Pickled garlic arrows give salads and dishes that are served as a second dish, a specific taste that many gourmets will like. They are perfectly combined with meat dishes, rice, pasta and potatoes.
For some dishes, you can use freshly cut chopped garlic arrows, but what to do in winter? The answer is very simple: you need to marinate them and then the use of arrows for the preparation of beautiful original dishes will not be tied only to a certain small period of time per year.
Before proceeding to pickle the shuttle of garlic, they need to be correctly assembled.
How to pickle garlic arrows - collection of garlic arrows
The basis of the success of the workpiece of the scooter of Chesnok is their timely collection. In any case, they need to be plucked to achieve a good harvest of garlic. Therefore, you need to safely collect them when they are most suitable for food.
Determining the readiness of a garlic shooter for collecting is quite simple. The best taste is possessed by arrows with dark green color. In addition, their inflorescences should not yet be formed, only at the initial stage of development.
If you do not comply with these simple collection conditions, then it will not work to achieve a first -class result. The arrows gathered too late in dishes will be very strict and fibrous, which is hardly like anyone.
Marinating garlic shooters
Preparation of garlic arrows for pickling
- The collected garlic arrows must be thoroughly washed under running water, since particles of the Earth may remain on them. This is most convenient to do in a colander under a stream of water, while mixing the contents of the dishes with your hand.
- Next, you need to cut the washed arrows for about 5-7 centimeters so that they are more convenient to eat. By the way, small buds from the shooters are not at all necessary to remove, since they are also suitable for food.
- Banks for blanks must first be sterilized. It is better to use small containers from 0.5 to 1 liter. Then they need to put 5-8 peas of fragrant pepper in them. If desired, you can also add a leaf of bay leaf. After the preparations described above, banks are tightly filled with garlic arrows, poured with boiling water to the very top and withstand for about 2-3 minutes. After exposure, the water from the cans is spilled into a pan for further preparation of the marinade.
Marinating garlic shooters
To prepare the marinade, you need to add the following ingredients (with a calculation of 1 liter):
- salt of large grinding - 2 tbsp. l.;
- sugar - 1 tbsp. l.;
- vinegar essence - 1 tsp.
Banks with garlic arrows prepared earlier are poured with boiled brine, covered with lids and sterilized:
- Banks of 0.5 liters - 3 minutes.
- Banks of 1 liter - 5 minutes.
At the end of sterilization of the lid, you need to roll up, and the jars should be turned down and covered with a blanket until final cooling.
On this, the whole process of preparing this beautiful snack is finished! It is very simple, so any housewife will be able to put it into life. Banks need to be stored in a cool place until they are used.
Be sure to watch a video with an interesting recipe for pickling a garlic shooter and useful tips for housewives.