The article shares how to make whole cucumber pickle with salt water. This is a very simple traditional fermentation. This recipe is delicious crispy pickles, beautiful golden color and long lasting without mold. This is how to use boiled salt water to ferment the cucumber.
Summer is usually a lot of cucumbers. Asians like to make cucumber pickle in salt brine for the winter.
Table of content:
- Health benefits of fermented pickle
- Who should not eat cucumber pickle
- Ingredients
- How to Pickle Cucumbers
- Preserving cucumber pickle
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Health benefits of fermented pickle
Fermented Pickles can:
- boost your intake of antioxidants
- anticancer benefits
- may reduce the risk of obesity
Fermentation is one method of pickling. This process is what gives fermented pickles their sour taste. The pickles sit in salt water and ferment over many days. When vegetables and fruits are fermented, healthy bacteria break down the natural sugars.These bacteria, also known as probiotics, preserve foods and have many health benefits for your body.
Most pickles you’ll find in the grocery store are unfermented such as vinegar pickles. In these cases, the cucumbers soak up the vinegar and spices. They’re easy to make at home, too.
Who should not eat cucumber pickle
- Most people with high blood pressure, extremely salty pickled foods may put you at greater health’s risk.
- It is because Preserving any kind of food requires the addition of salt, and salt makes up about 5 percent of most pickling recipes.
Ingredients:
- Cucumbers: 10kg (22 pounds) (about 50 cucumbers)
- Water: 5 litres (1.32 gallon)
- Salt: 500g (1.1 pound)
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HOW TO MAKE FERMENTED CUCUMBER PICKLE Step by Step:
1.Preparing the cucumbers. Day 1:
Wash cucumbers:
- Choose cucumbers with fewer seeds and firm to make pickles.
- Wash the cucumber thoroughly. This step should be done carefully to prevent the jar of pickles from spoiling quickly.
Salting:
- Sprinkle all the salt on the cucumbers and mix well.
- Marinated like this for 1 day. You can bring it outside in the light sunshine as well.
- After 1 day, the water in the cucumber will come out.
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2. How to Pickle Cucumbers
Day 2: How to make Cucumber pickle. Stage 1
- Remove the cucumbers and place them in a container (or jar). You should use a container with a tight lid. Place cucumbers 3cm (1.2inch) from the mouth of the container.
- Add 5 liters of water to the cucumber salt water. Bring to a boil on medium heat for about 1 minute.
- Pour hot salted brine into the jar of cucumber. The hot salted water will help to kill the bacteria that can be generated during the pickling process.
- Use some small bottles of spring water put on the surface of the cucumbers. Then close the lid of the box. This step will help the cucumber submerged in the salted brine.
Day 5 – Day 12. How to make pickled cucumber. Stage 2
- About 3 days of dipping cucumbers in salted water. Pour out the pickled brine and bring to a boil again. This step will help the pickle brine not be bacteria and moldy.
- Rearranging the cucumbers. Move the fruits from the top to the bottom and from the bottom to the top. This step will helps the cucumber to absorb the salt water more evenly.
- Pour the boiling salted brine back into the container.
- Put the spring water bottle back on top. Close the lid of the cucumber pickle box.
- Wait another 5 to 7 days to be able to eat.
3. Preserving cucumber pickle
Method 1: Preserving the whole box of cucumber pickle
- Leave the whole cucumbers in the pickling box.
- When you need, take some out and prepare for many delicious recipe.
- This way, you should pay attention to keep the box of pickled cucumbers at clean and cool place.
Method 2: Refrigerate. This way, I usually do.
- Remove the whole pickled cucumbers and drain.
- Then put in ziplock bags
- Store in the freezer
- This way will get the acidity of the pickle the right way you want. Also, they could be preserved for several months.
This cucumber pickle recipe is simple to process. If you don’t add any seasoning. Your pickled cucumbers can be last for long, not spoiled, moldy and delicious.
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