Canned watermelons without sterilization: the most popular billet recipes, storage features * Recipes

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You can’t imagine summer without juicy and tasty watermelons. And when winter comes, the time comes for canned sweet watermelons. From can be prepared at home and even without the use of sterilization. More on this later in the article.

Selection and preparation of ingredients

To choose a good watermelon for preservation, you need to stay on a small berry, which will be slightly immature and with an intact thin crust. It is better to choose a berry weighing 2 kg.

Watermelon with cracks, dents, dark spots should not be preserved - the taste of the workpiece will be hopelessly spoiled, even if the smallest piece of such a berry falls into a jar.

Important! Must take for canning watermelon with pulp not red, but color pink. Also, the berry with sugar is not good friable pulp in the middle of the fetus. If you can preserve a large and ripe watermelon, the final result will be a jelly consistency.

To preserve watermelons, you must first thoroughly wash them and wipe them dry. It should be washed very well, since sterilization of the finished spins will not be carried out. However, many housewives sterilize empty cans before putting food into them - this takes less time and effort, and also improves the quality and reliability of conservation.

Then the berries need to be cut: cut off the upper and lower parts, cut the fruit in half, and then in half rings, after which each resulting piece is cut into 3-4 more pieces so that they freely pass through the throat of the jar.

Preserves of canned watermelon without sterilization for the winter

Preservation of striped berries, like many other products, can be done in two ways: with or without sterilization. Consider a few recipes for watermelon pieces that do not need to be sterilized. For better preservation, vinegar or citric acid is added to the marinade, and if none of these components are present in the recipe, aspirin must be added.

Classic recipe without sterilization

1 can of 3 l 60 min.

Energy value per 100 g:

The jar is well washed, dried, sterilized.
Chop watermelon. Place each piece in a container without tamping so as not to damage the delicate pulp.
Pour sugar and salt, add lemon without zest and pits. Lemon juice will give a pleasant sourness.
Pour boiling water with vinegar into a jar and roll it tightly with a lid.
Turn the container over and wrap it in a blanket. When it cools down, place it in the refrigerator, basement or any cool place.
Who loves piquancy and adds red pepper to the workpiece - you need to lay it with a whole pod on the bottom of the can.

Important! When adding red pepper, you do not need to cut it. If it is cut into pieces, then the appetizer will turn out not spicy, but very burning.

With aspirin

1 can of 3 l 50 min.

acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin)
1 tab.

Energy value per 100 g:

Cut the watermelon into slices, cut the peel.
Put the pieces in a jar and pour boiling water. Wait 10 minutes, then drain the liquid into a container for boiling.
Add salt, sugar and vinegar to the water. Put on the stove and wait for the boil.
Knead the aspirin and add to the boiled marinade.
Pour the fruit with marinade and roll the lid.
Turn the container over and wrap it in a blanket. When completely cooled, you can put the workpiece in a cool place.

Video recipe

There is a berry prepared according to this recipe, best on an empty stomach. In addition, a person who has kidney stones must consume canned watermelons for 6 days and eat 1.5–2 kg of berries on an empty stomach every morning. This product will help remove stones and sand from the kidneys.

Did you know? Watermelon peel is also eaten. From it you can cook jam or jam, or pickle. In addition, you can eat the fried seeds of this summer berry.

With grape

1 can of 3 l60 min.

currant leaves
6 pcs
black pepper peas
6 pcs
allspice peas
6 pcs

Energy value per 100 g:

Prepare a container for preservation.
Wash the grapes and separate the berries from the bunches.
Rinse all leaves and leave to drain water from them.
Cut the watermelon into pieces and remove the seeds.
At the bottom of the can, put cloves, black and allspice, part of the cherry, apricot and currant leaves.
Fill the container with watermelon, grapes and the rest of the leaves.
Boil water, pour boiling water over the products and leave to infuse for 15 minutes.
After this, pour water into a container for boiling, add sugar and salt to it, boil. Then pour vinegar.
Pour the berries with hot marinade and roll the lid.
Turn the container over and wrap it in a warm blanket. After complete cooling, move the pickled watermelon to the basement or any cold place.

Instead of grapes, melon, apple, pear or even cucumber fit well into this recipe.

Did you know? In 1981, a Japanese breeder came up with a way to grow square watermelons to make them easier to transport and store. To do this, the fruit that has begun to ripen is simply placed in a cubic container, and, ripening, it takes its shape.

With herbs

1 can of 3 liters 55 min.

peppercorns peas
2-3 pcs.
mustard seeds
1/3 tsp
dill, bay leaf, parsley
1 tbsp. l

Energy value per 100 g:

Prepare a jar.
Cut the watermelon pulp into slices, remove the seeds.
Peel and chop the garlic.
Pour mustard seeds, pepper with dill, bay leaf, parsley and horseradish into the jar.
Put the sliced berry, pour boiling water and leave for 5 minutes.
Then pour water into the bucket, boil again.
Add garlic, salt and sugar to the jar.
Pour boiling water over the berry again, roll up the jar with a lid.
Wrap preservation to cool completely, and then move to a cool place.

According to this recipe, the striped berry is spicy and piquant. This appetizer is served as a side dish for the main dishes.

Storage Features

Watermelon preservation very well retains its taste in wooden barrels, but now barrels are almost never used, and glass jars are widely used instead. Canned berry in a glass container can be stored for 1 year. A cellar or refrigerator is usually used to preserve such selections. - and especially if there is vinegar in the recipe, it is only necessary to store the blanks there!

Using the described recipes, you can prepare a summer treat for the future and preserve the useful taste of a watermelon for a long time in order to enjoy this tasty and healthy berry throughout the winter.

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