How to salt the freshly salted cucumber correctly? It is interesting to learn about this for each young hostess. After all, this is a traditional dish - a great snack for strong alcoholic beverages. And also a common component of various salads. Lightly salted cucumbers, the recipes of which are listed below, can be an excellent addition to the dishes from potatoes. They excite appetite and favorably influence digestion.
How to salt a freshly salted cucumber: choice and preparation
First you need to buy suitable vegetables. Successful cucumbers are already half the success. They are easy to prepare for salting, and they look much more aesthetic. What should be understood as "good" cucumbers? Consider carefully the skin and the form. The color of the cucumber is directly related to its age and variety. Younger vegetables have a bright green color. Yellowish and overgrown cucumbers are unsuitable for preservation. Pay attention to the presence of pimples. If they are black, then cucumbers are perfect for pickling and pickling. Banks with them almost do not have a chance to explode. White pimples come from vegetables that are grown in greenhouses. They can also be used for pickling. But their texture is less elastic and crispy. They are softer. In order for the cucumber to crunch well, you must initially choose vegetables with a thicker skin. She has to poke hard with her fingernail. To exclude the possibility of buying bitter cucumbers, they need to be tried. Vegetables should be washed only before conservation. Keep in a closed container before you salt, lightly salted cucumbers categorically not recommended. After purchase, they usually stand a day in cold water, often changing it. This helps to remove some of the nitrates from the vegetables that they were processed. And also gives them additional elasticity.
How to salt light-salted cucumber?
After washing it is necessary to trim the tail part. Where a cucumber is connected to a whip, a large number of harmful substances usually accumulate. Prepare dill, bay leaf, garlic, sweet pepper and a few buds of cloves. Put dill to the bottom of each can, then lay out (after thoroughly washing) the cucumbers and garlic, alternating with the laurel leaf. After all the layers are laid, add the spices. Cook the brine from good clean water. For five liters you need two full handfuls of large salt. Fill cucumbers with hot brine. After filling the jar, it should stand slightly open, and then (from it bubbles will come out) it will be possible to add more liquid. Track the brine color change the next day - it should blush. If this happened, then the canning technology was observed correctly. After turbidity of the brine, the jar can be placed in the refrigerator, and its contents consumed in food. There is another way of how to salt cucumbers. The recipe allows you to prepare them in a package. First you need to cut them into four parts. Put in a bag with dill, garlic and herbs, add salt and close tightly. Cucumbers salted in their own juice.