How to make homemade pickled cucumbers

Pickled cucumber is a refreshing side dish. It has a strong sauce flavor, a crispy taste, and high nutritional value. Many people usually want to make it at home, but how should pickled cucumbers be pickled? I will write down the pickling method of homemade pickled cucumbers in a while. Friends who like to eat pickled cucumbers can learn it carefully.

How to make homemade pickled cucumbers

Ingredients for homemade cucumber sauce

When you pickle cucumbers yourself, you need to prepare an appropriate amount of cucumbers, salt, soy sauce, star anise, red pepper, and sugar, as well as a small amount of cooking wine and peanut oil.

How to make homemade pickled cucumbers

1. Wash the prepared fresh cucumbers with clean water, remove the moisture, add sufficient salt and marinate for 24 hours. It is best to put a heavy object on top to pickle out as much moisture as possible from the cucumbers.

2. Take out the pickled cucumbers and pour out the brine. Place the cucumbers in a ventilated place to dry. After all the moisture on the surface has dried up, put them away for later use.

3. Pour the prepared soy sauce into the pot, add star anise, red pepper, sugar, cooking wine and other seasonings, heat, bring to a boil, then add appropriate amount of peanut oil and bring to a boil again, turn off the heat, and wait for it to cool down naturally.

4. Pour the cooled soup into the dried cucumbers, making sure the soy sauce covers the cucumbers. Then seal them and marinate them in a cool place. After a day or two, the cucumbers will be seasoned and you can eat them directly with clean, dry chopsticks.