Stuffed Cucumbers

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

The first cucumbers grow on warm beds. Plain, small, covered with appetizing pimples immediately ask for the table. And what to do with those who hid in dense foliage and managed to grow to sizes that they do not want to sit on the table or fit into a jar of fragrant brine? Having found such a cucumber, you should not rush to the compost heap with it. There are nicer ways to use large cucumbers

Ground meat

The word minced meat is translated from Latin not "finely chopped meat", but "stuffing". But it so happened historically that "minced meat" is more often associated with meat that was finely chopped or passed through a meat grinder. Moreover, the meat can be anything: beef, pork, chicken, turkey, bear, venison, or fish.

When there was more food, a person had a choice of what to eat. Various directions began to be created, excluding certain products from the diet. Many began to refuse to eat meat, guided by various arguments. To diversify the dishes, limited in the choice of products, they began to fill them not only with meat, but with mushrooms, vegetables, nuts, and dairy products.

In such a situation, the word "minced meat" has become closer to its original meaning, which sounds like "stuffing".

What is suitable for minced meat

• Suitable for traditional minced meat

meat any living creature that is successfully absorbed by the stomach and is not prohibited from being eaten by the religion professed by the eater.

• For people living by the sea, river, lake, pond, it is more convenient to cook minced meat from

fish, meat

crabs and other aquatic life, as well as from

fish roe

• Lovers of dairy products use as a filling

cottage cheese or

cheese

• Minced meat can be made from different

croup, or dilute other types of minced meat with cereals.

• Vegetarians make minced meat from

vegetables, mushrooms, nuts … And meat-eaters like to dilute minced meat with vegetables, guided by taste or financial considerations.

The versatility of cucumbers

The fact that cucumber is mainly composed of water makes it a versatile food that can be combined with any other food. This is why the cucumber can be stuffed with any other product.

Methods for preparing stuffed cucumbers

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Fresh cucumbers. Cucumbers, enriched with filling, can be eaten fresh without being cooked. Not too large cucumbers are suitable for this. The sooner a cucumber plucked from the garden is served to the table, the more nutrients it will give to the body.

We wash the plucked cucumber with running water, wipe it with a clean towel, cut it crosswise into two parts and scrape out the seed center. Instead of seeds, put the prepared filling in the cucumber. It can be boiled or lightly salted fish, cut into small pieces and seasoned with black pepper, mayonnaise (for whom it is not contraindicated). Sprinkle with finely chopped herbs on top and serve.

If you don't want to mess with fish, you can replace it with crab sticks. You can add boiled rice, canned sweet corn to chopped crab sticks. The ratio of ingredients depends on the taste of the eaters.

Lovers of dairy products will come in handy with shavings of cheese or cottage cheese seasoned with garlic, mayonnaise or sour cream, herbs and ground pepper.

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Stewed or baked cucumbers. When hot-processed cucumbers with filling, the dishes will turn out to be more satisfying, since minced meat is used here. With a limited amount of meat, it can be mixed with lightly boiled rice, buckwheat or other favorite cereals. Instead of cereals, there can be chopped vegetables.

For hot dishes, cucumbers are chosen larger. They are not cut in half, but freed from the seed center whole by cutting off the tips of the cucumber. The process is the same as for preparing stuffed zucchini or bell peppers.

Such cucumbers can be baked in the oven or stewed in a small amount of meat broth, or even plain drinking salted water.