How to freeze cucumbers

Frost is the most efficient way for billets for the winter. With it, the most preserved useful components in the products, and the place is saved on the shelves. You can freeze any product even cucumbers. But not all the mistress know how to do it right. So that the cucumbers are after defrosting remain fragrant and juicy, it is necessary to comply with technology on their billet.

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How to freeze cucumbers - selection and preparation

• Not all the fruits are suitable for freezing. Before processing, the cucumbers should be selected without visible damage to the skin and traces of rot. Also give preference to the product with a solid and elastic pulp.
• There is no definite variety of cucumbers for freezing, so you have to rely on experience in the conservation of vegetables. Also for the workpiece of the product will not be suitable for salad varieties that have a gentle flesh.
• Freckled vegetables needed for freezing. Rinse them thoroughly in running water. Large fruits are additionally supervised for 2 hours in cold water. Then be sure to dry the cucumbers, lay them on a paper or kitchen towel. Total drying time should be about an hour.
• Dry fruits need to get rid of frozen and inflorescences. At the same time, cut them off with the flesh. At this stage, it is important to try vegetables for the presence of bitterness in the pulp. If it is very felt, then put such cucumbers, otherwise they can spoil the dish after defrosting.
• Now you can proceed to cutting vegetables for storage depending on further use. It is possible to freeze cucumbers in several ways: in general, circles or in grated state, as well as without pulp (in the form of juice). Some hostesses are stored in the freezer and salty cucumbers, but their storage is much less vegetable in fresh form.

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How to freeze cucumbers in general

• This storage method is used by the hostesses very rarely. Since the fruit defrost will need more time. In addition, the skin has an unattractive species and smelting from the pulp.
• If you need cucumbers in the whole form to prepare a dish, then prepare them in the usual way (rinse, dry and cut both ends of the pulp).
• Skin remove completely remove. It is best to do this with a vegetable cutter. It will remove the thin layer of the peel and leave more pulp.
• Prepare a storage container. Save a place in the freezer can be helped by conventional plastic bags or packages for freezing with special clasps. Place the prepared fruits into the dry package, squeeze the excess air as stronger as possible and tie it or clause it.
• There is one advantage in frost vegetables in this form before other methods - a long storage period. But leave them in the freezer only until the next season.

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How to freeze cucumbers in the form of circles

• Vegetables, chopped with circles, are used in the preparation of salads, various sandwiches or easy to decorate dishes. Also, some hostesses freeze fruits for further use of cosmetic purposes.
• Preparation for freezing cucumbers with rings requires a certain technology. For this method, fruits should be well dried from extra moisture.
• Sharpen the pulp on the slices whose thickness should not exceed 3 mm. Otherwise, vegetables will be deficiently unevenly, which will spoil their appearance.
• When cutting on the cucumbers juice will appear. It must be carefully dried before freezing. It will take you no more than half an hour.
• Then shift the circles into one layer on the cutting board or baking sheet. Top to cover the vegetables with a food film, it will not give the pulp to apply in unauthorized smells during freezing. Put the cucumbers in the freezer until they are complete hardening.
• After that, get a frozen product and put in a package or container. Capacity Check back to the refrigerator. Such a freezing technology will not allow billets from vegetables to each other, as well as the ice will also form in the process of storage.

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How to freeze cucumbers in the form of cubes

• For some dishes, vegetables are needed, so they need to be stored in a sliced \u200b\u200bform. Preparatory work in this case are the same as in the previous methods of the workpiece.
• If you have young fruits, then the skin can not be removed. Large vegetables it is rigid, so it is cleaned. Cut the pulp with small cubes and decompose on the towel so that the juice is evaporated.
• Dried cucumber cucumbers crush on a leaf for baking and put in the freezer. After 10-12 hours, the package product is packaged and lower the air from them. Use small packages, so you will be conveniently defrosting vegetables for a specific portion.
• In the same way, you can freeze cucumbers sliced \u200b\u200bon a grater. But before releasing the vegetables in the package, you do not need to squeeze it strongly, otherwise you will take the pulp. It is best to store cucumbers in such a form in containers or boxes for freezing products.

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How to freeze cucumber juice

• The juice of vegetables is not used to prepare dishes, but is actively used for cosmetics. Many mistresses are frozen it, and then add to the mask or wipe the face with juice.

• First, wear the washed cucumbers on the grater, squeeze the juice and move it through the gauze. Then run it on the molds for ice and put on the day in the freezer.

• After the specified time, get frozen cubes from the form and put them in the package. So you will save space in the refrigerator.

In order for frozen cucumbers to save the maximum of useful components and their fragrance, it is necessary to comply with the technology of harvesting vegetables and adhere to the timing of their storage in the freezer.