There are many different options for salting cucumbers at home. However, if you do not want to mess with the pickle or marinade, and after waiting a few days until the cucumbers are soaked in them, you can use the recipe for their quick cooking, which will take no more than 4 hours.
Salted cucumbers in the package
For these purposes, it is necessary to prepare a sufficiently large and dense plastic bag into which fresh and carefully washed cucumbers of small dimensions are put. It is very important to cut off the tip from the side of the stem before the pickling, so that the vegetables start up juice.
The cucumbers prepared in this way should be sprinkled with salt at the rate of 1 tablespoon per 1 kg of vegetables and how should be mixed in a bag. After that, you need to clear 1 head of garlic, finely chop each slice and pour the resulting mass on top of the cucumbers. To make them particularly fragrant and spicy, you can also add chopped sprigs of dill, currant leaves and horseradish - in a word, all the spices that are used in canning cucumbers in the classical way. Those who adore spicy cucumbers can put in a package 1 small pod of bitter pepper, which should not be cut, otherwise eating cucumbers will be almost impossible. Now the package can only be tied up without adding water to it, and left in a warm place for 3-4 hours. After this period, a portion of cucumbers intended for food must be removed from the bag, carefully removed from spices and salt using a standard paper napkin, cut and served. It is not recommended to wash the finished cucumbers in running water, as they will lose their flavor. The remaining vegetables with the package must be placed in the refrigerator.
When cooking salted cucumbers in the package has its own tricks. If you want to speed up the already quick process of salting, then the vegetables can be cut into slices or slices. In this case, you can make an excellent snack in such a simple way in 20-30 minutes. However, it should be noted that the shelf life of cucumbers salted in the package is not more than 2-3 days. Therefore, you need to correctly calculate their number, otherwise spoiled vegetables simply have to be thrown away.
Lightly salted cucumbers in the package are very juicy, fragrant and crispy. They can be served on the table as an independent snack, or added to various salads, such as Russian salad or vinaigrette.
