Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)

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Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)

Ingredients

Fresh cucumbers

Cooking method

  • Again, a scientific and educational topic, from a series of questions "is it possible to freeze fresh cucumbers, and what to do with them next.")))
  • I answer: you can freeze fresh cucumbers!
  • I pick fresh, flavorful cucumbers, green and firm crunchy.
  • Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)
  • Peel the cucumbers, rinse under warm water, rinse with cool water.
  • Transfer to a colander to remove excess water. I additionally wipe the cucumbers with a towel so that they become dry and thus reduce, to minimize the presence of liquid in them.
  • Cut off the butt-ends, and cut cucumbers into round slices about 0.5-1 cm thick.
  • Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)
  • Transfer the cucumbers to a bag.
  • It is very convenient to take a portion of cucumbers with such a "spatula" made of plastic. It is very thin and flexible, which is very convenient to transfer cucumber rounds to a watering can, and from there into a bag.
  • Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)
  • I use a watering can with a wide neck to put in bags, then the cucumbers will not fall through the bag, and will not fall on the floor during manipulation with them. A very handy thing, this watering can! I put cucumbers in it, lifted them over the package, and they fall into the package - it's convenient!
  • Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer) Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)
  • I close the bags tightly, stick a label with the name of the product.
  • Done! Can be stored in the freezer!
  • Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)
  • Dicing cucumbers - salad option
  • I added crunchy gherkins, cut into cubes, to my blanks for use in salads in the winter.
  • First, I cut the cucumbers with wheels about 1 cm thick and then through a vegetable cutter to make small cubes, convenient for salad.
  • Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)
  • Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer) Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer) Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)
  • Slicing in this vegetable cutter. A glass is also inserted from above, which allows you to collect slices in it and immediately transfer it to a bag.
  • Tip: you don't need to cut a lot of cucumber cubes at once so that they do not have time to give away their juice, but keep it inside. So I quickly cut into cubes and quickly put into bags, and quickly put in the freezer for shock freezing.
  • Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)
  • After freezing, the cucumbers in the package look like this:
  • Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)
  • At the bottom left, a couple of pieces of cucumber fell out of the bag, you can see how they look - they look quite good. The bag can now be stored in the freezer. If you turn the bag around, then the cucumber cubes will fall apart and scatter on the sides like frozen peas))
  • And this is how frozen cucumbers look on a plate, prepared for salad
  • Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)
  • When using frozen cucumbers from a bag, they do not need to be thawed !!!
  • Otherwise, a lot of liquid will be released from the cucumbers, and they will completely lose their appearance, turn into soggy "rags".
  • For cooking, frozen cucumbers are immediately put into operation in a frozen state (in soup, in a frying pan, in pasta, salads and so on ..), then the appearance of cucumbers and taste will be completely preserved!
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Note

The way you cut cucumbers can be different.:
- cubes for salad, okroshka
- rounds for Provencal salad marinated with cabbage. In such a salad, it is the round loaves that are more appropriate, they are very crispy after pickling
- fries, straws, mashed potatoes and so on will be useful to someone ...

The cutting method depends on what you plan to use the frozen cucumbers for in the future.

Personally, I don't have so much space in the freezer to stock up on ice cream cucumbers for all occasions of culinary ideas
But a small bag of round, for Provencal cabbage - this makes me very happy

In the process of discussing and commenting on the topic, she changed her mind, and cut into cubes about three kilograms of cucumbers, and put them in the freezer.
Especially after I tried the vegetable salad with cucumber cubes from the freezer

Here, what not to do is freeze the cucumbers whole, especially if they are large!
How to cut whole cucumbers later, they are like an icicle So they need to be thawed so that they become a little soft for slicing - and this is already bad, defrosted cucumbers, this is outright disgusting, sorry
Therefore, we cut them to the required size so as not to defrost them and immediately throw them into the salad. There they are quickly soaked with salad dressing-sauce and then defrost quickly (since they are finely chopped) and the taste is preserved and does not creep.

Girls, to understand "but I need it"? freeze one cucumber at a time in different cuts (round, cubes), and then cook something with them in a couple of days, for example, Olivier salad, okroshka (cubes) or Provencal cabbage with kruglyashi, or ... something else to taste.

And then you will understand whether you need to freeze cucumbers, in what slicing and in what quantity - and most importantly, you yourself and your family will understand whether you need frozen cucumbers or not

I specially freeze a small bag of cucumbers, namely gherkins, in order to use them in Provencal salad in winter
Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)Cabbage salad "provencal"
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Cucumbers are crispy and tasty

Commentary by Natasha Chuchelka

Quote: Scarecrow

You know, heavy winter salads like Olivier, capital, fish and so on have never been a problem. Because they require a decent refueling to "wet". There is nothing else "wet". As a result, I just put in less mayonnaise (hallelujah!))). Because in cucumber juice, it is perfectly distributed over the salad, even in not very large portions. The salad is not worth a stake and a dry lump)). But there is no juice at the bottom, the salad doesn't float, it's just not dry. I hope I explained it more or less clearly))). You will find your ratio of salad to the number of cucumbers: so that it is not wet, but you have a pleasant consistency.

Bon appetit, everyone!

kubanochka
Today I cooked another batch of cucumber jam, went to freeze
Thank you, Tanyush, another way to utilize the cucumber crop.
Admin
Quote: RepeShock

Cucumbers!) I'll delete it as you fix it)

Ira, Thank you! rules, I tried - en, no, something remained
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Quote: kubanochka

Today I cooked another batch of cucumber jam, went to freeze
Thank you, Tanyush, another way to utilize the cucumber crop.

Linen, who is talking about what and I'm already fed up with jam for today - I have jam day, now "strawberries with blueberries" are being cooked

Now let the girls express what they do with ice cream cucumbers
kubanochka
Quote: Admin
Now let the girls express what they do with ice cream cucumbers
I'll freeze it for now ... and then I'll wait for the recipes ... where do they ... ice cream ... to put.
Admin
Quote: kubanochka

I'll freeze it for now ... and then I'll wait for the recipes ... where do they ... ice cream ... to put.

the main thing is to dig deeper, and then we will figure out where they are ... Oh, Lenok!
anavi
Quote: Admin
I use a wide-mouth watering can for packing into bags
Admin, Tatiana, already in which recipe you have I meet this watering can. And what is it - like a funnel, right? And where can I get it?
ang-kay
Quote: Admin
Now let the girls express what they do with ice cream cucumbers
I immediately freeze cucumbers, green onions and herbs cut for okroshka in one package. I don't defrost it, but just load it into the pan where I make okroshka. Checked. Works. But I never froze cucumbers separately. Interesting.
Admin
Quote: anavi

Admin, Tatiana, already in which recipe you have I meet this watering can. And what is it - like a funnel, right? And where can I get it?

Olya, here's a special topic made How quickly and accurately can the workpieces be put into a bag or jar?
anavi
Admin, Tatiana, you are just a storehouse of ideas! I never cease to amaze ... and admire ...
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And I ... I also embroider with a cross THANKS for the kind words
lettohka ttt
I definitely didn't freeze the cucumbers, it's interesting to try! Tatiana, thank you! For your invaluable ideas and recipes !!!
Scarecrow
I always ice it in cut cubes. In this form, they go everywhere in winter: in salads, okroshka. Do not defrost - blur with ice cream.
Irgata
yes, it's a pity to lose garden cucumbers, we freeze everything, and cucumbers don't forget

in okroshka, also some kind of cooling from a portion of frozen cucumbers
Admin

Girls, these are what kind of freezers do we need, what size, volume, and how many should be in order to put all our wishes-wishes in the winter
And don't forget about canned food in cans!
Oh, it's hard for a woman's share, oh it's hard, to keep under control all the time, how to stuff all your edible stuff somewhere and save it, and then feed it to your household on time
ang-kay
It is worse when this is not in the preparations or there is no means to prepare it or there is no desire. And so, let's figure it out)))
Shyrshunchik
Girls, but I didn't like my experience of freezing cucumbers, I tried to freeze them as much as 20 years ago (then we got a freezer) and of course I wanted fresh cucumber in the Olivier salad, and in winter, I froze the little ones, but the smell really remained, but the cucumbers in the salad Not really.
Admin
Quote: Shyrshunchik
tried to freeze them whole

Tan, and then how to cut whole cucumbers, they are like an icicle So they need to be thawed so that they become a little soft for slicing - and this is already bad, defrosted cucumbers, this is outright disgusting, sorry
Therefore, we cut them to the required size so as not to defrost them and immediately throw them into the salad. There they are quickly soaked with salad dressing-sauce and then defrost quickly (since they are finely chopped) and the taste is preserved and does not creep.
Irgata
Quote: Shyrshunchik
the smell really remained, but the cucumbers in the salad were not very good.
yes, the cucumber is very juicy, the moisture in it freezes and, when thawed, seems to flow out of the cucumber pieces = juice is obtained separately, rather tough cucumber pieces separately

about 8 years ago I froze cucumbers for the first time, at work I heard - delicious, cut into circles, as advised, and I had a cucumber smell and taste, but the cucumber rounds themselves, having given everything out of themselves, did not eat, did not chew, tasteless
Shyrshunchik
Here's how I try to freeze a cucumber, break it with a blender and freeze it in ice bags and the taste and smell in the salad will be.
Admin
Quote: Irsha
the cucumber rounds themselves, having given everything from themselves

Ira, the method of slicing cucumbers can be different:
- cubes for salad, okroshka
- rounds for Provencal salad marinated with cabbage. In such a salad, it is the round loaves that are more appropriate, they are very crispy after pickling.
- straws, mashed potatoes and so on will be useful to someone ...

It all depends on what is it planned to use frozen cucumbers for in the future.

Personally, I don't have so much space in the freezer to stock up on ice cream cucumbers for all occasions.
But a small bag of round, for Provencal cabbage - this makes me very happy
Albina
TatyanaI'm shocked 🔗
I would never have thought of freezing cucumbers. But we have such a price, and the quality of the store ... I doubt that I will freeze. But I tidied up the bookmarks. 🔗
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Quote: Irsha
Tanya, do you pickle them separately from cabbage or all together? and - if separately - without defrosting?

Ira, I throw frozen cucumbers (including frozen grapes) into shredded cabbage (in large cubes), and fill it with hot marinade filling (see the recipe for the composition of the marinade). During this time, the cucumbers are saturated with warm marinade (since the hot marinade has time to cool in raw vegetables), give up their raw cucumber juice and become very tasty and do not creep. The raw cucumber juice is being replaced with hot marinade.

Ira, seduced - I'll just try pour ice cream cucumbers with marinade, I think that from this procedure they will not be worse
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Quote: Albina

TatyanaI'm shocked Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)
I would never have thought of freezing cucumbers.

AlbinaShock with us

Well, maybe it's worth freezing a bag of gherkins, so that for the new year or the birthday of a loved one, create an Olivier salad with fresh cucumbers Gherkins are not sold in winter
Admin
Girls, to understand "but I need it"? freeze one cucumber at a time in different cuts (round, cubes), and then cook something with them in a couple of days, for example, Olivier salad, okroshka (cubes) or Provencal cabbage with kruglyashi, or ... something else to taste.

And then you will understand whether you need to freeze cucumbers, in what slicing and in what quantity - and most importantly, you yourself and your family will understand whether you need frozen cucumbers or not
Admin
Quote: Irsha
the round itself is made drier and harder, and the juice is concentrated in the form of frost - here it really changes the appearance of the sliced ​​cucumber

Ira, well, do not invent and do not frighten the people
I have experience with freezing round, I can say something about them. I cut the round ones with a thickness "for salad" not thicker than 1 cm. And they are stored well and nothing freezes.
And if sliced ​​cucumbers are stored in the freezer for one season, as required by the rules for storing food, nothing will happen to them - it has been verified by our own experience
Scarecrow
I don't have any frost either. I take a disposable plastic container, a plastic bag and diced cucumbers in it, I tie the bag. Into the freezer. In the freezer, it all freezes in the form of a briquette, but not a monolith (after all, it's not mashed potatoes, but cubes). Then it breaks off well with a knife as needed. After freezing, the briquette can be removed and the container can be used many more times, or you can leave it that way. If I take it out, I put it in another bag. Polyethylene is thin, tears easily, I do not like it when the product absorbs the smell of the freezer.
Shyrshunchik
Maybe when my cucumbers are from the garden there is a sense of freezing, but when I have purchased ones, I will buy them in winter if I want to, but usually in winter I want salty salads. Well, for the smell I will freeze in small briquettes, grated, there will be somewhere a tablespoon, this will be enough for a salad.
Scarecrow
Shyrshunchik,

Definitely right, in my personal opinion. That's why I freeze because I have - not purchased, but my own, from the garden. I want the taste and smell of my cucumbers in the salad / okroshka. Over the past season (winter / spring) I did not buy a single store cucumber / tomato. They taste about nothing in my opinion. That's why I freeze.

It makes sense to do this only if you buy seasonal local soil a little from some grandmother. Otherwise, it makes no sense.
Admin
Quote: Scarecrow
It makes sense to do this only if you buy seasonal local soil a little from some grandmother. Otherwise, it makes no sense.

Your truth, Natasha Only your own, grandmothers, fragrant gherkins
Crochet
Scarecrow, Tus, and you then use frozen cucumbers only for okroshka or add somewhere else?
Scarecrow
Crochet,

In salads with fresh cucumber: olivier, fish from canned fish, tenderness (with prunes).
marina-asti
Scarecrow, yesterday I cut 2 kg, so I think that's enough for me
I never froze, I don't understand if I have enough for a test or not.
Olgushechka81
Thoughts converge, without even seeing this topic, I also decided to try freezing cucumbers for the first time, my summer cottages. I scored on a berner Only so far 2 sachets in rounds and froze. First, she spread cling film on the board and folded the kuglyashi in one row, then covered it again with film and so on layer by layer and into the freezer. A day later I put everything in packages. Very convenient, the cucumbers are not stuck together. Now I think another bag of cubes, just how, so that they are not glued together. Probably I will try the same principle as with rounds. if the piece is a monolith, then it will also thaw for a long time in the salad.
Admin
Quote: Olgushechka81
then thawing in the salad will also take a long time

Olya, cucumbers will not thaw for a long time.They are nevertheless fine cube cuts, they will quickly be saturated with marinade sauce along with other vegetables, they will warm up and become soft and tasty - I hope they will be tasty for you
Crochet
Quote: Scarecrow
In salads

Doesn't a salad with such cucumbers float?

They will thaw out and release all their water into the salad ...
Admin
Quote: Krosh

Doesn't a salad with such cucumbers float?

They will thaw out and release all their water into the salad ...

Compare the proportion of cucumbers and the number of other components - there are much less cucumbers in quantity.
And the dressings - are there not enough fillings in the salad? Lots of! That's all it will mix, dressing with cucumber juice

It will float, this is when you let the cucumbers thaw, that's when the complete nonsense turns out
Scarecrow
Quote: marina-asti

Scarecrow, yesterday I cut 2 kg, so I think that's enough for me
I never froze, I don't understand if I have enough for a test or not.

Enough, not much is needed. Add somewhere - that's it. It's easier for me, I convert all sorts of surpluses / leftovers into eggs (I feed the chickens). And where are you half a ton?)))
Admin
Made a salad like a show

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Scarecrow
Quote: Krosh

Doesn't a salad with such cucumbers float?

They will thaw out and release all their water into the salad ...

They just "moisten" the salad. I put a little dressing in salads (with too much mayonnaise I have no friends). Because of this, yogurt was often added (it is liquid and the salad is soaked well, and you don't need a lot of mayonnaise). In fish, for example, with canned fish, a little juice from fish from a can was usually added. Therefore, with these cucumbers, the salad turns out to be "wet", but not fluid (there are no puddles at the bottom).
Olgushechka81
That's it, today when I come home from work, if no one has attached the remaining cucumbers anywhere, I will freeze them with cubes. To try for Olivier.
Crochet
Tanechka, Tusechka, thank you very much, girls !!!

Frozen 2 kg. cubes, fortunately on Berner I chopped cubes, hands much longer), well, at least to me)) ...

I also need rings / round ones, I don't know why yet, but) ... but it is necessary !!! let them be !!!
Admin
Quote: Krosh
Frozen 2 kg. cubes

Now try to make a salad with them and evaluate "And I need it"?

Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)Vegetable salad with frozen cucumbers (from the freezer)
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Hope you need
Crochet
Quote: Admin
Now try to cook a salad with them

You think it's time, right ?!

I just put them in the freezer this morning ...

I will cook a salad without fail, I put my eyes on it in the morning !!!

Past such a recipe, you want), you will not pass by !!!
Admin
Quote: Krosh
You think it's time

How do you know that you can eat it?
Here, for breakfast and cook a little so that everyone at home will appreciate

And I'll cook something for days, the idea is already hovering
Crochet
Quote: Admin
I'll cook something else for days, the idea is already hovering

Oh), how interesting!

Restless you are ours !!!

I look forward to your next masterpiece Tanechka !!!

The main thing is that I am on time hurry up prepared, frozen cucumbers !!!
Admin
Quote: Krosh

I look forward to your next masterpiece Tanechka !!!

The main thing is that I am on time hurry up prepared, frozen cucumbers !!!

Wait, wait, prepare a notebook with a pen - you will write down

Today my cucumbers are canned, I have reached the last stage, I don't want anything
Mandraik Ludmila
Tatyana, I froze two bags: one cucumbers in cubes, the other in rings. The cucumbers were large, somewhat overgrown, so, just in case, I peeled the skin and then cut it. The cucumber season is still going on with us, I will still freeze it, oh one freestanding freezer is already not enough Thank you for the great idea
Admin

Luda, to your health!
Yes ... the manufacturers of the freezer model have not thought about it, they do not care about us at all It is advisable to have freezers of different configurations (like built-in furniture) in order to install them wherever I want and how I want in size, including above the door, hanging from the ceiling, or a drawer -lar in the sofa seat in the kitchen (and even in the room sofa, instead of bed linen)
Eh ... dreams, dreams
Mandraik Ludmila
Quote: Admin
above the door, hanging from the ceiling, or a chest in the sofa seat in the kitchen
Tanechka, here are my dreams you voice! And my parents had a wall-mounted refrigerator Sarma, it could be hung on the wall, and we had it hanging above the curbstone on a special. coasters, there was such a cool design, it broke 15 years ago ...
Well, I'm still in the city stuffing ice cream cucumbers into the freezer, it still doesn't fall out when the door is opened

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