Salted cucumbers: recipe delicious summer snack

What snacks can be called very-very popular in the summer in our country? Of course, salted cucumbers. Each experienced hostess will find the recipe or two marinating fresh cucumbers and inexperienced cooks who love to cook with fresh vegetables from the garden, sooner or later begin to learn this art. We will tell you about the most delicious recipes pickled cucumbers that are of interest to both experienced and novice mistress.

Season cooking pickled cucumbers - it is usually in June-July. This wonderful appetizer combines fresh summer vegetables and bright spicy, tangy and salty tastes. That's why its so fond of many - to find a man who refuses to aromatic crispy pickled cucumbers is very difficult.

Preparation of pickled cucumbers - an art that requires knowledge and specific skills. And this art, we will try to tell as detailed as possible.

Features cooking salted cucumbers

First of all it is important to choose the right cucumbers: suitable for marinating small sturdy fruit with thin skin and pimples. In addition, it is best if they just collected from a bed. Next available cucumbers need to be sorted by size, of course, removing all ruffled and yellow fruits.

If one tank pickles same size they are evenly soaked with brine and are obtained tastier than when salted fruits of different sizes.

Once sorted cucumbers, comes the most interesting, because further each chef can come in different ways:

• Cucumbers can simply rinse with cold water and pat dry, then pour the cold brine - they will be ready in 3-4 days;
• Washed with cold water cucumbers dry and pour the hot brine - they will be ready the next day;
• Pour over cucumbers in cold water and leave for a few hours, and then poured cold or hot brine;
• Rinse, soak in cold water or soak the whole cucumber, then cut into circles and fill them with cold or hot brine.

It is believed that if you pour cucumbers before marinating for 2-3 hours in cold water, they will get very crispy.

Which option would be most appropriate, should find out by experiment - or in any way, or you can pickles at someone else's recipe to try, especially if you have tried them, and they will relished.

Below you will find a few of these recipes tasted mistresses, the most simple, but the most spectacular results.

How delicious pickle cucumbers: marinade and recipes

A significant role is played by herbs and spices, marinated cucumbers that. Classic set of spices for pickling cucumbers - this inflorescence dill leaves of cherry and / or currant leaves and roots of horseradish, garlic, bay leaf, cloves, black peppercorn. The more of any one ingredient you take, the more pronounced will be its flavor nuance in cucumbers, in general, all of these products are taken to taste, and the more of them, the spicy and peppery obtained cucumbers. You can add other herbs and spices to taste, but whatever you prepare the marinade, the scheme will be approximately the same.

First spices - cloves, laurel, peppercorn, etc., as well as salt added to a pot of water, all brought to a boil and boiled a little (a few minutes), followed by brine filtered and poured them laid out in a bowl or jar cucumbers . To pickle cucumbers cold way, let the brine cool completely. As for how to lay out cucumbers if marinate them in a basin or a large plate, the position does not matter - just share them layers, shifting chopped coarsely horseradish, garlic, herbs, leaves, etc. If the pickles are a bank, then it is better to put it upright.

To prepare the brine for 2 liters of water is taken in average about 4 tablespoons coarse salt.

Cooking recipes pickled cucumbers so that everything does not list, so we'll just about the most successful and interesting.

Recipe for making pickled cucumbers "classical"

You will need: 1 liter of water, 2 tbsp non-iodized salt large, cucumbers, greens / dill umbrellas, red hot peppers, leaves and roots of horseradish, garlic.

How to cook a classic salted cucumbers. Pour over cucumbers in cold water, leave for 2-3 hours. Peel the garlic and horseradish root, a medium-sized cut them, just chop hot peppers, put prepared foods, adding to them dill and mix them up, the first layer in a container for marinating, put a layer of cucumber, then a layer of spices, cucumbers, etc. Pour hot or cold brine so that it completely covers the products. Cover the leaves of horseradish pickles.

Horseradish - one more important thing to give cucumbers elasticity than it is, the more they will get crispy. Often housewives are no leaves black currant and cherry, if you do not, then replace these ingredients can tarragon.

If we add to the classics a little exotic, too, will turn out very bad. For example, you can pickle cucumbers with apples.

Recipe pickled cucumbers with apples

Need: 10 peas black pepper 8 sheets of black currant, 2-3 leaves of cherries, 2 green apples, 1 kg of cucumbers, 1 bunch of dill and parsley, 1 clove garlic, pickle - 1 liter of water 2 tablespoons rock salt.

How to cook salted cucumbers with apples. Wash the greens, apples and cucumbers, disassemble head of garlic cloves on, peel them, cut the "ass" of cucumbers from two sides, each apple without removing the seeds, cut into quarter-pieces. Place the apples and cucumbers in a jar or bowl, shifting garlic and herbs, leaves, currants and cherries, add the peppercorns. Water bring to a boil, add salt, stir and pour into a bowl of hot products brine at room temperature for leave to marinate for 12 hours.

Pickled cucumbers always at room temperature, it is possible to slightly cool, loosely covering capacity with them with a cloth or wood plank.

Often want to salted cucumbers were witty, with a bright spicy note. Well, this is an achievable task.

Recipe for spicy-sharp pickled cucumbers

You will need: 2 kg of cucumbers, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 red pepper (or less - depending on the desired sharpness), 50 g of thyme, tarragon and dill, 10 g of horseradish.

How to cook spicy and savory salted cucumbers. Cloves of garlic peel, cut into small pieces, wash herbs and cucumbers, dry, finely chopped hot pepper and put cucumbers and other products into the container for marinating layers. The rate of 50 g of salt per 1 liter of water to prepare the brine, pour hot or cold brine marinated products and give the necessary time.

Cook spicy pickles can be otherwise.

Recipe for spicy pickled cucumbers

You will need: 1 kg of fresh cucumbers? lemon, 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard, 2 teaspoons sugar? tsp salt.

How to cook spicy salted cucumbers. Slice the cucumbers circles, put in a container for marinating. Squeeze the juice from the lemon and mix with mustard, sugar and salt, pour the cooked marinade cucumber, shake the container, cover it with a lid, put into the refrigerator for at least an hour.

These pickles are not only delicious but also very quick to prepare, as you can see. Other express way to cook salted cucumbers - in a package.

Recipe pickled cucumbers fast package

You will need: 2 kg of fresh cucumbers, 1 clove garlic, 2 tsp salt, dill.

How to cook quick-salted cucumbers. Ass to cut cucumbers, put them in a large plastic bag, fill with salt, shake, garlic peel and pass through the press, to add to the cucumbers, sprinkle with chopped dill, tie the package as follows shake all leave at room temperature for 3-4 hours. Before use, remove the excess salt from cucumbers.

Cook salted cucumbers can be different - hot or cold brine, a bank or a package with a variety of spices and additives, and in any case will be delicious!