Watermelon is a favorite berry that gives sweetness and moisture in summer. It is very rich in vitamins, microelements and other substances useful to humans. But what to do if winter has come, and without these berries "in any way"? In this article we will tell you how to properly prepare pickled watermelons in banks for the winter, so that they turn out tasty and healthy.
Watermelon as a snack
Strangely enough, but watermelons are used not only as a sweet dessert in the summer, but also as an excellent snack for the winter period. These berries are salted and pickled in jars, and many consider them no worse than pickled tomatoes and cucumbers.
Canned berries are obtained in the seams are not as salty as tomatoes, the pickle in them is sweeter. As a preservative in such marinades used aspirin, citric acid and vinegar.
From this berry make various preparations for the winter:
- marinate;
- canned;
- soaked;
- salt;
- prepare jam and confiture.
How to choose a product
Watermelon for salting should be intact, small and slightly immature. If you choose not such a berry - the preparation will turn out to be gel-like. The ideal weight of the object - 2 kilograms.
The fact that the fruit is overripe, may indicate cracks on its surface. Also, do not buy specimens on which there are dark spots, dents, as they are not suitable for blanks.
The taste of seaming hopelessly spoil if at least a piece of this fruit falls into seaming.
Important! It is better to use for pickling berries with pink, not red pulp. Fruits with a crumbly sugar medium are not suitable. It is best to choose berries with a thin crust.
Sterilization Cooking Recipe
Watermelons can be preserved in two ways - with and without sterilization. The first method of seaming takes a little more time. Let's look at the classic recipe for canning watermelons with sterilization in a can.
To save greens and vegetables in winter, see the recipes for preparing squash, sorrel, garlic, zucchini, pepper, red cabbage, asparagus bean, eggplant, parsley, horseradish, parsnip, celery, rhubarb, cauliflower, tomato.
Ingredients
For seaming the berries will require:
- banks (you can take three-liter, you can take liter, it is convenient as a hostess);
- covers.
The recipe is designed for 1.5-2 kg of product, so for rolling it is necessary to take such products:
- 1.5-2 kg of ripe watermelons;
- 70 ml of 9% vinegar;
- litere of water;
- one and a half tablespoons of salt;
- three tablespoons of sugar.
Did you know? The watermelon rind is edible. You can roll it up - pickle, make jam and jams from it. And watermelon seeds can be eaten, pre-fry.
Step-by-step instruction
In order to pickle the berry, you need:
- In the pot pour a liter of water.
- Add salt, sugar and bring to a boil.
- Boil for 10-15 minutes.
- Add 70 ml of vinegar, mix.
- Wash berries, dry.
- Cut into slices (so that it was convenient to put them in jars).
- Pour hot brine jars with fruit.
- Cap the lids and sterilize for 20 minutes.
- After get them and roll.
- Turn upside down and wrap a warm blanket.
- After the banks have cooled down, transfer them to the storage areas for the seals.
Without sterilization
These fruits can be rolled up for the winter and without sterilization. This method of preparation is easy and fast. Let's consider the option of canned watermelons without sterilization. 
Grocery list
In order to preserve watermelons without sterilization, you need to take:
- three-liter jars;
- sealing caps;
- boiling water.
- Product - you need to take only ripe. Green watermelon will be tasteless.
- Three tablespoons of sugar.
- One tablespoon of salt.
- 2 tablets of aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid).
- A slice of lemon, peeled from the zest.
- As a spice, you can add cloves, cinnamon, coriander, tarragon, allspice and mint. Fans of savory taste can add hot red pepper at the rate of one pod per seaming.
Cooking
For seaming, you can take the berries and faint, and thick-skinned. Preparing such seaming is very simple:
- Three-liter jars to wash and dry. Sterilizing is not necessary.
- If you decide to add red pepper in the roll-in, then you need to lay it on the bottom. Pepper is not cut, put entirely. If the pepper is not cut in the roll, the fruit will not be sharp. If the peppercorn is chopped or cracked, then the seaming will be fiery.
- Prepare the fruit. Wash berries, wipe and chop. Properly cut in this way - cut off the upper part in the form of a cover and the same from the bottom. To cut in half. Next, cut into semi-circles. And then split each semicircle. Each piece must be of such size that it can pass through the neck of the jar. It is not necessary to press and tamp the watermelon pieces, as the flesh is juicy and brittle.
- Next, add two aspirin tablets to each container.
- Put three tablespoons of sugar in each pot.
- In a container pour a tablespoon of salt.
- In each of them put a slice of lemon, peeled from the peel and peel, preferably without stones.
- Pour boiling water over the jars.
- Cover and roll up.
- Turn the rolled-up containers with the lid down. Wrap a warm blanket.
- After the tanks have cooled down (approximately the next day), they can be transferred to the basement, cellar, and storage room.
Did you know? In 1981, in Zanzuji in Japan, a farmer brought out a square watermelon for more compact storage.
Storage rules
If you can not keep fresh watermelon at least for the New Year - canned and pickled berries are an excellent option. Canned berries in cans can be stored for up to one year.
Pickled berries are stored longer, but, in principle, pickled homemade products should not be stored for more than a year and a half. You most likely will not be able to save the pickled berries until spring.
This is due not so much to the storage conditions as to the fact that the blanks will be eaten until a limited time. To pickle these berries, use the refrigerator or cellar.
Important! Storage in the cellar of salted fruits requires wooden barrels. If vinegar was used when salting the fruit, then they should be stored only in the refrigerator or cellar.
Pickled fruit should be stored in the same place as salted. You can sour berries in jars and in barrels. Pickled berries from salted differ only in special spices, such as ginger, garlic. This blank has similar storage times, it is better to use it until spring.There are many recipes for preparing watermelons for the winter in banks and other containers (without sterilization), some of which were disclosed in our article.
Using these recipes seaming favorite treats, reading the photo blanks, you will be able to save a watermelon for a long time and will enjoy it in the cold winter evenings.
