2 tbsp. butter and honey.
How to cook ham entrecote with banana. Melt the butter in a frying pan, fry 4 slices of ham for 1 minute on each side, coat the slices with half the honey, fry for another 2-3 minutes, place on a heated dish. Cut peeled bananas into circles, mix with the rest of the honey, place in the same frying pan where the ham was fried, fry for 2 minutes, place on pieces of ham. Pour wine into the same frying pan, bring the mixture of wine, fat and honey to a boil, pour the prepared sauce over the entrecotes. You can serve vegetables or mashed potatoes as a side dish.
You can also combine ham and bananas in a salad.
BANANA AND HAM SALAD RECIPE
You will need: 100 g of bananas, 50 g of cream, 25 g of lean ham and raisins, 5 g of rolled oats, lemon.
How to make banana salad. Soak raisins in water for 2 hours. Fry rolled oats in butter. Cut the banana into 0.5 cm thick slices. Finely chop the ham. Squeeze out the raisins, cool the flakes, combine with ham and bananas, mix carefully. Lightly beat the lemon zest and juice with cream, place the salad on lettuce leaves and pour over the dressing, refrigerate for 30 minutes before serving, and serve with champagne.
In such a salad, you can safely replace the ham with fried mushrooms - champignons, oyster mushrooms, it will turn out differently, but also very tasty.
There is a very tasty dish in Brazilian cuisine that combines bananas with liver. You can use any liver you like as long as you prepare it accordingly.
BRAZILIAN LIVER RECIPE WITH BANANAS
You will need: 600 g of liver, 200 ml of white wine, 2 bananas, 1 lemon.
How to cook liver in Brazilian style. Mix the wine with lemon juice, marinate the finely chopped liver, leaving it in the marinade for a day. Salt and pepper the liver, bread in flour and place in a frying pan with hot vegetable oil, fry until browned, add mashed bananas, stir, simmer together for a couple of minutes and serve.
Bananas are widely used in cooking; a variety of dishes are prepared from them, tasty and unusual for Russian people. If you are not afraid to deviate from the usual canons characteristic of the cuisine of our country, you can prepare very interesting and appetizing dishes with bananas, you just need to try it!
Bananas are either eaten right away or left in the refrigerator until they turn into a sweet porridge and no one wants to look at them anymore. But isn't this another reason to be creative? I offer you excellent recipes from overripe bananas for all tastes!
Bananas that are suitable for baking are those in which not only the peel is covered with dark spots, but also the flesh itself has become dark and soft.
1. Banana muffins.
Take 2 cups of flour, 1 tsp. soda, 1/4 tsp. salt, 100 g butter, 3/4 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 4 mashed overripe bananas.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, grease the molds with oil. In a large bowl, mix flour, soda and salt, beat softened butter and sugar separately. Add lightly beaten eggs and mashed bananas and mix. Add the banana mixture to the flour mixture, mix, and pour the dough into the prepared pan. Bake in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes.
2. Excellent, the recipe with photos can be found at the link.
3. Banana cookies , spicy, with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.
4. Banana pancakes.
We will need the following products: 6-7 large overripe bananas, 2 eggs, 150 ml of milk, 1.5 - 2 tbsp. spoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, vegetable oil, salt to taste.
Pour the flour mixed with baking powder into a large container. Let's make a hole and drive in the eggs and half the milk. Knead the dough until smooth, add the other half of the milk and a spoonful of butter. Mash the bananas into porridge, add sugar and salt, mix the dough with the banana mixture and bake in a well-heated frying pan, greased with oil.
5. Banana bread pudding
We will need 2 cups of milk, mashed 6 bananas, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger, 1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg, 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice, 2 tablespoons cognac, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, dried white bread cubes.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Whisk milk, banana, sugar, eggs, spices, cognac and vanilla extract in a large bowl. Put some bread cubes there. Let it sit for 15 minutes, then put the mixture into the mold. We will bake until done - about 40 minutes. Serve with fresh fruit or whipped cream.
Bon appetit!
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It can be difficult to buy a good fruit even at the height of the melon season; sometimes, a beautiful-looking berry turns out to be spoiled inside. Such a product cannot be eaten raw, and not everyone knows what can be made from an overripe watermelon so as not to harm your health.
In fact, there are enough options for dishes based on the striped berry, and if you prepare them correctly, the spoiled taste of the fruit will not be felt.
Baking “Drunk Watermelon”: recipe
If you accidentally bought an overripe watermelon, do not rush to throw it in the trash. For such cases, a long time ago they came up with an amazing dessert recipe in which the vegetable fruit acts as a filling.
The total preparation time for the delicacy takes several hours, but the effort is worth it, because you not only find a use for the spoiled product, but also get delicious baked goods.
Ingredients
- Watermelon – 1 pc. (weighing no more than 5 kg);
- Sugar – 150 g;
- Puff pastry (we use ready-made dough) – 500 g;
- White wine (dry) – 1.5 cups;
- Gelatin – 40 g;
- Powdered sugar – 100 g;
- Lemon – 1 pc.;
- Cream - 1 glass.
Preparation
Having received such a masterpiece dessert, your family will be satisfied, and the next time you make an unsuccessful purchase, you will already know what can be made from an overripe watermelon. And to avoid selection mistakes, we offer you a useful article about the rules for choosing a watermelon:
You don’t have to make a delicious dessert just from an overripe watermelon. The recipe has several cooking technologies, one of which involves the use of moderately ripe fruits.
Using normal berries, you don’t have to bake them together with the dough in the oven, but place them in a thin layer on the already baked crust immediately before putting the baked goods in the refrigerator. Everything else is strictly according to the recipe.
By following every step of preparation exactly, you will get a delicious dessert cake that can be served with wine (red or white), soft drinks and even tea.
If you were unable to enjoy a fresh, moderately ripe watermelon due to its overripeness, then use the fruit as an ingredient for jam. When the berries are digested, all their taste defects will disappear and it will no longer be possible to be poisoned by such a product.
You will need it for jam
- Watermelon pulp – 1 kg;
- Lemon - to taste;
- Sugar – 0.7-1 kg;
- Vanillin - to taste.
Making jam
- Wash the watermelon, remove the crusts and white streaks.
- We remove the seeds from the pulp and cut it into medium cubes.
- Place the slices in any deep container, cover the berries with granulated sugar and leave them untouched for 1-2 hours, allowing the pulp to release its juice.
- After settling, place the container with the watermelon on the fire, waiting for the berry mass to boil. After boiling, the jam should boil for about 30 minutes, then let it sit again for 2 hours. The number of such approaches is 3.
- Before carrying out the last approach, we grind the twice-cooked mass in a blender, or grind it manually through a sieve.
- Add vanillin, lemon juice to the jam and boil everything again.
- After this, the watermelon dessert is considered ready. You can use it as a sweet for tea, or as a filling for baked goods.
Additional Ingredients
You can make jam with overripe watermelon in a special way by adding various natural flavors, for example:
- mint,
- ginger,
- black pepper,
- cinnamon, etc.
Such natural spices will further hide the taste of fermentation and acid in an overripe watermelon, and the overall taste of the jam will become much more pleasant and piquant.
Dessert option made from ripe berries
If you are interested in recipes for jam made from completely normal striped berries, we offer you several articles that cover the topic in detail:
Fruits that are overripe and in which the fermentation process has already begun are best suited for moonshine. What is not suitable for eating fresh will become appropriate for making mash. The main thing is not to use completely spoiled, moldy or rotten parts of the berry, and then the moonshine will come out just right.
Ingredients
- Sugar – 3 kg;
- Watermelon juice – 30 l;
- Yeast (dry) – 50 g, or pressed (300 g).
Fermented watermelon recipe
- We cut the watermelon in half, scoop out all the pulp with a spoon, but do not touch the rind and the white part near the rinds.
- Grind the pulp on a sieve. It is important that the cell size is no more than 0.5 cm, this will facilitate the process of removing watermelon seeds.
- Pour the watermelon juice into a fermentation container, add sugar and diluted yeast, and then mix everything thoroughly.
- We install a water seal on the neck (you can use a rubber glove with a small hole in your finger instead).
- For successful fermentation (lasting 3-7 days), place the wort in a dark room with a temperature of 18-27°C.
- As soon as the water seal stops gurgling (or as soon as the glove falls off, if that’s what you’re using), a slight bitter taste will appear in the mash, the wort will lighten and foam will certainly settle in it. It must be drained from the sediment into a special vessel for distilling liquid - a distillation cube.
How to distill mash: stages of distillation
Stage 1
We carry out the first distillation, selecting the most important product until the strength of the mash falls below 30°C.
Stage 2
We dilute the moonshine with plain water, achieving a strength of 18-20°C. After that, we distill it again. The first 200 ml. We collect the moonshine in a separate container; drinking this distillate is not recommended.
Stage 3
We finish distillation when the strength of the mash drops below 40°C.
Stage 4
Finally, dilute the moonshine with water, lowering the temperature to 40-45°C. After this, keep the product in a cool, dark place for 2-3 days.
As you can see, there are a lot of things that can be made from an overripe watermelon. The main thing is not to forget that if the berry is overripe, it must be subjected to heat treatment, only then will it become edible and safe for health.
Bon appetit!
Housewives usually use small or medium cucumbers for pickling. But it happens that the fruits overgrow and become overripe. They are no longer suitable for classic blanks. What then to do with them? Try preparing a delicious salad from overripe cucumbers for the winter. The taste, of course, will not be classic, but no less interesting.
It is recommended to peel yellowed fruits, which already have thick and tough skin, before cooking.
Large seeds are best removed. Therefore, recipes that require cutting them are ideal for such cucumbers.
To keep overgrown cucumbers longer, you can add a little vinegar to them.
Let's consider options for what to do with overripe cucumbers. As a rule, most housewives make a salty snack with them.
Pickling overripe fruits
This recipe makes an excellent stand-alone appetizer or addition to pickle sauce and vinaigrette. The fruits need to be cut into cubes, strips or circles, but rather large. They should be placed at the bottom of pre-sterilized jars almost to the very top. Place a little horseradish root, garlic cloves, cherry and currant leaves on top of the cucumbers. Next you need to prepare the brine. It is enough to dissolve salt in boiling water (three tablespoons per liter). Pour the prepared brine into jars, then place them in a dark place and cover with a towel. After about eight hours you can seal with lids.
Overripe cucumbers in Korean style
You can safely add Korean carrots to overripe cucumber salad recipes for the winter. With it, the snack will turn out to be original, piquant and spicy. You can take ready-made Korean carrots, but it’s better to make them yourself.
Cut approximately two kilograms of overgrown cucumbers into large cubes. Peel and grate five hundred grams of carrots to prepare Korean carrots. Place the prepared vegetables into a saucepan of suitable size. Pour in half a glass of vegetable oil and table vinegar. Also add half a pack of Korean seasoning, half a glass of sugar and fifty grams of salt. Chop five cloves of garlic and add there too. Mix everything well and leave for four hours to soak the ingredients. After this, put the overripe cucumber salad into jars for the winter, cover with lids and sterilize for fifteen minutes.
Salad "Nezhinsky"
You will need three kilograms of overripe cucumbers, seven hundred grams of onions, one hundred grams of dill, three tablespoons of sugar, two tablespoons of salt, a quarter cup of vegetable oil and the same amount of table vinegar.
Chop the greens. Cut the onion into half rings. Divide the cucumbers crosswise into four parts. Place vegetables, herbs and other ingredients into a saucepan. Mix everything and leave for about thirty minutes. At this time, prepare the jars and lids. After half an hour, place the chopped vegetables into containers. Place the salad directly in the jars in a saucepan with water, bring to a boil and leave for no more than half an hour. Carefully remove the snack and screw on the lids.
By the way, you can prepare such a salad from overripe cucumbers for the winter without sterilization. But then in this case, before filling the containers, you should first boil the vegetables for twelve minutes.
Cucumber salad “Stewed”
Overgrown cucumbers are great for preparing an unusually tasty vegetable “stew.” It perfectly complements meat, baked and other dishes. You will need the overripe cucumbers themselves (about two kilograms). You also need half a kilogram of onions, three sweet peppers, a bunch of herbs, ten cloves of garlic, one hundred and fifty milliliters of vegetable oil, twenty grams of salt, half a teaspoon of citric acid and ground black pepper.
If the cucumbers are large and overripe, then it is better to remove the peel from them. Cut the fruits into small cubes. Chop the garlic and herbs, and chop the onion and garlic into thin half rings. Heat vegetable oil in a deep frying pan. First add the cucumbers and fry until transparent. After this, add the remaining ingredients and simmer a little.
Variation “Stewed meat” with tomatoes
A salad of overripe cucumbers with tomatoes and carrots is also very tasty. You need to take about a kilogram of them. You can change the proportions to your liking. It is also acceptable to replace tomatoes with tomato paste, but ketchup or adjika will no longer work. The remaining ingredients are as in the previous recipe.
Pass the carrots through a coarse grater or cut into pieces. Chop the tomatoes too or grind them in a blender. First fry the cucumbers, then add the carrots. After ten minutes of simmering, add the tomatoes. After another five minutes, add onion, garlic and pepper to the pan. Simmer the vegetable mixture over low heat for about ten minutes. All that remains is to add salt, herbs and citric acid. Simmer for another ten minutes, stirring occasionally. Transfer the “stew” into sterile containers and close with lids. It is recommended to store cucumber salad in jars in the cellar.
Another way to prepare “Stewed meat”
This recipe requires ten overgrown cucumbers. They need to be peeled and cut into small cubes. In a frying pan with heated vegetable oil, simmer the fruits until transparent. Meanwhile, grate the carrots, dice the onion and two bell peppers. Add all the ingredients to the cucumbers and simmer for half an hour. Then place four chopped tomatoes in the pan. Simmer for another ten minutes and add salt, black pepper and sugar to taste. Keep on the stove for five minutes and pour into sterilized jars.
Salad "Piculi" from overgrown cucumbers
It’s best to start preparing a salad from overripe cucumbers for the winter by preparing the vegetables. Cut the hot pepper into thin and long strips, as far as possible. Peel the cucumbers until only one white part remains. Cut the slices approximately a centimeter wide and four centimeters long. This way the vegetables will look a little like boats. Add the remaining ingredients to the peppers and cucumbers: salt, vinegar and sugar. Mix everything well and leave to marinate. It is best to keep the salad in the refrigerator for at least an hour. After this time, the snack will be ready and can be rolled into jars.
Salad "Family"
This salad is prepared from overripe cucumbers with tomato paste. The taste is original and unusual, but the appetizer harmonizes perfectly with meat dishes. The whole family will definitely love this recipe!
To prepare the salad you will need a lot of overripe cucumbers - about five kilograms. You also need to take a half-liter jar of tomato paste, one and a half glasses of sugar, three cloves of garlic, one-third of a glass of salt, one hundred grams of vinegar and refined oil.
Wash the cucumbers, preferably removing the skin and seeds. It doesn’t matter how you cut cucumbers for the winter - into circles, cubes or cubes. Peel the garlic, chop finely or pass through a press. In a heatproof saucepan, combine the vegetables and all remaining ingredients: sugar, salt, tomato paste, vinegar and oil. Simmer the contents under the lid on the lowest heat for about twenty minutes. You need to wait until the cucumbers release their juice. After this, you can turn up the heat to medium. When the appetizer boils, it needs to be simmered for another twenty minutes.
The finished dish is still hot, put into sterile jars and rolled up. Experienced housewives recommend adding mustard powder, adjika or hot pepper to this salad to make the preparation spicier.
Caviar from overripe large cucumbers
For a kilogram of overripe cucumbers, you need to take the same number of red tomatoes, half a kilogram of red carrots and bell peppers, as well as one large onion. Black pepper and salt should be added to your taste.
For caviar, as you know, all vegetables must be chopped. Therefore, tomatoes and carrots should be coarsely grated, and cucumbers, peppers and onions should be cut into small cubes. If desired, all vegetables can be pureed with a blender, but then the appetizer will acquire a slightly different taste. However, this is a great option if you are tired of making winter preparations with cucumber slices.
Simmer all the chopped vegetables in a frying pan for one hour. Be sure to stir, otherwise the mixture will burn. If desired, onions and cucumbers can be lightly fried in vegetable oil. Then the salad will taste more like vegetable caviar. But in this case it will become less useful. Which option to choose is up to you to decide. Let's get back to preparing the salad. After stewing, add pepper and salt to the vegetables and stir. Simmer in the pan for about five more minutes.
Next, you can put the finished cucumber caviar into sterilized jars, if that’s what you’re used to doing. Some housewives recommend adding a tablespoon of vinegar to the appetizer immediately after turning off the stove. If you plan to eat the salad in the near future, then just put it in clean containers and put it in the refrigerator after cooling. It will keep well there for several days.
You were presented with all the most delicious and popular recipes for salads from overripe cucumbers for the winter. Which one to choose depends on taste preferences and storage method. Some people get confused by the last question, so it's worth paying a little attention to.
How to store salads made from overgrown cucumbers?
Winter preparations from overripe cucumbers that have been subject to any sterilization must be kept in a cool place. Although they are perfectly stored in a room at room temperature, a prerequisite must be the absence of direct sunlight, otherwise the contents of the jars will deteriorate ahead of time. But salads made from overripe cucumbers for the winter, which were closed without sterilization, must be kept strictly in a cold room. It is recommended to place the jars in a cellar or basement. If there is no such place, then the bottom shelf of the refrigerator is perfect.
How to eat cucumber salads?
As practice shows, it is best to eat snacks made from overripe cucumbers no earlier than five weeks after preparation. During this time, the salad will have time to brew, so it will be more tasty. It is usually served cold as a snack. But some people like to use cucumbers as a side dish. First, place it on a plate and heat it in the microwave or on the stove. This dish is served with meat, poultry or fish.
Do you have overripe cucumbers? Now you know what to do with them. They can make completely different, but always tasty preparations for the winter. They will save money and save the fruits grown with such difficulty.
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