Strange thing. Cucumbers are on sale all year round, and lightly salted - so you want in the summer. To small, it is advisable to straight from the garden to crunch. So tasty!
Of course, they can be bought at the store. But do they compare to taste with home. Moreover, cooking them is not at all difficult. And even the most inexperienced housewife will delight their households when they easily master the process of making salted cucumbers according to the fastest recipes.
A quick recipe for lightly salted cucumbers - general principles
Cucumbers
Young small cucumbers will be most suitable, even non-standard ones will do. Large cucumbers are used both whole and cut. Of course, when picking cucumbers for pickling it is necessary to exclude yellowed, bitter and very dark.
The best cucumbers are just removed from the garden.
It is advisable to select even cucumbers, approximately equal in size. They will salted evenly.
Water
A prerequisite in each quick recipe for lightly salted cucumbers is to pre-soak them in water, always in cold. And in most recipes, brine is used. And for this, water is also needed. The ideal option is a well or spring. If not, you can buy water at the store. In extreme cases, you can use tap water, with the exception of chlorinated.
Dishes
Most often, in quick recipes of light-salted cucumbers, glass jars, plastic containers, pans, even plastic bags are used.
The pan is best used enameled. First of all, both the pot and the jar should be doused with boiling water. And only after that lay spices.
Herbs and spices
A rare quick recipe for lightly salted cucumbers dispenses with basic seasonings, garlic and dill. Moreover, dill is used by both umbrellas and branches. And cherries, currants and oak (leaves and branches), horseradish (root and leaves) will make cucumbers strong and crunchy. A bouquet of spices can be replenished with parsley, basil, mint. The hostess may not limit herself to the spices offered in the recipes, but use those that are at her disposal, those that she loves. Moreover, she can change their number to her own taste.
Salt
The most suitable for low salinity is rock salt. In no case is it recommended to use iodized salt, as well as small. Salt of 1-2 tablespoons will be required per liter of water for brine.
Salted Cucumbers "It Can't Be Easier"
Ingredients:
about two kg of cucumbers (preferably small),
several branches of dill,
5-6 large cloves of garlic,
salt,
litere of water.
Cooking method:
Cucumbers are already washed and soaked in cold water. The first thing to cut the ends
Dill is divided in half, it can be used as whole branches, or branches can be cut into 2-3 parts, only stems can be used.
Crush the garlic.
Half the dill and garlic lay in a jar, previously scalded with boiling water.
Put down the cucumbers.
On top of the cucumbers the remaining half of the dill.
Boil the salted brine and pour into a jar boiling.
Leave to cool, and until the lid cools down, close tightly. Close before putting the jar in the refrigerator.
In the evening, pickled cucumbers were salted in the morning. Enjoy your meal!
Salted cucumbers "Urgent"
This is an express version of the previous recipe. For their preparation, it is better to use large cucumbers and a pan with a volume of 1 liter or a plastic container.
Ingredients:
long greenhouse cucumber or 2-3 large cucumbers,
4-5 cloves of garlic,
several branches of dill,
a pinch of black pepper,
salt.
Cooking method:
Cucumber (or cucumbers) cut into circles and put in a saucepan (or container).
Finely chop the garlic and dill.
Stir them with salt and add to the cucumbers.
Close the container with a lid. Shake several times.
Now add the ground black pepper to the cucumbers, just a little bit.
Close the lid again and shake it once.
Wait just half an hour and serve cucumbers on the table as a snack.
Enjoy your meal!
Salted cucumbers "Rostov kids"
Ingredients:
3 kg of small cucumbers,
several branches of dill,
a few sheets of cherries and black currants,
a few peas of black pepper,
one or two bay leaves
a few cloves of garlic
salt,
two liters of water.
Cooking method:
For washed and soaked cucumbers, trim the tips.
Rinse the leaves of currant and cherry and dill in cold water.
Make cuts on the cloves of garlic, but you can just cut into pieces.
Put half the leaves, dill and garlic on the bottom of a three-liter jar.
Lay out the cucumbers.
On top of cucumbers is another layer of spices.
Boil water with salt, adding bay leaf and peppercorns there, cool slightly and pour hot into a jar.
Until the brine cools down, do not close the lid tightly and do not put in the refrigerator.
The next morning you can eat cucumbers.
Enjoy your meal!
Salted cucumbers "Rostov Sweet"
Ingredients:
a kilogram of small cucumbers,
several branches of dill,
a few sheets of cherries and black currants,
a few peas of black pepper,
one or two bay leaves,
a few cloves of garlic
salt,
sugar,
litere of water.
Cooking method:
For washed and soaked cucumbers, trim the tips.
Rinse the leaves of currant and cherry and dill in cold water.
Make cuts on the cloves of garlic, but you can just cut into pieces.
Put half the leaves, dill and garlic on the bottom of a liter jar.
Lay out the cucumbers.
On top of cucumbers is another layer of spices.
Boil water with salt (1 tablespoon) and sugar (2 tablespoons), add bay leaf and peppercorns there, cool slightly and pour hot into a jar.
Until the brine cools down, do not close the lid tightly and do not put in the refrigerator.
The next morning you can eat cucumbers.
Enjoy your meal!
Salted cucumbers "Skorospelka"
Ingredients:
3 kg medium-sized cucumbers,
several branches of dill,
blackcurrant and horseradish leaves,
a few cloves of garlic,
salt,
2.5 liters of water.
Cooking method:
The cucumbers are already washed and soaked. It remains to trim them from the ends.
Rinse the branches of dill, leaves of black currant and horseradish.
Cut larger garlic.
Pour boiling water over the pot and lay half the spices on the bottom.
Then gently lay the cucumbers on the spices, preferably vertically.
Spread the rest of the spices on top of the cucumbers.
Proceed further depending on how quickly you expect the result:
Stir salt in cold boiled water and pour cucumbers.
Boil water with salt and pour cucumbers in hot form.
Cover the pan with a napkin, and put a flat plate on top without any oppression.
In the first case, the cucumbers will be ready in two or three days.
In the second - the sample can be removed after 8 hours.
Enjoy your meal!
Salted cucumbers "Kids-Yummy"
Ingredients:
two kilograms of small cucumbers,
dill umbrellas
apple tree leaves
horseradish leaf, but you can use the root,
cloves of garlic
salt,
two liters of water.
Cooking method:
At the previously washed and soaked small cucumbers, trim the ends, and those that are larger can be additionally pierced with a knife in the middle.
Rinse apple and currant leaves, dill and horseradish leaf as well. If we use horseradish root, finely chop it.
Incise the cloves of garlic.
Pour boiling water over the jar and lay apple and currant leaves, horseradish, finely chopped, or its leaves, chopped cloves of garlic and half dill at the bottom.
Put cucumbers on a layer of spices.
Boil the salted brine and pour hot into the jar.
On top of the cucumbers lay the remains of dill.
Cover the jar and set aside for a while to cool
Later, a jar of cucumbers can be sent to the refrigerator.
The next morning, serve.
Enjoy your meal!
Salted cucumbers "Fortresses"
Ingredients:
3 kg of cucumbers,
several branches of dill,
blackcurrant leaves,
horseradish root
oak leaves
a few cloves of garlic
black pepper peas,
salt,
2.5 liters of water.
Cooking method:
At the previously washed and soaked cucumbers, cut off the tips.
Rinse the leaves of currant and dill in cold water.
Do the same with the oak leaves.
Choose a saucepan of a suitable size, but you can use a jar, even a deep bowl, pour over boiling water.
At the bottom, you can lay out both oak leaves and whole branches.
To them add half the leaves of currant and part of the dill.
Finely chop the horseradish root, crush the garlic and send it all there.
Now fold the cucumbers, preferably vertically (here it is very important that they be about the same size).
Add salt and pepper to the boiled water, let cool slightly and pour hot into the pan.
Put the rest of spices on top of the cucumbers.
Cover and clean in a cold place.
After 8-9 hours, the cucumbers are ready.
You can also use cold brine mixed with salt in cold boiling water. In this case, peppercorns should be crushed and tossed into a saucepan along with other spices. And the readiness of cucumbers will have to wait a couple of days.
Enjoy your meal!
Quick Salted Cucumber Recipes: Useful Tips and Tricks from My Grandmother
• Before pickling, cucumbers must be washed thoroughly and then placed in water for some time. The colder the water, the better. This is a prerequisite.
• Grandma used exclusively well water. If you take water from the tap, the same recipe will give a completely different, less successful, result. By the way, to improve the quality of water, you can lower a silver spoon into it.
• The best taste for small cucumbers with pimples. They are sweet and dense, which means they will be crispy.
• As a rule, cucumbers cut off the skin at the ends. Grandmother said that cutting the end and trying on the tongue is the surest way to recognize a bitter cucumber. But you can just pierce with a knife or fork, if they are used whole.
• When laying cucumbers in dishes during salting, it is undesirable to tamp them.
• If it is necessary to cook a large number of lightly salted cucumbers, it is better to lay them in a bowl in several layers, separating them with spices.
• If according to a quick recipe for lightly salted cucumbers, cucumbers are poured with cold brine, it takes 2-3 days to cook, if it’s hot, 8 hours is enough.
• Cucumbers covered in hot brine must first be cooled and then put in the cold. If using a glass jar, it must be tightly closed with a lid only before being sent to the refrigerator. It is in the refrigerator that they will remain salted longer.
Preparing salted cucumbers for any housewife will not be difficult. Choose any recipe and very soon homemade will be happy to crunch at the table with the most delicious light-salted cucumbers in the world.
