Sweet watermelons in jars for the winter at home
For lovers and connoisseurs of balanced taste, we advise you to take a closer look at watermelons preserved in this marinade. After all, the caramel taste is diluted with the slight sourness of wine vinegar, which prevents cloying sweetness.
Cooking time: 50 min.
Cooking time: 20-25 min.
Servings – 15-20.
Ingredients:
- Watermelon – 1 pc.
- Granulated sugar – 3 tbsp. l.
- Salt – 1 tbsp. l.
- Grape vinegar (6%) – 4-5 tbsp. l.
- Water – 1 l.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Let's start by preparing the brine. To do this, dissolve salt and sugar in the required amount of water and bring to a boil over medium heat. The proportions of ingredients for brine are given per liter.
Step 2. At the same time, cut the clean watermelon into slices along with the peel. It is important that the pieces fit easily into the jar.
Step 3. We proceed to placing the watermelon slices into the jar, trying not to deform them.
Step 4. Pour vinegar into the boiling brine and after a few minutes remove it from the heat.
Step 5. Immediately pour the hot brine into jars with watermelons, cover them with lids and send them to sterilize.
Step 6. Sterilize the filled jars within 15 minutes from the moment the water boils.
Step 7. After this time, remove the jars from the pan, roll up the lids and leave to cool to room temperature.
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Storage Features
Canned watermelons are kept in cellars, pantries, and on glazed and insulated balconies. The temperature should not fall below +4°C, the optimal humidity level is within 80%.
Cans in which foam appears or the lids swell are disposed of. This product is not suitable for food.
How to deliciously pickle watermelons for the winter in jars?
In this brine, watermelon slices are perfectly preserved until next summer, the main thing is not to be lazy and adhere to all the time limits.
Cooking time: 50 min.
Cooking time: 20-25 min.
Servings – 20.
Ingredients:
- Watermelon – 1-1.5 pcs.
- Salt – 1 tbsp. l.
- Granulated sugar – 2-3 tbsp. l.
- Table vinegar (9%) – 35 ml.
- Water – 1 l.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Carefully wash the watermelon with soda so that the rind is completely clean. Then dry and cut into thick slices.
Step 2. And we cut the same slices into triangles so that they easily fit into the jar.
Step 3. At the same time, we sterilize the jars in the most usual way and put watermelon slices in them. Then pour boiling water into the jars with watermelon, cover with lids and leave for 10-15 minutes.
Step 4. Drain the cooled water from the jars, add salt and sugar to it and boil for a couple of minutes. This is a necessary step for preparing the brine. At this time, pour vinegar into the jars.
Step 5. Fill the jars with boiling brine, roll up the lids and leave them alone until they cool completely. Then we send it for storage until the cold winter.
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Canned watermelons in jars without sterilization with aspirin
During the sterilization process, watermelons can become softer, which not many people like. And aspirin in this case will preserve the watermelon slices and leave them crispy, juicy and whole, which will certainly please you and your loved ones in the cold winter.
Cooking time: 45 min.
Cooking time: 15 min.
Servings – 20-25.
Ingredients:
- Watermelon – 1 pc.
- Granulated sugar – 3 tbsp. l.
- Salt – 1 tbsp. l.
- Aspirin – 2 pcs.
- Garlic – 5-6 teeth.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Wash the watermelon and leave to dry. At this time, we will take out and measure the required amount of other ingredients that will be useful to us during the cooking process.
Step 2. Then we return to the watermelon. We cut off the peel from it, and cut the pulp into small pieces so that they can easily fit into a jar.
Step 3. We also cut the peeled garlic cloves into small slices.
Step 4. Smoothly move on to sterilizing the jars. Then fill them with chopped watermelon and boiling water. Leave it like this, covered, for about five minutes.
Step 5. Drain the warm water from the jars and place on low heat. And add garlic, granulated sugar, salt and aspirin to watermelons. Leave everything like that without stirring.
Step 6. Fill the jars with boiling marinade and roll up the lids using a key. This completes the preparation.
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How to roll watermelons with vinegar in jars for long-term storage?
Vinegar is an almost indispensable preservative if you are sure that your watermelon slices will not fly apart before the onset of winter. It is also impossible not to mention how seasoned and moderately sweet the marinade is when combined with watermelon juice.
Cooking time: 45 min.
Cooking time: 15 min.
Servings – 20.
Ingredients:
- Watermelon – 2000 gr.
- Granulated sugar – 100 gr.
- Salt – 50 gr.
- Table vinegar (9%) – 80 gr.
- Water – 1-1.5 l.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Cut the watermelon into triangular slices so that they easily fit through the neck of the jar.
Step 2. Sterilize the jars and fill them with chopped watermelon.
Step 3. Combine sugar and salt in warm water, stir well. Cook the marinade for about five minutes from the moment it boils and towards the end pour vinegar into it.
Step 4. Pour the boiling marinade over the watermelons and cover them with lids. After which we immediately sterilize the filled jars in boiling water for about 10 minutes.
Step 5. After this time, roll up the lids of the jars, turn them over and leave to cool, wrapped in a blanket. This completes the preparation of pickled watermelons.
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Selection and preparation of ingredients
To choose a good watermelon for canning, you need to choose a small berry that will be slightly underripe and with an intact thin rind. It is better to choose a berry weighing 2 kg.
A watermelon with cracks, dents, or dark spots should not be canned - the taste of the product will be hopelessly spoiled, even if the slightest piece of such a berry ends up in the jar.
Important! It is necessary to take
for canning a watermelon with flesh that is not red, but pink. crumbly pulp in the middle of the fruit
is also not suitable If you can a large, ripe watermelon, the end result will have the consistency of jelly. To preserve watermelons, you must first wash them thoroughly and wipe them dry. You should wash it very well, since finished twists will not be sterilized. However, many housewives sterilize empty jars before putting food in them - this takes less time and effort, and also improves the quality and reliability of preservation.
Then you need to cut the berries: cut off the top and bottom parts, cut the fruit in half, and then into half rings, after which each resulting piece is cut into another 3-4 pieces so that they pass freely through the neck of the jar.
Watermelons in jars with citric acid for the winter
This homemade preparation will delight anyone who wants to plunge into summer in winter. Incredibly tasty watermelon slices and refreshing juice will quench your thirst, fill your body with healthy vitamins and just make you smile, which is especially important.
Cooking time: 50 min.
Cooking time: 15-20 min.
Servings – 15.
Ingredients:
- Watermelon – 1500-1800 gr.
- Granulated sugar – 6 tbsp. l.
- Salt – 2 tbsp. l.
- Citric acid – 1 tsp.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Cut the washed watermelon into triangular slices along with the peel.
Step 2. Then put them in the prepared jar. And pour boiling water over it. Warm the watermelons for 15 minutes, covering with a lid.
Step 3. Then drain the water from them, boil them again and pour them into the jars again. Leave the watermelons for another 15 minutes. After this time, drain the water again and begin preparing the marinade. We put the water on the fire, add salt and sugar and boil for a couple of minutes. Finally, add citric acid and stir vigorously. Pour boiling marinade over watermelons.
Step 4. We roll up the jars with sterilized lids, turn them upside down and keep them under a blanket for 24 hours. After this time, they can be transferred to the pantry.
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Canning Tips
To preserve watermelons for the winter in jars, containers of any size are used, but three-liter containers are ideal for a large family.
Recipes use different components, combining the main ingredient with grapes, garlic, currant or apricot leaves. Each added product changes the taste of the finished dish.
Watermelons of any size and variety are suitable for canning. Do not use overripe ones - after pickling they lose their taste and shape. As a result, instead of neat slices, a mushy mass will remain in the jars.
By using early-ripening varieties for canning, housewives run the risk of “clogging” dangerous nitrates into jars. Therefore, harvesting is done at the end of August - beginning of September.
How to seal pickled watermelon with pieces of garlic in jars?
It would seem that you tried everything, but that was not the case. It’s hard to pass by such a delicacy and not feel the spicy aroma, which is accompanied by piquant notes of all the spices. Preparing this recipe is not difficult, and the result is pleasantly surprising.
Cooking time: 80 min.
Cooking time: 40 min.
Servings – 20.
Ingredients:
- Watermelon – 1 pc.
- Granulated sugar – 3 tbsp. l.
- Salt – 1 tbsp. l.
- Water – 1 l.
- Citric acid – 1 tsp.
- Garlic – 3-4 teeth.
- Sweet peas – 6 pcs.
- Black peppercorns – 10 pcs.
- Cloves – 6 pcs.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Initially, sterilize the jars with lids.
Step 2. Then, as carefully as possible, cut the watermelon along with the peel.
Step 3. Place cloves, pepper and chopped garlic into the bottom of a sterilized jar.
Step 4. Following the spices, layer the watermelon slices.
Step 5. Bring clean water to a boil and pour it over the watermelon.
Step 6. Leave the watermelons to warm up, covered with lids, for 15 minutes.
Step 7. After this time, drain the water from the watermelons back into the pan and put it on the fire.
Step 8. Then pour boiling water over the watermelons again and leave them aside for 10-15 minutes.
Step 9. After this time, pour the water into the pan for the last time, pour salt and sugar into it, stir and put on the fire until it boils.
Step 10. Pour citric acid into jars of watermelons.
Step 11. And finally, pour the boiling marinade into jars with heated watermelons, screw them tightly with lids and leave to cool to room temperature, wrapped in a blanket.
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