Pickled cucumbers don't just taste delicious on a burger or as a snack. The natural fermentation process makes the cucumber slices durable and the valuable vitamins are largely retained. The multiplying lactic acid bacteria also have a positive effect on the intestinal flora.
How to pickle cucumber slices?
To preserve cucumber slices, wash and cut pickles, s alt them briefly and pour a decoction of herbal vinegar, water, onions, garlic, horseradish, mustard seeds and peppercorns over them. Dill and other spices can be added for additional flavors.
What is the difference between preserving and pickling
DuringCanning the food is pasteurized using heat. While it cools down, a vacuum forms in the jar with the lid and rubber ring so that no more germs can penetrate.
Bypickling the cucumber slices can be preserved without cooking. First they are s alted and have to steep briefly so that they release water. They are then put into the glass together with a brew. Advantage of this method: All vitamins are retained and additional vitamin C is even formed.
Pickled cucumber recipe
Ingredients for 4 glasses of 500 ml each
- 1000 g pickling cucumbers
- 100 g s alt
- 500 ml herbal vinegar
- 750 ml water
- 1 onion
- 4 garlic cloves
- 4 fine slices of horseradish
- 2 tsp mustard seeds
- 10 peppercorns
- 1 bunch of dill
Preparation
- Wash the cucumbers, cut them into slices and put them in a bowl.
- Sprinkle with s alt and let stand for thirty minutes.
- During this time, sterilize the jars in boiling water for 10 minutes or put them in the oven at 160 degrees for 20 minutes. Let cool on a kitchen towel.
- Peel the onion and cut into fine rings.
- Peel the garlic cloves and halve them.
- Drain the cucumbers and layer them in jars with the dill.
- Make a stock from the vinegar, water, onions, garlic, horseradish, mustard seeds and peppercorns.
- Pour over the cucumbers, making sure the spices are evenly divided between all the jars.
- Seal well.
Store the cucumbers in a dark place for about four weeks so that they can steep.
The closed jars last up to six months. Place opened cucumber slices in the refrigerator and use within seven days.
Tip
Our recipe is just one of many variations. Using spices, you can give the sliced cucumbers a completely different flavor. You can find recipe suggestions for this not only on the Internet, but also in cookbooks from a time when people mostly stored their own supplies for the winter.