During a season of cucumbers of the hostess seek to prepare cucumbers for the future: they are pickled, salted, preserved, frozen. Such cucumbers prepared in house conditions are always in demand as on weekdays, and on holidays. There is a lot of recipes of pickling of this vegetable, but are most popular - it is a cucumber pickles without sterilization.
The recipe of a cucumber pickles without sterilization
The cucumbers pickled in such a way are good not only as snack on a table. They are good also in first courses. So, for example, from them remarkable additive to rassolniks and solyankas turns out. Cucumbers without sterilization turn out not only tasty, but also fragrant, crunchy. This recipe is based on the principle of double filling of fruits.
What needs to be prepared for pickling of cucumbers without sterilization on one bank with a capacity of 1.5 liters
- Cucumbers about 900 g (depends on the size of fruits)
For a brine it is required
- 750 ml of water
- 55 g of granulated sugar
- 40 g of salt
- 30 ml of 9% of vinegar
Set for aroma
- two garlic gloves
- small leaf of horse-radish, 2-3 leaves of currant, fennel umbrella (your favourite fragrant leaves)
- 2 bay leaves
Pickling stages
- In advance, hour for 3 before pickling of cucumbers, they should be killed cold water. It is necessary to fill in with water in order that cucumbers with a taste of bitterness would lose it and became more elastic, having added themselves moisture.
- It is obligatory to wash banks well detergent, and better baking soda and to sterilize. The good way is to lay them in a hot oven a neck down on a lattice and to allow to stand there at a temperature of 150-170C minutes of 20. Take, allow to cool down. It is possible to stack in them fragrant structure from leaves of currant, horse-radish, laurels, a fennel umbrella. It is possible to pick up the structure of leaves and herbs. Garlic if large to cut on pieces or plates. To put a part of leaves and garlic on a bottom banks.
- Cucumbers it is better to take small. It is desirable to cut large fruits on halves. Lay cucumbers, combining them with the remains of leaflets.
- Meanwhile on a plate water which should fill in the prepared cucumbers began to boil. Cover to bank with contents a cover which is obligatory for sterilizing too. Leave the cucumbers which are filled in with boiled water for about 15-20 minutes. It is possible to cover with a napkin (towel).
- After the necessary time to drain water about banks in a pan. Add salt, sugar and vinegar (vinegar can be added before filling). Allow structure to begin to boil. To carefully fill in cucumbers with marinade. It is good to screw up a cover banks. Check for tightness. Turn to bank down a neck. It is good "wrap up". Leave before full cooling. Then to remove on storage. It is better if it is the cool place.
Useful tips to the recipe
Additional councils: at cucumbers when pickling it is possible not to cut off tips. Stack in bank as it is possible more densely. Choose fresh cucumbers identical by the size that they were evenly distributed on all capacity. It is possible to add a vodka spoon to marinade. It is necessary in order that cucumbers were better stored and didn't blow up - it is additional preservative. If there is desire, then it is possible to add a piece of hot pepper that cucumbers were ostrenky subsequently to cucumbers.