Oversalted cucumbers: what to do and how to fix it?

If you made a mistake with the choice of recipe, took salt of the wrong grind or bought already over-salted cucumbers - it is not critical. Cucumbers, which are 95% water, can easily be corrected with the same liquid. To keep cucumbers long, correct the flavor of only the part you plan to use in the next few days.

How to make cucumbers less salty

Variants of getting rid of over-salted pickles:

No brine

If cucumbers bought in bulk are very salty, mask the salt with sugar or make a cucumber salad by adding other ingredients. In the first case, cut the vegetables crosswise into several pieces, put them in an enamel bowl or glass container. In the same place, pour sugar, season with chopped fresh dill, mix, leave for 30 minutes.

If there is no time to wait for the sugar to dissolve and change the taste, cut the cucumbers into small cubes, add more onions, garlic, pour vegetable oil.

Dilute the brine with water

Do not worry if the pickles you made have become too salty over time. To remedy the situation, remove the fruit from the jar. Pour half of the filling into the sink. Return the vegetables to the container, add the dill, parsley, bay leaf, a few peas of black pepper. Fill to the top with clean water. In 48 hours cucumbers will be slightly salted again.

Sweeten the brine.

Get rid of the strong salt solution, rinse the cucumbers. Make a new sweet stock at the rate of 1 tbsp sugar per 1 liter of water. Add garlic, spicy herbs. Put the container with the contents in a cold place for two days.

Use cucumbers in other dishes

No one will pay attention to the over-salt of finely chopped cucumbers, if this ingredient will be adjacent to other unsalted components of vinaigrette, Olivier, rassolnik, azu, solyanka. In salads, cucumbers go well with beets, potatoes, chicken and beef fillet, liver, mushrooms, fish. Make tartar sauce, croutons or smoked fish sandwiches with cucumbers.

Bake a pie.

You will need yeast dough, 3 boiled eggs, 200 g cucumbers and cheese each, 100 g green onion feathers. For the filling, combine cubes of pickles with chopped eggs, onion, grated cheese. Divide the dough into two parts. Roll out the first half on a baking tray greased with butter, distribute the filling. Put a layer of remaining dough on top, pinch the edges together. Bake the cake for half an hour in an oven heated to 200 degrees.

Homemade recipes for pickles

Lightly salted crispy cucumbers are not difficult to make yourself at home:

Express Pickling .

Cut off the tips from 1 kg of green vegetables, finely chop a bunch of dill, two cloves of garlic. Put everything in a cellophane bag, add two large spoons of salt and one sugar. Tie the bag, shake the contents, put it on the refrigerator shelf for 8-10 hours. The dish will cook much sooner if each cucumber is cut across into several pieces.

Grandma's recipe

Wash selected calibrated cucumbers (0.8 kg), soak for a couple of hours in cold water. Prepare a small chili pepper, 3 horseradish leaves, 3 garlic cloves, 3-5 sprigs of dill to flavor the brine. Place the garlic, chopped peppers in the bottom of the jar. Lay out the cucumbers, alternating with the herbs in layers. Dissolve 2 tbsp. salt in 1 liter of water, pour the liquid over the cucumbers, place a horseradish leaf on top. After three days you can take a sample.

In a hot brine

In an enamel saucepan, pour 40 g of salt, put dill, thin slices of 5 garlic cloves, 4-6 peas of black pepper. Add a liter of water, put on the stove, bring to a boil. After the salt has dissolved, remove the pot from the hot stove. Prepare the cucumbers - wash, pierce in several places with a fork. Dip the vegetables in a container with hot brine, cover with a plate, put a burden. After 24 hours the cucumbers will be salted.

Salted cucumbers are prepared in such a way as to have time to eat them in 5 days. On the sixth day they become salty. You will have to spend time and effort soaking it.