Lightly salted crispy instant cucumbers

Green, crispy and very fragrant cucumbers. Lightly salted cucumbers are a traditional dish not only of Russian cuisine, but also of many other cuisines of the world, which also use the method of short-term salting.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 0 % 0 g
Fats 0 % 0 g
Carbohydrates 100 % 2 g
12 kcal
GI: 67 / 0 / 33

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 8 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare the products necessary for lightly salted crispy cucumbers of instant cooking. The quantity is indicated based on one three-liter jar. The main ingredients are cucumbers, garlic, water and salt. Everything else is a matter of taste. I use a standard set of spices: horseradish leaves, currants and cherries, dill and parsley, a few peas of allspice. For those who like spicy, you can add another spicy capsicum.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Cucumbers are very carefully washed. Before cooking, you can even soak cucumbers for 2 hours in cold water. This will restore their elasticity, nourish cucumbers with moisture. As a result, you will get hard and crispy lightly salted cucumbers. We cut off the tails. We put the water for the brine to boil. Dissolve 3 tablespoons in boiling water without a slide of salt. This time I decided to add a little sugar and allspice. Leave the brine to cool slightly.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    A three-liter jar of mine with soda. We put half of the washed leaves of currants and cherries, half a horseradish leaf, dill and parsley, chopped garlic on the bottom of the jar. It's better to use dill umbrellas, but I didn't have them. If you do not have currant and cherry leaves, you can add bay leaf for flavor.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Next, put cucumbers in a jar.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    And the second half of the greenery and leaves.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Pour hot brine. The brine should not be too hot, try with your finger. If the finger does not burn much, then the brine is at the right temperature. Otherwise, our cucumbers will cook and turn yellow. Cover with a lid and leave to cool completely. When they cool down completely, you can eat. But in order for the lightly salted cucumbers to become crispy, they need to be put in the refrigerator overnight.

Do not cook a lot of lightly salted cucumbers "for now" at once — they are not stored for a long time. The harvesting process does not last long, so you can repeat it quite often.

For pickling, use only coarse rock salt, without iodine, not extra, otherwise you will get soft cucumbers and will not hear the desired crunch.

Bon appetit!

Calorie content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Fresh cucumbers - 15   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Horseradish - 49   kcal/100g
  • Grated horseradish with lemon - 117   kcal/100g
  • Grated horseradish with garlic - 72   kcal/100g
  • Horseradish grated table - 117   kcal/100g
  • Parsley greens - 45   kcal/100g
  • Dill greens - 38   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Allspice - 263   kcal/100g
  • Cherry leaves - 0   kcal/100g
  • Currant leaves - 0   kcal/100g

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