Who does not love to eat homemade pickles?Pickled tomatoes, cucumbers, small scallops - all real decoration of any feast.Without them, they can not do any family dinner or lunch.Pickled cucumbers, gherkins, the recipe of which often remains a mystery to many, is the most favorite product.What are these special pickles?
Pickles - are small cucumbers.Their length is not more than 8 cm, ideally - 4. For some reason such instances, the size of a finger, are most in demand.If you cook them correctly, such a snack will certainly cause a real delight of the guests.
recipe for "Pickled Gherkins»
carefully selected cucumbers need to start leave to soak in ice water for about 7-8 hours.All vegetables must necessarily be clean, free of rot and lesions.Otherwise, the taste of the finished pickles greatly disappoint you.During the soaking is necessary repeatedly to change the water in the tank.This will give the elasticity of cucumbers and seductive crunch.
pickled gherkins to the recipe that we are now reveal, get spicy and fragrant, you must use the following ingredients.Rinse thoroughly with a few umbrellas dill leaves of cherry, black currant, add the peeled cloves of fresh garlic and small roots of horseradish.
soaked cucumbers are selected according to size.Wash them again under cold running water.With a sharp knife cut off the ends.Pickled gherkins (recipe involves the use of glass containers of small volume) must be put in a pre-sterilized jars with 0.5 or 0.7 liters.Dishes cook follows.Boil water in a small saucepan.Hold over steam cans to have formed on the walls of the drop.Sterilize them up until the container does not become completely transparent, without condensation.
on the bottom of each cell must first be put on one leaf of black currant and cherry piece of horseradish, cut into two pieces of fresh peeled clove of garlic, one small umbrella dill, a few peppercorns (black or scented).You will turn out wonderful pickled gherkins.The recipe involves changes in a set of ingredients to suit your taste.
cucumbers is necessary to lay the jar is very tight, that between the vegetables was not an empty seat.Thus in one container shall be the same size gherkins.Banks need to pour boiling water up to the top.Blanking of the container lid and wait until they are completely cool.This liquid is then necessary to be drained (we still need it).
Pickles pickle recipe which is described in this article is almost ready.There are not too many items.Of Strained water prepare the marinade.All amounts of ingredients intended for about one and a half liters of fluid.You will need 3 tablespoons of salt (table), 2 times more sugar and a little vinegar (125 ml).It is on the last component will depend on the degree of severity of finished gherkins.Salt and sugar are added to the water and bring it to a boil.After that you pour the vinegar.Immediately pour the marinade over the banks and cover them with lids.The preferred use of the container with a thread on the neck.Banks turn upside down and wrap up in a warm blanket.Such gherkins stored in the refrigerator or at room temperature.