This recipe perfectly will be suitable for fans of crunchy salty cucumbers without vinegar. Mineral water allows cucumbers to develop a mild flavor without sourness and ensures safety of preparation during the whole winter.
The ingredients necessary for salting cucumbers with mineral water
For salting it will be required:
- about 500 grams of small cucumbers;
- 300-350 ml of sparkling mineral water;
- 3-4 small garlic gloves;
- 30 гр salts;
- umbrella of fresh fennel;
- leaves of horse-radish, cherry or currant at will.
We prepare cucumbers with mineral water for the winter
1. For a start it will be necessary to prepare banks for salting. They need to be washed well with soda and soap and to sterilize in an oven about 10-15 minutes at 130-140 degrees.
2. When the sterilized banks cool down, on a bottom it is necessary to put fennel, the peeled garlic and leaves of greens at choice.
3. Wash up and cut off small cucumbers on 1 cm since both ends. To densely lay them in jars.
Important! Cucumbers for this house preparation have to be small. Also it is worth trying to choose vegetables, identical by the size. Cucumbers have to be equal, with an elastic peel without cracks and scratches.
4. On each 0.5 kg of cucumbers to pour out on a salt tablespoon. Further to fill in cucumbers with just open aerated mineral water.
5. Cover jars with the ironed gauze or a towel and to leave for the night on a table.
6. In the morning banks with cucumbers will need to be closed hermetically covers from polyethylene and to remove on storage during cold.