You can pickle cucumbers in a variety of ways. The Silesian cucumber bites are particularly popular. With the right recipe, this variant can also be made at home.
The Silesian recipe for pickled cucumbers calls for them to be cut into slices
Boil down Silesian cucumber bites
For this treat you need cucumbers or cucumbers. This is slightly shorter than the snake cucumber and also thicker. They also have small, prickly outgrowths that can be easily removed. Other important ingredients are:
- fresh dill
- small shallots
- Mustard and Peppercorns
- salt and sugar
- water and vinegar
When it comes to vinegar, you can also mix balsamic vinegar and wine vinegar.
- a pickle aid for cucumbers
Before you start preparing the pickles, you should sterilize your jars. To do this, boil the jars and lids or place them in the oven at 100 degrees for ten minutes.
- Wash the cucumbers and peel them with a vegetable peeler.
- Remove pressure points and unsightly stains.
- If the core is large, core the cucumbers by scooping out the seeds with a spoon.
- Wash the dill and cut into small bunches.
- Peel the onions and cut them into rings.
- Place the onion rings and all other ingredients, except dill and cucumber, in a saucepan and cook together for about five minutes.
- Take the pot off the stove and let the sauce cool down.
- Meanwhile, slice the prepared cucumbers and place them in the jars with the dill. There should be about 1 cm of space up to the edge.
- Pour the cooled brew into the glasses. The cucumbers must be covered.
- Close the jars and cook them in the preserving machine or in the oven.
In the preserving machine
Here you put the glasses, not too close and pour up to half of the glass of water. Boil the cucumbers at 90 degrees for 30 minutes.
In the oven
Here are the glasses in the fat pan. Pour 2 cm of water and cook for half an hour at 90 degrees.
After the cooking time, let the jars cool down a little in the preserving machine or oven and then place them under a cloth on the worktop to cool down completely.