If you cook cucumbers without sterilizing and adding vinegar, this will help reduce the time spent on preservation and keep the fresh taste of zelents. Twists according to one recipe can only be kept in a cold room, while others go through the fermentation process, so they do not need special conditions.
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Barrel greens without sterilization
For 4 liter cans of canning without vinegar, you need to take products in such quantities:
- 2 kg gherkins;
- 1 cup salt
- 2 liters of water;
- 1 parsley root;
- 1 chili pepper;
- 4 oak leaves;
- 4 large garlic teeth.
Zelentsy should be washed and soaked in cold water for an hour or an hour and a half. Then cut off the ends. Peel the garlic and cut into slices. Chop the parsley root into thin strips or half rings. Remove the stalk from the pepper, take out the core with seeds and cut the fruit into large pieces.
Prepare a concentrated brine from water and salt. Banks do not need to be sterilized. Just wash it with baking soda. At the bottom of each container, spread 1 oak leaf and a clove of garlic, 1/4 of parsley and chili.
Cucumbers are stacked vertically, pressed tightly to each other. Pour everything with salt concentrate, cover with a lid and put in deep plates. Leave the greens to ferment for 4 days at room temperature. It is necessary to substitute the plates so that the solution does not pour out onto the countertop.
When the cucumbers without vinegar and sterilization are ready, a whitish coating will form on the bottom of the container. It will have to be removed. To do this, wash all the fruits under running water. The same is done with spices and the jars themselves. Everything is put back in containers and filled with cold tap water. Then they cork them with lids, which are pre-scalded with boiling water. You can store such cucumbers without vinegar at room temperature in a dark place.
Citric acid instead of vinegar
Crispy pickles are obtained by replacing vinegar with citric acid. This does not require sterilization. To prepare cucumbers you need to take:
- 4 kg gherkins;
- 2 liters of water;
- 100 g of salt;
- 2/3 hrs l. citric acid;
- 4 medium garlic cloves
- 1 bunch of dill greens;
- 4 dill umbrellas;
- 8 cherry leaves;
- 8 black currant leaves;
- 4 horseradish leaves;
- 120 g sugar.
Cucumbers must be washed and soaked in cold water for 3-4 hours. Then take out, dry and trim off the ends. Wash all the greens. Peel the garlic and cut into large pieces. Put herbs and garlic teeth on the bottom of the washed jars. Top with cucumbers tightly. Pour boiling water over everything for 15 minutes.
Then carefully drain the liquid from the cans and send to the stove. As soon as it boils, repeat the procedure. In total, cucumbers need to be steamed 3 times without sterilization. At the end of the last manipulation, salt, sugar, citric acid are added to the liquid and brought to a boil again. Cucumbers are poured with the prepared solution, rolled up with tin lids and left to cool, turning the cans upside down. Then conservation without sterilization can be transferred to storage in the basement, cellar or pantry.
Have you tried to cook cucumbers without vinegar and sterilization?
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