Lightly salted cucumbers without vinegar, but with apples - an unusual recipe for lightly salted cucumbers.
Try making an unusual recipe for lightly salted cucumbers without vinegar. Apples will add a sweet and sour taste to the preparation. This method of pickling cucumbers will be useful for those who are contraindicated from eating food seasoned with vinegar.
Preparing lightly salted cucumbers with apples.
Thoroughly wash 1 kg of cucumbers and 2 green apples. We cut off both ends of each cucumber, and cut the apples into 4 parts, leaving the core.
Separate into separate cloves and peel 1 head of garlic.
Place cucumbers, apples, garlic cloves in any container suitable for pickling, add black peppercorns, sprigs of dill and parsley, a few cherry leaves and a little more blackcurrant leaves.
Dissolve 2 tbsp in 1 liter of water. spoons of salt and bring the salt solution to a boil. We immediately pour this brine over the prepared cucumbers and in 5-6 hours the cucumbers will be ready.
It is recommended to keep lightly salted cucumbers in the cold. It is better to sell them quickly so that the taste does not deteriorate from long-term storage. They can “acidify” and turn from lightly salted to pickled.
Cucumbers prepared in this way are used as a savory snack. They are also used as ingredients for preparing salads, sandwiches and first courses.