Pickled cucumbers with hot capsicum and garlic

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 55 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   We prepare the spices and herbs necessary for making pickled cucumbers. We cut off the tails, and then thoroughly wash the cucumbers, which were previously soaked for six hours in water.

2. STEP 2

   

   Place twigs with currant leaves on the bottom of the pan, add dry dill, horseradish leaf, a head of garlic, half of the chopped hot red pepper, a bunch of fresh dill and lay out the cucumbers.

3. STEP 3

   

   Not very finely chop half of the hot red pepper.

4. STEP 4

   

   Cover the top of the cucumbers with a layer of currant leaves, horseradish, add dill and garlic with hot red pepper.

5. STEP 5

   

   Fill the cucumbers with boiled cold water, about five liters and add salt for pickling, at the rate of fifty grams of salt per liter of water, cover the top with gauze, a plate and, pressing down with a weight, leave for three days for the natural process of fermentation and the production of lactic acid.

6. STEP 6

   

   After three days, remove the cucumbers from the pan, strain the brine through a colander into a smaller pan and remove all used greens.

7. STEP 7

   

   Place the pan with the marinade on the stove, bring to a boil and rinse each cucumber with cold water.

8. STEP 8

   

   Chop a little hot red pepper, a few cloves of garlic and put it in jars, add black peppercorns, bay leaves and a few dill umbrellas.

9. STEP 9

   

   Pour boiling water over currant, oak, bird cherry and horseradish leaves for two minutes, which will add a special taste to cucumbers.

10. STEP 10

    

    Place cucumbers in each jar quite tightly, adding a bunch of dried dill.

11. STEP 11

    

    Very carefully pour the boiled brine into the jars, then cover the jars with a lid and set aside to cool for ten minutes.

12. STEP 12

    

    Pour the brine from the cooled jars into a saucepan and set to boil over high heat.

13. STEP 13

    

    Very carefully fill the jars with cucumbers with boiled brine, close the lids tightly and, turning the jars over, check them for leaks, then cover them with a blanket and leave them like that for a day.

14. STEP 14

    

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