Pickled cucumbers – the most demanded snack of any feast. In spite of the fact that there are dozens of recipes of winter preparations, not always cucumbers turn out crunchy and tasty. A problem one – unsuccessful recipes. We picked up 3 best options of salting checked by skilled hostesses.
How to choose cucumbers for salting
Not all cucumbers are suitable for winter preparations. The best gustatory qualities show grades:
- nonfeminine,
- pickling,
- зозуля,
- Parisian gherkin.
If it is competent to salt vegetables of these grades, excellent snack will turn out. It is important not to take only outgrown, withering or vegetables with a taste of bitterness. All other cucumbers completely are suitable for preparations.
Cucumbers cold-process
It is one of the most elementary options of preparation of pickled cucumbers. Snack perfectly costs all winter and differs in high gustatory qualities.
Ingredients on one 3-liter jar:
- 20-25 cucumbers, depending on the size;
- 3 garlic gloves;
- 5 leaves of currant;
- 5 leaves of cherry;
- 5 umbrellas of fennel;
- 4 leaves of horse-radish;
- 2 bay leaves;
- 5 peas of a black pepper;
- 3 tablespoons of salt.
Instruction of preparation
- Soak cucumbers in water.
- To carefully sterilize a 3-liter jar.
- Layers to lay out on a bottom banks currant, cherry leaves, a lavrushka and umbrellas of fennel.
- Clean garlic, cut cloves on equal halves, put in bank.
- There to send peppercorn and 2 leaves of horse-radish.
- Lay carefully washed out cucumbers in bank vertically, densely to each other. Closer to a capacity neck to put smaller vegetables better.
- Take a clean can, of 0.5 l. Pour cold water into it, without reaching a neck of 5-6 cm. Pour salt, mix.
- Fill in a brine in bank with cucumbers.
- From above to lay the remained horse-radish leaves.
- Add in bank still cold water that capacity became full.
- Cover to bank with cucumbers a cover, put in a plate. In such position of bank has to remain 3 days. Process of fermentation will go and a part of water will pour out.
- In 3 days it is necessary to add in bank of salty water, to roll up and send snack for storage to the cool place.
Salty cucumbers – a hot way
The cucumbers prepared according to this recipe shouldn't be removed on storage in a cellar or the fridge. They can stay all winter in the apartment.
Ingredients on 3 one-liter jars:
- 5 kg of cucumbers;
- 3 umbrellas of fennel;
- 3 leaves of horse-radish;
- 6 leaves of currant;
- 6 leaves of cherry;
- 3 garlic gloves;
- 15 goroshk of a black pepper;
- 3 peas of allspice;
- 6 pieces of a carnation;
- 3 tsps of salt;
- 6 tsps of granulated sugar;
- 2 tsps of table 9% of vinegar (on one bank).
Instruction of preparation
- Wash cucumbers. Fill in with water and leave them for 2 hours.
- Fill in fennel umbrellas, leaves of currant and cherry with boiled water. Well to be sterilized greens have to lie down in water not less than 2 minutes.
- Lower horse-radish leaves in boiled water for 30 seconds.
- Sterilize banks. Lay on their bottom garlic, pepper, a carnation, cherry, currant leaves, fennel, a leaf of horse-radish.
- Previously having cut off tips at cucumbers, to lay vegetables in banks.
- Put in each can 1 tsp of salt, 2 tsps of granulated sugar. Fill in with boiled water, cover with covers.
- On a bottom of a big pan to put a towel from natural fabric, to put on it cups. Fill in water that it was not above "coat hanger" of cans.
- There will be enough 10 minutes of boiling that contents of cans were sterilized again.
- Get banks from a pan, pour in them in acetic acid, roll up covers.
- Turn, wrap up banks with a cover. Leave a baking plate to them before full cooling.
Cucumbers, as barrel
Fragrant the cucumbers salted according to this recipe turn out crunchy. Nobody will guess that they are prepared in banks, but not in a flank.
Ingredients on one 3-liter jar:
- 5 kg of cucumbers;
- 5 garlic gloves;
- 1 leaf of horse-radish;
- 2 umbrellas of fennel;
- 2 leaves of currant;
- 2 leaves of cherry;
- pepper - to taste;
- 3 tablespoons of salt.
Instruction of preparation
- Wash out cucumbers, wet in water for 3 hours.
- Wash out greens, clean garlic.
- Put 3 tablespoons of salt in a mug, fill in with hot water, stir slowly before full dissolution.
- Sterilize to bank. To lay leaves of cherry, currant, horse-radish, fennel on its bottom.
- Cut off the ends at cucumbers, lay one layer of vegetables in bank.
- Put garlic and a ringlet of hot pepper on a layer of cucumbers.
- Place the remained cucumbers in bank, cover with a fennel umbrella.
- Fill in to bank with cold water on 2/3. Add to it the brine prepared in a circle. Add water completely to fill capacity.
- Cover to bank, put on a plate. Leave so future snack for 3 days. During this time the brine will a little dim.
- In 3 days to merge a brine, to boil it 2 minutes. Fill in in bank, roll up.
It is better to store cucumbers in the cool place. In 2 weeks they will be ready-to-serve.