Cooking pickled cucumbers with your own hands is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. Modern culinary art does not stand still: today you can find many recipes that do not take a lot of time to implement, and with a minimum of effort, you can get very tasty and fragrant pickled cucumbers on your table. Our article presents such recipes.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
The advantage of homemade pickles, of course, is the fact that all the ingredients are prepared independently - only high-quality products are selected. In order to get a tasty harvest, you need to purchase cucumbers that will be suitable for pickling.
The following factors are important:
- The size. Pikuli are tiny fruits 3-5 cm long, gherkins 6-9 cm and greenery 10-14 cm. Larger fruits can be pickled in sliced circles.
- Grade. It can be salad, universal and for pickling. The last cucumbers can be determined by the presence of black spikes on the peel or by their thin skin, which will allow the marinade to soak into the vegetable well.
- Colour. It should be saturated green, without light and yellow spots and stripes.
The best recipes for pickled crisps
Surely every housewife will be able to find in the presented list of recipes an interesting, and most importantly - a simple and affordable way of pickling for the winter, which will please her family. Each step-by-step recipe will be an excellent base for beginners to cook, and will also help to reveal the secret of each individual dish for more experienced housewives.
Classic garlic recipe
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Classic garlic recipe
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Important! As a rule, for a liter jar, 0.5 l of marinade is necessary, in a two-liter jar its volume should be 1 l, and for a three-liter bottle you need to prepare 1.5 l.
Instant recipe
3 cans of 750 g45 minutes
bow (red)
2 large heads
mustard seeds
2 tbsp. l
Nutrition value per 100 g
- Prepare basic vegetables - pre-rinse, soak for a couple of hours in cool water. Peel the onion.
- Glass containers and lids must be sterilized by sprinkling them with boiling water, steam or sending in the oven for a while.
- Cut the cucumbers into slices. Rinse the onion with cold water and cut into rings or half rings.
- Mix onion with chopped cucumbers and fill the jars with the resulting salad.
- For the marinade, you must combine apple cider vinegar with all the spices listed and put on fire.
- The liquid must be brought almost to a boil, controlling the process of complete dissolution of sugar crystals.
- Hot containers are filled with cucumbers so that the vegetables are completely covered with liquid.
- Close the cans and let them cool completely. Then they must be sent to the refrigerator for a day.
- After a day, a snack can be served on the table. Cooking it is quick and easy, just as quickly it is eaten. However, if you keep it for several weeks, then the taste will become such that you lick your fingers.
Important! Preservation can be prepared with the essence of acetic acid or diluted with water to obtain table vinegar of various concentrations (3–9%).
No sterilization and no vinegar
For marinade, the following ingredients are used: water: 1 l; sugar: 5-10 g; salt: 50 g; citric acid: 5 g.
30 minutes
dill umbrellas (seeds)
5-6 pcs.
blackcurrant leaves
2-3 pcs.
Nutrition value per 100 g
- Vegetables must be prepared - washed and laid in a basin where they can lie in water for at least 4 hours.
- At this time, you can do sterilization of containers (the recipe involves pickling in 3 liter jars). Processing of glass containers and lids for a twist can be carried out in the oven or doused with steam, since such a large container does not fit in the microwave.
- On the bottom of the container are: dill with umbrellas, possible with sprigs, or a few seeds, a few leaves of a cherry tree and a bush of currant, a couple of large garlic cloves, a few peas of black pepper to taste, about 4-6 pcs. Also piquancy to the taste of the dish will add tarragon, oak leaves and a pod of hot pepper.
- A layer of vertically arranged medium-sized cucumbers is laid on top of the green pillow. The second layer can be laid out in such a way as to fill the jar as much as possible.
- Pour boiling water into a container with cucumbers and cover it, let the vegetables stand in a hot liquid for 3-5 minutes, and then pour it.
- The marinade is prepared on the basis of 1 liter of water, to which sugar, salt and citric acid are added.
- The mixture is brought to a boiling point and pour cucumbers on it. This is the last fill, after which it is necessary to immediately preserve the jar.
- After spinning, the bottles are turned over and wrapped up, left to cool completely. It is advisable to store such cucumbers in a cool room.
Did you know? The birthplace of cucumbers is India, however, in this country, the most common type of vegetable is not a traditional medium-sized green fruit for us, but yellow curry cucumber. It is often used in the dish of the same name and recipes with stewed vegetables in Indian cuisine.
Sugarless
For each bottle you will need: salt: 90-100 g; garlic: 3–6 cloves; acetic acid 70%: 1 tsp.
1 can of 3 l30 minutes
horseradish leaves (can be replaced by root)
2-3 pcs.
blackcurrant leaves
5-6 pcs.
Nutrition value per 100 g
- First of all, it is necessary to prepare and sterilize the container. To do this, it is sent to the oven or held over a saucepan with steam for 5-10 minutes. You should also process the metal lids for preservation by boiling them in a saucepan.
- Cucumbers before washing thoroughly washed and soaked in cold water for several hours. Then you need to trim their ends.
- At the bottom of a glass jar, you need to lay greens and garlic cloves.
- Then the cucumbers are stacked as densely as possible to each other.
- Pour boiling water over the container and let it stand for 3-5 minutes, then carefully pour this water into the pan. After that, salt is added there and the resulting marinade is sent to boil.
- The second time pour boiling water over the cucumbers, while the marinade still boils on the stove. After 3-5 minutes, drain the water from the cucumbers and pour them with the prepared liquid. Vinegar is added to each jar. If the amount of marinade was insufficient, add boiling water to the bottle.
Important! You can measure salt with a matchbox. A 3-liter jar takes 3 boxes of salt.
Without horseradish and without greens
To prepare the marinade you need the following ingredients: water: 1 l; salt: 1 tbsp. l .; sugar: 2.5 tbsp. l
1 hour
vinegar essence 70%
0.5 tsp
Nutrition value per 100 g
- Wash the cucumbers and soak them in water for 1-2 hours.
- Prepare cans - wash and sterilize under the influence of high temperature in a microwave or oven. Boil the lids.
- First, pour bay leaf and dill seeds with boiling water in a separate container.
- In each jar spread several slices of chopped sweet bell pepper, 2-3 bay leaves, 3-4 peas of black pepper and a little allspice, a couple of cloves of garlic and a pinch of dill seeds.
- We put cucumbers vertically in each container in the first row, and then a few more pieces are laid horizontally until the container is completely filled.
- Filling the jar with cucumbers, you can add a couple more cloves of garlic and a few dill seeds on top.
- Pour boiling water over vegetables and cover. After 10 minutes, drain the water, pour boiling water again.
- Prepare the marinade - add salt and sugar to the water, bring the mixture to a boil.
- Pour the cucumbers with hot marinade, add to a jar of acetic acid and tighten the snack.
- After seaming or tightly twisting the screw-on lid, the jar is turned over and wrapped until it gradually cools down. You can store such pickled vegetables in the apartment.
Did you know? It is useful to eat cucumbers with the peel without cutting it before eating. It is in this part of the vegetable that fiber, important minerals and phytochemicals are located.
With vodka
1 can for 3 l20 minutes
peppercorns mixture
pinch
Nutrition value per 100 g
- Put washed cucumbers in a deep basin and pour them with cold water, leave for 3 hours. Cut off the tips of the fruits and dry them with a towel.
- Sterilize the cans with steam or in the oven.
- At the bottom of the can, lay half of the herbs and spices, on top of them lay a layer of cucumbers in an upright position, and then another layer of spices.
- Then spread more cucumbers until the containers are completely filled. The second layer can be laid out horizontally, as it will be possible to pickle more vegetables.
- Pour vodka into a container with cucumbers, add salt and pour cold water.
- Send the cucumbers under the nylon cover and put in the refrigerator.
- After 3-4 days, the fruits will already marinate enough, and they can be tasted.
- Cucumbers prepared without seaming should be stored in the refrigerator or in a very cool room, for example, in the basement.
Spicy with mustard and onions
To prepare the marinade you need the following ingredients: water: 1 l; salt: 1 tbsp. l .; sugar: 1 tbsp. l .; vegetable oil: 3 tbsp. l .; dry mustard (in grains): 1 tsp.
1 hour
Nutrition value per 100 g
- Wash the cucumbers, soak for 5 hours in cold water.
- During this time, it is necessary to prepare the dishes for preservation - wash and sterilize it. It is absolutely necessary to sterilize not only cans, but also metal covers.
- Cut the cucumbers into pieces. It can be circles 1 cm thick or thinner rings. Peel and chop the onion rings. Grind greens.
- Place a layer of chopped cucumbers in the jars, cover it with herbs and onions. Then again lay out a layer of cucumbers and cover it with chopped dill, parsley and onions.
- Prepare the marinade, for which we add salt, sugar, vegetable oil, dry mustard to the water. Send everything to the stove. When the water almost boils, it is necessary to add vinegar to it and remove the mixture from the fire.
- Pour the cans with marinade at the very neck and close with a screw cap.
- Turn the cans over and wrap them in a warm blanket to provide gradual cooling.
Features of storage of blanks
Preserve cucumbers with sterilization is necessary for storage in the apartment. One-liter cans are kept in boiling water for at least 15 minutes, larger cans require a slightly longer sterilization. Then the labor spent on preservation certainly will not go down the drain. However, if the conditions make it possible to move conservation into such a cool room as a cellar or cellar, then you can do without this heat treatment.
Pickled cucumbers are an excellent type of snack, which is very popular and in demand in our country. By adding various spices, aromatic herbs and vegetables, you can make their taste unique and thus find your perfect recipe.