Pickled cucumbers are a fragrant snack which enjoys wide popularity in winter time. Cook salads, caviar, rassolniks from pickles, add them to some meat dishes. They are perfectly combined with boiled potato and mashed potatoes.
Pickled cucumbers with citric acid
Crunchy cucumbers turn out when salting them with citric acid. For this way it will be required to you:
- 2 kg of cucumbers; - 75 g of salt;
- 75 g of sugar; - 10 g of citric acid; - 5 garlic gloves; - 5 peas of a black pepper; - currant leaves; - fennel umbrellas; - horse-radish leaves;
- 1.5 l of water. Wash up cucumbers, scald them boiled water and ship in ice water. Lay greens, garlic and peas of pepper on banks, from above densely spread out cucumbers. From salt, sugar, citric acid and water prepare a brine, bring it to the boil. Fill in with the boiling brine cucumbers in banks, insist 5 minutes and merge in a pan. Now once again bring a brine to the boil, again fill in with it contents of cans for 5 minutes. Once again boil the merged brine, pour on banks and at once roll up them metal covers.
Pickled cucumbers with mustard
When salting with mustard the cucumbers keep color and develop a pungent flavor. To prepare them in such a way, the following ingredients will be necessary for you: - 3 garlic gloves; - 3 leaves of cherry; - 3 leaves of blackcurrant; - 1 leaf of horse-radish; - 1 umbrella of fennel; - 5 peas of a black pepper; - 1 tsps of mustard; - 3 tablespoons of salt; - cucumbers. Lay leaves of cherry and currant, small cut leaf of horse-radish, an umbrella of fennel and garlic glove on a bottom of a 3-liter jar. Now place in it well washed up cucumbers, trying as it is possible to press more densely them to each other. In the middle of banks and place the remained garlic and peas of a black pepper a little above. In liter of warm water dissolve salt and fill in with this brine contents banks. Pour dry mustard in bank and cover. In a week when on cucumbers there is a deposit, and liquid will become more transparent, stir up capacity and merge a brine. Fill in cucumbers with a new portion of boiled cool water, once again shake and again merge. This procedure should be repeated until water doesn't become completely transparent and the deposit won't disappear. Then the bank needs to roll up a metal cover.
Pickled cucumbers with vinegar
To prepare fruits for the winter in such a way, it is required to you: - 1 kg of cucumbers; - 3 tablespoons of salt; - 3 tablespoons of sugar; - 1 tablespoons of vinegar; - 1 bunch of fennel; - 2 leaves of horse-radish; - 4 garlic gloves; - 5 peas of a black pepper; - 5 bay leaves; - 1 liter of water. Dissolve salt in water and put it on fire, you cook a brine of 15 minutes. In conclusion add to it vinegar. In a 3-liter jar lay out cucumbers, interlaying them with greens, garlic, bay leaf and pepper. Fill in fruits with a hot brine, cover capacity metal, put to be pasteurized for 5 minutes, then roll up.