Lightly salted crispy cucumber recipe: how to cook quickly at home

Lightly salted crispy cucumbers are cooked quickly, remarkable for taste and have an indescribable fragrance. Each housewife has her own recipe, how to cook lightly salted crispy cucumbers. Today we will tell you our recipe for this amazing snack.

It is very important to choose the right cucumber for pickling. Cucumbers must be fresh, not stale, taut.

Ingredients

Cucumbers, dill umbrellas, horseradish leaves, garlic, chili, fragrant pepper.

For brine: water - 1 liter, salt - 2 tablespoons, a teaspoon of sugar.

Preparation of

Cucumbers and cut off their "tails" from both sides. Cucumbers pour cold water and leave for two hours.

In the jar we put the horseradish and umbrella dill, cleaned cloves of garlic to the bottom. Pepper chili into small pieces. Add it carefully so that the cucumbers do not come out too sharp. Then we lay cucumbers, on top again horseradish leaves and dill umbrellas.

In order to prepare lightly salted cucumbers, you need to prepare brine. To do this, add salt and sugar to the boiling water. We give a little paw that the salt and sugar are dissolved. Fill the boiling pickle with cucumbers. Cover the lid and leave for a day.

As you can see, the recipe is very simple. In addition to horseradish leaves in lightly salted cucumbers, you can add leaves of cherry, black currant or oak. They will add a special flavor to cucumbers.

Herbs for pickling cucumbers use a wide variety. Incredibly fragrant cucumbers, if you add a sprig of tarragon. The leaves of the walnut retain the green color of the cucumbers. You can make cucumbers more sharp by adding chili peppers more.

Take lightly salted cucumbers in the fridge, otherwise the brine may become moldy. To preserve the "low salinity" of cucumbers, pour out the brine and dilute with boiled water.

Cucumbers in cold brine

Composition:

Laurel leaf - 2-3 pcs.

Black pepper - 4-6 pieces. Cherry leaves - 2-3 pcs.

Horseradish - 1 leaf or 30 g.

Dill - 1 umbrella with seeds.

Garlic - 2-3 cloves.

Rye or black bread.

Salt - 1 tbsp.l.(with a slide).Leaves of black currant - 3-4 pcs.

Water.

Preparation: The quantity of the above ingredients is calculated for 1 liter jar. First carefully my cucumbers and cut off all the tips, put it in a prepared can. Immediately put salt in the jar( 1 tablespoon with a slide), top all spices and pour cold water. It is allowed to take water directly from the tap.

Put a half of rye or black bread in a jar and close it with a lid( you can simply cover with gauze or any other clean cloth).It is advisable to cover the jar with a lid, so that the cucumbers will soon be salted.

Put the jar in a saucepan or any deep bowl and leave it in a warm place for 1 day. Be sure to use the bowl, because during the fermentation of cucumbers brine will flow.

For cold brine, you can take and cooled boiled water. If you use such a small trick, it becomes possible several times to reduce the time of pickling. About a day later the delicious crispy light-salted cucumbers are ready and they can be served to the table.

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