And do you know how to make lightly salted cucumbers at home delicious and crunchy?

Despite the year-round abundance of fresh vegetables and fresh fruits, you often want something sharp and salty. You can, of course, buy in a supermarket a jar of salted or pickled cucumbers, but it is possible that they will not satisfy your taste requirements. But delicious lightly salted cucumbers, the recipe of which will be given below, can be cooked quickly on their own.

How to make lightly salted cucumber in the home as quickly as possible

The methods of quick pickling of cucumbers exist approximately the same as there are in the world of housewives, who are keen on preserving. Even inveterate bachelors do not deny themselves the pleasure of eating a crispy cucumber. They even invented a method in which they do not even need to be filled with brine, and they are ready in just 20 minutes.

Want to learn how to make lightly salted cucumbers at home for half an hour? Then read on.

For this method of salting you will need:

• Cucumbers (1 kg of small fruit with thin, bumps covered with pimples);
• Salt (a tablespoon is enough);
• Sugar (one teaspoon);
• Garlic (3-4 teeth);
• Greens (dill, parsley, tarragon)
• A polyethylene bag (usual - for food products).

Cucumbers, cut into slices, put in a bag. Then we ship all the other ingredients. It is desirable to cut the greens, but if you really do not want to mess around, you can put it like this. The main thing - do not forget to wash it, too. Tie the neck of the packet and vigorously shake its contents, so that the sugar and salt are evenly distributed throughout the inner surface. Now you have two ways:

• Either put the package in the refrigerator and forget about it for about 5-6 hours;
• Or do exercise and start eating in 20 minutes.

If you can not wait to eat, then take this package, put it in another bag for safety and ... start shaking vigorously. Yes, you can put it in the washing machine, and run the cycle, but no one guarantees that the packages will remain intact. So it's better not to show engineering wit, but to work with your hands. After 20 minutes of vigorous shaking, the product is ready.

How to make lightly salted cucumber at home in brine

Depending on how quickly you want to get ready-made cucumbers, you can again go two ways - to mall them in hot or cold brine. In taste, there is practically no difference, so everything depends on speed and again on your laziness.

If you decide that you have nowhere to rush, then you can not even pick up brine, but just put cucumbers and spices in a jar and pour them with water. You will need:

• 2 kilograms of cucumbers;
• 70-90 g of salt;
• Horseradish (root and foliage);
• Bulgarian pepper and bitter;
• Twigs with leaves of cherry and black currant;
• Tarkhun;
• Inflorescence of dill;
• Black peppercorns;
• garlic.

Cucumbers must be soaked in cold water for a couple of hours. All the greenery must be washed. The root of the horseradish is cleaned and chopped. You can cut it as you like: slices, slices or circles. Tooth cloves can also be cut into a couple of pieces. "Popki" for cucumbers can not be cut, they still prosolyatsya. At the bottom of the tank is placed a third of the greenery (horseradish leaves, tarragon and dill inflorescences), cucumbers are placed vertically. Just do not try to fill the jar as tightly as possible, otherwise they will not please you with their crunch. Between them put a pair of cloves of garlic, a branch of cherry and currant, leaves and pieces of horseradish root, chopped pepper into each jar. Boil one and a half liter of water with salt. Yes, it is very similar to salting, but do not worry, you will get the salted cucumber. For the winter, all blanks and dishes need to be sterilized, and we now only managed to rinse under the tap.

If you pour your pickles with hot brine, then you can serve cucumbers to the table the next day. And in the cold they will have to stand for at least a day. Now you know how to make lightly salted cucumbers at home. They made you delicious and crunchy. No wonder you added so many spicy spices.