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there still does not fall out when the door is opened

A sore question for many
Olka44
Tanya, thanks for the idea you have already confirmed.
Yesterday I "chopped" 2kg into cubes. Sometimes you came across bitter ones ... could we have to throw them back so as not to spoil the product in salads?
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Olya, to your health!
I can't say anything about the bitter ones, I never froze them. I don't even know if the bitterness will remain after defrosting, or not
You can check it yourself - add them to the salad now, and it will immediately become clear
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I prepared a quick bite salad for porridge, from fresh vegetables, with the addition of frozen cucumbers.
Cut into thin strips of spaghetti fresh carrots, fresh apple.
Cucumbers from my freezer. They were a little icy in the bag, so I put a handful of cucumbers in a bowl, quickly rinsed them under warm water to wash off the icing, wrung them out with my hand, then folded them in a towel and removed the liquid from them.
I put carrots, an apple, cucumbers, sliced ​​fresh herbs, a drop of aromatic salt, a teaspoon of milk thistle oil in a salad bowl, 2-3 tbsp. l. homemade yogurt.

Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)

And the express salad is ready! A great addition to porridge!

Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)

Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)

Bon appetit, everyone!

Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)Rice-millet porridge with multi-grain flakes (Multicooker Redmond RMC-01)
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Mandraik Ludmila
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Cucumbers from my freezer. They were a little icy in the bag, so I put a handful of cucumbers in a bowl, quickly rinsed them under warm water to wash off the icing, wrung them out with my hand, then folded them in a towel and removed the liquid from them.
Tanechka, all D. once pour the cut cucumbers with cold, acidified lemon, water, for a few seconds and immediately drain the water, now I defrost the berries like this, they do not sour and at the same time defrost immediately. This is advice from Lazerson, I saw it on the Food channel.
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Luda, Thank you!
Didn't know about this trick I missed Lazerson, I usually follow his thoughts

Usually I don't defrost fruits and vegetables before cooking ... but here the cucumbers are covered with snow, which means there will be a lot of water in the salad
Mandraik Ludmila
Tanechka, I am lucky with Lazerson, I once even phoned him on the radio with culinary questions, but that was 15 years ago. We do not have our own channel "Food", just as we do not have a TV set in the village at all, but while the neighbor, in her absence, was heating the stove, so I watched this channel, so I took it
Innochek
As soon as I saw it. : girl_cleanglasses: I'm going to make okroshka with frozen cucumbers and radishes,: yes: can you tell them to defrost them in okroshka right away, or in acidified water first?
Scarecrow
Innochek,

Immediately in okroshka, definitely, do not waste time and energy on defrosting.

Firstly, there is a large mass of products and a liquid that will thaw them immediately, and, secondly, the juice from them in okroshka will not be at all superfluous. Why "flush" them? I constantly make okroshka and salads with frozen cucumbers and I don't really understand why rinse them in water)). All the juice from them into the salad will go away, moisten, make it juicy. All that "froze" on them is their own liquid from a cucumber, juice, because they are tightly closed and there is nowhere for moisture to come from outside. Of course, there are salads in which everything can "float", but the bulk of "heavy" salads (canned fish, Olivier, tenderness, etc.) are dry and usually require a fair amount of dressing for juiciness. such a cucumber pretty much solves the problem, wetting the ingredients and not requiring a lot of mayonnaise / sour cream / yogurt ...
Innochek
Thank you so much for your reply
Admin
Quote: Scarecrow
Why "flush" them?

And what is there to understand something?
While the cucumbers were just laid in packages, well behaved. And then, especially when she began to defrost the freezer, they picked up the ice. The cucumbers themselves are very neat as fresh, but there is a lot of snow on them. I have an ordinary freezer, not a chest-chest. And just in general, I noticed that cucumbers accumulate snow over time, no matter how much they freeze, this happens

And for the salad I needed exactly pieces of cucumbers, for thin straws made of apples and carrots - where liquid is not needed at all. This is not potato with eggs, where the liquid from the cucumbers is absorbed into the food at once.
I had to arrange manipulations - but the taste and crunch of cucumbers did not suffer. Since their the rinse was brief, and immediately in a towel.

I don't cook anything with mayonnaise, I don't have it. Only a very small amount of vegetable oil in salads, especially olive, walnut, milk thistle, flax And I’ll use my yogurt
Yuliya K
TatyanaThanks a lot for the idea of ​​freezing cucumbers! I saw this Temka in time in August, froze both "round" and "fingers" for testing.
We love salads with funchose and ve-cha, so I used my fingers to cut it for these purposes, such as Fresh cucumbers (for laying in the freezer)
Very comfortably! Since the cucumbers in these dishes are cooked, no one even guessed that they were from the freezer!
Now this will be my lifesaver! I didn't even think about freezing cucumbers before!
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Julia, to your health! Very comfortably! Treat yourself a little in spring and summer, with the smell
Natusichka
Tanya, girls! I did not see this topic last year, but I did it purely intuitively!
I came to share my impression of freezing cucumbers.
Last summer I decided to try freezing cucumbers for the winter.
At the height of the season, I took fragrant, ground cucumbers, peeled them, chopped them into small pieces, put them in bags with a fastener, made them flat and put them in a freezer chest like this.

Somehow in the winter they didn’t reach their hands ... More precisely, I was sure it would be bad, so I didn’t make salads with them ... but in vain! Someone wrote that it turns out badly and should not be done.

Today at lunchtime we made beetroot soup (like okroshka) and I didn't want to add cucumbers, because I buy only seasonal vegetables and fruits. I remembered about my frozen cucumbers. I pulled them out, thawed them a little in the microwave (it's good that I did not make them in a thick layer), I thought that there would be chvyaka badly. But it turned out to be so cool! And the aroma of fresh cucumbers and crunch!
The husband is delighted!
And in this topic I learned a lot for myself!

Thank you very much!!!

We need to make these this year too!
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Natusichka, to your health!
Yes, in vain I forgot about the cucumbers - I liked it too
mamusi
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We need to make these this year too!
+1
And I will!
(I didn't do it this year ~ I read Temko late)))
This summer is a must!
Olgushechka81
And I also liked to cook with frozen cucumbers. I also made Olivier crab. It turned out very tasty. The only thing is that my freezer turned off 2 times (once the cord was touched, and the second time the light was turned off for half a day), in this regard, my cucumbers froze and turned into a lump, I had to rinse them with hot water once, the taste had no effect.
Olekma
Girls, and what varieties of cucumbers are better to freeze salad, such as Zozuli, or gherkins? Or after freezing there is no difference and freezing everything?
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According to my observations, it is better to freeze strong gherkins. They have a strong structure and flesh, little liquid, and thus cucumbers keep their shape well in the salad, remain strong.

Salad large cucumbers are better for salad, very good

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Olekma
Thank you Tanya, I will freeze the little cucumbers.
kartinka
I don't know if my experience will be useful to anyone. I dry the cucumbers a little with a towel (squeeze out the excess moisture), sometimes you need to dry them a little (in the shade, when it's hot, or on a radiator or dryer, depending on the season and the cucumbers themselves.To dry it up, otherwise nothing will be left of them.In the season, strong small cucumbers can be dried for freezing in a cube, in my opinion, better than simple slicing
Olekma
Yesterday I made a salad of frozen cucumbers for the first time. Everything worked out great! Added immediately frozen to the salad.
Natusichka
I made a salad, cucumbers are needed there. She took them out of the freezer and decided to defrost them so that there was no moisture. I put the cucumbers in a colander, after a while the glass liquid, the cucumbers were not particularly affected!
So, I froze this cucumber juice in molds and now use it as a face wipe after washing. So cool!
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So, I froze this cucumber juice in molds and now use it as a face wipe after washing. So cool!

Natashawhat a cool idea, super - bookmark
Natusichka
Yes, try it, you will be very satisfied!
Annutka
Last year I froze cucumbers for a salad for the first time and tried it on New Year's Eve. Super! I liked it very much! I will do this every year.
toffee
And I did not like freezing cucumbers either in circles, or cubes, or cubes. Well, not my final consistency. They are flabby.

But I really liked the frozen cucumbers grated on a coarse grater. In salads and sauces, the aroma and freshness of cucumber give, but the feeling that you are eating just a frozen cucumber is not.

I rub the cucumbers and put the mixture in ice molds. The juice goes there too. As soon as they slow down, I put the cubes in a plastic bag, take out the air to the maximum and put them in the freezer.
In winter, I take out as many cubes as needed, without defrosting the crumbs into salads or sauces. Delicious!
Scarecrow
toffee,

I do exactly the same. But small cubes. I can't ice it anymore. Also, without defrosting in salads or okroshka (yes, we eat okroshka in winter).
Luna Nord
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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".
Tanyusha, well then, in the finished product (salad, for example), will they give away their juice and will not look like ice?
Annutka
Quote: Luna Nord

Tanyusha, well then, in the finished product (salad, for example), will they give away their juice and will not look like ice?

Cucumber cubes retain their shape when placed frozen in a salad.
Luna Nord
Quote: Scarecrow
(yes, we eat okroshka in winter).
We, too, go, all year round !!!!




Quote: Annutka
Cucumber cubes retain their shape when placed frozen in a salad.
Anna, I understood this after reading the reviews, I just don't understand how this can be? If they defrost in a salad, should the juice still go somewhere? And since the juice is gone, then the cucumber should also become a rag? in short, guess what, you need to try to freeze and determine for yourself whether I need it or not.
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If the salad is not left for a long time, not stored in a saucepan (as many do), then there will not be a lot of liquid, and what is absorbed slightly by potatoes, for example.

Girls, well, freeze one tiny cucumber with cubes, and make an Olivier salad out of it - and you will understand "but I need it"?
Someone likes it, some don't - a matter of taste

I use such cucumbers for smoothies with other vegetables, summer cucumbers in smoothies taste better than winter greenhouses.And to them I can add greens and green onions from the freezer
Annutka
Ludmila, yes, you better try. To each his own
kartinka
Girls, cucumbers are different - I take strong, not watery ones for freezing, if you dry them a little more - and shock freeze and then immediately into the salad - it will work out great, try on a small portion, you can try different cucumbers - to feel the difference, and with withering - that's how I make cucumbers and zucchini - they remain in cubes in the stew and take up little space
Scarecrow
Quote: Luna Nord

Tanyusha, well then, in the finished product (salad, for example), will they give away their juice and will not look like ice?

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.

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