Lightly salted cucumbers with herbs and instant garlic - 8 step-by-step recipes

When the time comes for young vegetables to ripen, you usually really want to pamper yourself with fresh, lightly salted cucumbers, for example, in a bag with garlic and dill. The method is not at all complicated, but very successful, it can be either dry or brine. For salting, it is most convenient to use bags with airtight locks, but you can also use ordinary ones if they are tied tightly. The good thing about the bags is that cucumbers get light-salted in them much sooner than in a saucepan or in a jar. 8 quick recipes with photos step by step of your choice!

A quick recipe for 1 kg of lightly salted cucumbers with garlic and dill

Cooking time: 1.5 hours.

Servings: 1kg.

As always, the first recipe from our culinary selection will be with photos that will teach you how to easily and quickly make pickled cucumbers with garlic and dill in a bag in your kitchen. The recipe is for 1 kg of fresh cucumbers, ideally just picked from the garden!

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  Wash the cucumbers, dry them, cut them lengthwise into 4 parts, carefully put them in a tight, transparent plastic bag.
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  Add hot pepper rings to them if desired. But fresh dill and garlic must be cut by all means, because without these two ingredients, cucumbers will not acquire such a familiar, fresh and pleasant aroma, for which we love these vegetables most of all!
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  Salt your pickling, add ground black pepper.
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  Tie a container with cucumbers hermetically and shake for a couple of minutes so that its contents are evenly distributed inside.
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  Then put a bag of cucumbers in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours and enjoy delicious homemade pickling.

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Lightly salted cucumbers in a bag with garlic, dill, oil

This option for pickling cucumbers is also very attractive for its simple recipe. Cucumbers, or rather a very tasty salad of freshly pickled cucumbers with fragrant dill, fresh hot garlic and vegetable oil, will be ready to eat for 8-12 hours.

Ingredients:

• Cucumbers - 1 kg.
• Salt - 2 tbsp. l.
• Granulated sugar - 1-2 tbsp. l.
• Table vinegar - 1 tbsp. l.
• Fresh dill - 1 bunch.
• Sunflower oil - 3 tbsp. l.
• Garlic - 6-8 cloves.
• Packages - 2 pcs.

Cooking process:

1. Prepare the cucumbers by washing and soaking them in cold water as always. If their peel turns out to be bitter, then be sure to peel it.
2. Cut each cucumber into bars or halves.
3. Finely chop fresh dill and garlic.
4. Place the plastic bags one by one to make a sturdy container for pickling cucumbers.
5. Put all the prepared ingredients in the bags, not forgetting to add vinegar, salt, sugar and any odorless vegetable oil.
6. Seal the bags tightly and shake for 1-2 minutes to mix the contents.
7. Place the cucumbers in the refrigerator, then eat after 8 hours. Salted in the morning, by the evening they will be completely ready.

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Crispy lightly salted cucumbers with garlic, dill, vinegar

This recipe makes cucumbers very similar to pickled cucumbers, but making them much quicker and easier. If you want your cucumbers to crunch perfectly, soak them in cold water for several hours before salting.

Ingredients:

• Cucumbers - 1 kg.
• Dill - 1 bunch.
• Garlic to taste.
• Salt - 1.5 tbsp l.
• Sugar - 1-2 tbsp. l.
• Vinegar - 1 tbsp l.
• Dill umbrellas - 2 pcs.
• Currant leaves - 3 pcs.
• Cherry leaves - 3 pcs.
• Oak leaves - 3 pcs.

Cooking process:

1. Prepare your cucumbers for salting by cutting off the ends, washing them and soaking them in cold water for several hours.
2. Chop the garlic arbitrarily, and rinse all the leaves thoroughly and rinse with very hot water.
3. Wash and chop fresh dill (you can also use dill in umbrellas).
4. Put all the greens and cucumbers with garlic in a strong bag, preferably with an airtight fastener.
5. Add salt, vinegar and sugar in the amount indicated in the recipe, also add to the bag.
6. Fasten the bag (tie) and shake for a few minutes.
7. Put the bag in the refrigerator, but take it out every hour and shake it again to help the cucumbers rinse better.
8. Wonderful, appetizing crunchy salted cucumbers will be ready in 6 hours.

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A quick and delicious recipe for cucumbers with garlic, dill, soy sauce

If you like Korean-style carrots or cabbage, then this very unusual way of lightly salting cucumbers with the addition of carrots, soy sauce, bite and hot spices will definitely fall in love with you.

Ingredients:

• Cucumbers - 1 kg.
• Carrots - 2 pcs.
• Garlic - 5 cloves.
• Soy sauce - 2 tbsp l.
• Salt - 1 tsp
• Sugar - 0.5 tbsp. l.
• Vegetable oil - 70 ml.
• Vinegar 9% - 1-2 tbsp. l.
• Sesame seeds - 1-2 tbsp. l.
• Red pepper to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Chopped coriander - 1 tsp
• Fresh cilantro to taste.

Cooking process:

1. For this salting, the carrots need to be thinly cut into long strips or chopped on a grater for Korean carrots, but at the very beginning, wash and peel them.
2. Add a little salt, sugar according to the recipe to the carrots and rub everything together with your hands so that the carrots start juicing. Set her aside for half an hour.
3. Divide the cucumbers into small bars, add the remaining salt to them, stir and also let the cucumbers stand on the sidelines for half an hour.
4. Then remove the juice from the cucumbers and carrots, put the vegetables in a common bowl, add finely chopped garlic.
5. Heat the oil in a skillet, add sesame seeds, ground pepper and coriander to it. Pour into cucumbers and carrots.
6. Add soy sauce, chopped cilantro, vinegar and stir well.
7. Put the container with vegetables in the cold; after a couple of hours, stir everything well again, and eat wonderful, unusual cucumbers!

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Crispy cucumbers with garlic, dill and mineral water in a bag

Lightly salted cucumbers with garlic, dill and mineral water are a very convenient, quick and hassle-free way of preparing a fresh vegetable snack. These cucumbers go well with hot potatoes and any meat dishes. Cook and enjoy their unbeatable taste! By the way, it is convenient to salt cucumbers in this way not only in a bag, but also in an enamel saucepan or in a jar, the most important thing is to make sure that the mineral water completely covers the cucumbers.

Ingredients:

• Medium cucumbers - 1 kg.
• Mineral water - 1 liter.
• Salt - 1.5 tbsp l.
• Dill to taste.
• Garlic to taste.
• Fresh parsley, cilantro - optional.

Cooking process:

1. Wash the cucumbers, remove the tips on both sides. It is advisable to lightly salt young, small vegetables, but if you have too large and ripe cucumbers, then cut them into circles.
2. Wash the garlic and herbs, cut the garlic into wedges.
3. Put some greens and garlic on the bottom of the bag or saucepan, put cucumbers on top, greens as the last layer.
4. Dissolve salt in mineral water, pour vegetables and herbs with brine, tie the bag tightly, and cover the saucepan with a lid. If salt in a bag, then place the bag in a bowl.
5. Leave the cucumbers on the kitchen counter for one hour and then put them in the refrigerator.
6. The minimum salting period is 12 hours, during this time the cucumbers will absorb the salt, as well as the smell of herbs and garlic.

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Delicious lightly salted cucumbers with garlic, dill, horseradish

There is an opinion that cucumbers with garlic, dill and horseradish can only be salted in a jar of brine prepared on the basis of cold or hot water, but this is not the case. Try grinning cucumbers according to our recipe, and you yourself will see how delicious they will turn out without any pickle.

Ingredients:

• Cucumbers - 1 kg.
• Garlic - 5-7 cloves.
• Horseradish leaves - 1-2 pcs.
• Dill - 1 bunch.
• Sugar - 0.5 tbsp. l. optional.
• Salt - 1-2 tbsp. l.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the cucumbers thoroughly from dirt, remove the tips from both sides. If your cucumbers have not just been picked from the garden, then keep them in a large container of cold water for 3-5 hours to make them juicier.
2. Put the cucumbers in a bag, put all the greens, washed and dried, as well as the garlic, cut into large slices, there. If you want, you can grind the greens in advance.
3. Add salt and sugar to the bag, twist it tightly and shake for a couple of minutes so that its contents are evenly distributed.
4. Let the cucumbers, along with the herbs in the bag, stay in the refrigerator for a day, and then you can take them out and eat them. As you can see, nothing complicated: this method of salting is very simple, fast, and most importantly - effective!

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A simple and quick recipe for lightly salted cucumbers in a bag with tomatoes

You can add bell peppers to pickled cucumbers in a bag along with tomatoes, so you get a quick, lightly salted vegetable platter, very tasty and aromatic, especially if you cook it from seasonal homemade vegetables and fresh herbs.

Ingredients:

• Tomatoes - 1 kg.
• Cucumbers - 0.7 kg.
• Sweet pepper - 2 pcs.
• Hot pepper - 1 pc. or at will.
• Fresh herbs to taste.
• Garlic - 1 head or to taste
• Mustard beans - 1 incomplete tbsp. l.
• Allspice peas - 5 pcs.
• Black peppercorns or ground - to taste.
• Sugar - 1 tbsp. l.
• Salt - 2-2.5 tbsp l.

Cooking process:

1. Wash vegetables and fresh green parsley, dill or cilantro thoroughly and let the water drain completely (use a paper towel or colander to dry).
2. Cut bell peppers and tomatoes into quarters, cucumbers as well. Place in a large, handy bowl.
3. Peel and chop the garlic, chop the herbs, but not too finely.
4. Salt vegetables, add sugar, chopped garlic and herbs, mustard beans. If you add hot fresh peppers, cut them into small pieces and add to the salting as well.
5. The contents of the bowl are good, but mix gently, then put in one or more plastic bags.
6. Soak the vegetables in bags on the table for 1 hour so that they let the juice and begin to marinate in the heat, and then store the pickling in the refrigerator.
7. Eat a lightly salted vegetable platter in 18-24 hours. The shelf life is no more than three days.

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Lightly salted instant cucumbers in a bag with wedges

Cutting cucumbers into slices or circles for quick salting is not only convenient, but also a very beautiful serving of the dish. Any spicy herbs go well with such cucumbers, but you can limit yourself to ground coriander, because this spice, like garlic, is just perfect for lightly salted cucumbers. Try it!

Ingredients:

• Cucumbers - 0.5 kg.
• Fresh greens - to taste.
• Ground coriander - 1-2 tsp
• Garlic to taste.
• Sugar - 0.5 tbsp. l.
• Salt - 1 tbsp l.

Cooking process:

1. Wash the cucumbers well, then let them stand in cold water for 2-3 hours. If you just plucked cucumbers from the garden, you do not need to soak them.
2. Then cut the cucumbers and immediately place them in a strong plastic bag, where salting will occur.
3. Add salt, sugar and coriander to the bag.
4. Peel fresh garlic, chop it into pieces or crush through a press, add to the salting.
5. Tie a bag of cucumbers very tightly, shake it with a few vigorous movements.
6. Cucumbers, cut into slices or circles, should be salted and cooled for about two to three hours in the refrigerator, and then you can eat them.

Bon Appetit!