The most common vegetable harvest for the winter is canned cucumbers, most often salted. Typically, housewives believe that the taste of the workpiece depends on what spices and spices were used to prepare it. Which packaging will be used does not play a role. In fact, pickled cucumbers in jars differ from barrel cucumbers cooked in a pot or bucket. Try to cook in a bucket, and you yourself will see for yourself.
Did you know? There is a holiday Cucumber Day. It is celebrated worldwide on July 27th.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
Harvesting cucumbers for the winter in any form involves a careful selection of vegetables. They should be of medium size, with a dense dark green peel in the tubercles, whole and solid. Enumerated greens are washed, soaked in cold water for 6-8 hours. After they have their tips cut off and laid out in containers for salting.
Cold pickled cucumber recipes in a bucket
Cold salting does not involve the use of acid, but only cold water and spices. The cooking technology is similar to the usual pickling of cucumbers.
A simple recipe for storage in the apartment
30 minutes
dill with inflorescences or just its seeds
400 g
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Zelentsy washed and soaked in cold water. After washing again.
- Garlic is sliced.
- Greens and peppers are washed. Pepper can be cut, or you can put the whole together with the seeds.
- At the bottom of the bucket spread half the herbs, pepper and spices.
- Cucumbers are densely laid on top.
- Top lay the remainder of the components.
- Dissolve the salt in ice water and fill the solution with vegetables.
- To make the salting process faster, the bucket is sent to heat for three days.
Important! There may be more or less water, depending on how tightly the greenhouses are laid in the bucket.
With vodka
30 minutes
horseradish leaves, currants, dill, garlic, peas
taste
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Cucumbers are washed, soaked in water. Previously, the tips of Zelentsy need to be cut off.
- The bucket is washed, sterilized.
- Spread cucumbers, herbs and spices in alternating layers. You need to start with greens.
- Pour salt from above and fill everything with water so that the vegetables are completely covered with it.
- They put oppression on top and send the blank to a dark cool place (pantry, balcony, cellar) for three to four days.
Did you know? It was previously believed that young cucumbers and their seeds suppress sexual desire, therefore this culture was massively grown at monasteries.
No vinegar
30 minutes
spring water
3000–5000 ml
dill with inflorescences
5-6 branches
cherry leaves
10-15 pcs.
currant leaves
10-15 pcs.
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Vegetables are washed and filled with spring water. After rinsing again.
- Wash and sterilize the bucket.
- Peel the garlic, wash the greens.
- Cucumbers are laid out in a bucket, each layer is sprinkled with herbs and spices.
- The last layer spread all the leaves along with dill.
- Take a three-liter jar, pour salt into it and fill it with water. All is stirred until completely dissolved. The brine is poured into a bucket. If there is little water, repeat the procedure until the liquid covers the vegetables.
- The bucket is covered with a lid or a large plate, on top of which they put oppression. The container itself is placed in a wide basin in a cool room for three to five days.
Important! The bucket is not completely filled with vegetables. It is advisable to leave 10 centimeters.
Cucumbers prepared according to this recipe turn out crispy. Before use, it is advisable to wash them from brine. In all the recipes described, salting takes place either in a plastic or enameled bucket.
Features of storage of blanks
Pickles are stored in a cool dark place. This is necessary so that neither sunlight nor temperature stimulate the fermentation process. So that the aroma of salting does not hover throughout the apartment, the container must be hermetically sealed.
Such simple recipes for salting vegetables will appeal to every housewife. During harvesting, heat treatment and preservatives are not used, so vegetables will retain a maximum of nutrients.
