How to cook lightly salted cucumber

Usually lightly salted cucumbers are kept in brinefor one or two days, but you can cook lightly salted cucumbers and quickly (in just a few hours), if you cut off their tips beforehand or pour cucumbers with hot brine instead of cold. But we will not do with general phrases. We offer our readers recipes of lightly salted cucumbers.

Lightly salted cucumber with hot pepper

If you like ostrenkie snacks, you can cook lightly salted cucumber with the addition of hot pepper. To do this you need the following products:

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  1 kg of young elastic cucumbers
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  1.5 liters of water
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  6 tbsp. l. coarse salt
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  4-5 cloves of garlic
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  big bunch of dill
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  half a pod of hot pepper

Rinse cucumbers under a stream of cold water andcut their tips. Pepper rinse, cut along, scrub the seeds and cut into thin strips across. Two-thirds of a bunch of dill lay on the bottom of jars, bowls or pots. Garlic cut into thin slices, lay a piece of garlic in dill. Then put the cucumbers densely, sprinkle with pepper and garlic. Lay the next layer of cucumbers, alternating them with greens and spices. Sprinkle the cucumbers with salt and shake the container.

Water boil and pour boiling water on cucumbers. Then pour off the water, bring them back to the boil and pour the cucumbers with the resulting hot solution. Cover cucumbers with a flat plate or saucer, from above place a small load. Leave for two days at room temperature.

Freshly salted cucumbers without brine

We are used to cooking lightly salted cucumbers in brine, but it turns out, you can do without it! In a few hours, the cucumbers will let the juice go. To prepare lightly salted cucumbers without brine, take:

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  1 kg of cucumbers
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  1 head of garlic
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  1 small bunch of dill
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  1 tbsp. l. salt

Wash cucumbers and cut off their tips. Garlic finely chop the garlic, and finely chop the dill. Add salt, dill and garlic to the cucumbers, mix well. Put everything in a plastic bag and tie it. Transferring the package into a bowl, take it to the refrigerator. From time to time the package must be taken out and shaken. If you put the cucumbers in the refrigerator from the evening, they will be ready for lunch the next day.

Lightly salted cucumber with coriander and mustard

Want to give a lightly salted cucumber piquant taste? Add to them coriander and mustard, you'll see, the result of your culinary experiments will pleasantly surprise you! To prepare lightly salted cucumbers according to this recipe, you should take:

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  1 kg of cucumbers
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  1 liter of water
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  4-5 sprigs of dill
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  1 head of garlic
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  1 tbsp. l. coarse salt
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  1 tsp. 9% vinegar
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  1 tsp. mustard powder
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  0.5 tsp. coriander seeds

Take small young gherkins and pour themcold water, you can add crushed food ice into it. Leave cucumbers for one or two hours. Just removed from the beds cucumbers can not soak, just rinse them with cold water.

Cucumbers cut the tips, put cucumbers in dense rows in a prepared container. On cucumbers put sliced ​​garlic and dill branches, sprinkle with seeds of coriander.

Boil water for the brine, add salt. Remove the boiling brine from the fire, add the vinegar and mustard, stir. Fill with hot brine cucumbers. When the brine has completely cooled down, cover the cucumbers with a lid and clean it in the refrigerator for at least two days.

Bon Appetit!