How to make pickled cucumbers

Chinese people like to eat porridge as a staple food, and pickled cucumbers can be eaten as a side dish with porridge. Pickled cucumbers taste a bit salty, and have the pickled taste of pickled food, which is the most suitable for porridge. However, in daily life, because of the lack of understanding of pickled food, people often don’t know the specific steps of pickling cucumbers. So how do you pickle cucumbers? The following article gives a complete guide to pickling cucumbers. Let’s take a look.

How to make pickled cucumbers

Ingredients

Salt, soy sauce, MSG, ginger, garlic, pepper, sugar, white wine

Specific steps for pickling salted cucumbers

1. Prepare some cucumbers (prepare the ingredients according to the amount you need), and then cut them into strips and cubes. Of course, you can also cut the pickled cucumbers according to your needs. For taste considerations, it is best to peel the cucumber skin.

2. Sprinkle appropriate amount of salt on the cut cucumber strips. The purpose of adding salt is to make the cucumber release water, so don’t worry about the pickled cucumbers being too salty. Most of the salt will flow out with the cucumber juice.

3. Stir the cucumbers sprinkled with salt evenly, then place a heavy object on top to press it down, and then squeeze out as much water as possible from the cucumbers. This way the cucumbers will be more flavorful.

4. Choose seasonings according to your taste, and then set them aside for use the next day.

5. Put soy sauce and sugar into a pot and steam them. After the soy sauce is boiled and the sugar is melted, turn off the heat, pour them into a container, wait for a while, and wait for the soy sauce and sugar to cool down.

6. Add the main ingredient cucumber and other seasonings to the sauce and sugar soup in turn, then add white wine and MSG for seasoning.

7. Put the pot on the fire, then put oil in the pot, add peppercorns when the oil is hot, wait for the oil temperature to cool to room temperature, pour the oil in the pot on the cucumbers just prepared, and the fragrant pickled cucumbers are ready.