How to make a salad from a mix of vegetables for the winter

Sometimes in winter, the bright colors of summer are so lacking. It has long been proven that color affects a person’s mood, for example, gray contributes to the appearance of melancholy and despondency, while red, green, yellow and orange are colors that give vitality and optimism.

So how to diversify winter weekdays and dilute their gray tones with color? Very simple: preserve the summer in the bank!

If you don't already know what wintery prepare, editorial "Site" He invites you to pay attention to Kuban salad recipe .

Vegetable Salad for Winter Ingredients

• 0.5 kg cabbage
• 0.5 kg cucumbers
• 0.5 kg of tomatoes
• 0.5kg sweet pepper
• 250g onion
• 250g carrots
• 125 ml of sunflower oil
• 75ml table vinegar 9%
• 60g sugar
• 1.25 tbsp table salt
• 10 pcs of black pepper peas
• 5 bay leaf pieces

Preparation

1. Nash the cabbage, add half a tablespoon of salt and stir the cabbage, slightly taking it with your hands.
   
   
   
   
2. Next, clean the pepper from seeds and white veins. Cut the flesh with medium-sized bars.
   
   
   
   
3. Then cut the cucumbers in circles about 5 millimeters thick and add them to the rest of the vegetables.
   
   
   
   
4. After cutting the tomatoes in large cubes and also send to the pan to the other ingredients.
   
   
   
   
5. Peel the onions and cut with medium-thick semi-rings.
   
   
   
   
6. Carrots are also peeled and cut into thin bars.
   
   
   
   
7. Send the vegetables into a large pan, add to them the remaining salt, vegetable oil, black pepper and bay leaf. Here, pour 25 ml of vinegar. Mix the ingredients carefully, cover the pan with a lid and leave for 1 hour to pickle. During this time, mix vegetables several times so that they are evenly soaked in marinade.
   
   
   
   
8. Then put the pan on a medium fire and bring the vegetables to a boil. Then reduce the fire and cook the salad under the lid for 8 minutes, stirring once every 2 minutes. At the end of the cooking, pour the remaining vinegar into the pan, stir the vegetables again and turn off the fire. Sterilize the cans and put the salad in them.
   
   
   
   

It turns out that it is not so difficult to prepare masterpieces from simple products, the main thing is to have the desire and be ready to spend a little time.

Send this wonderful recipe for harvesting vegetables for the winter to friends - they will say more than once: "Thank you"!