Kitchen appliances and utensils
- hob
- stewpan,
- knife,
- cutting board,
- beaker.
Ingredients
- Cucumbers - 4 pcs.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Sugar - 1 tsp.
- Salt - 1 tsp.
- Mustard - 2 tbsp. l
- Bay leaf - 1 pc.
- Black peppercorns - 5 amount
- Vinegar - 3 tbsp. l
- Vegetable oil –75 ml
Step cooking
- Take 4 fresh cucumbers, wash and remove the stalks.
- Peel the cucumbers with a knife for peeling vegetables, leaving strips of peeled skin. Cut each cucumber into 8 equal strips.
- Put chopped cucumbers in a stewpan or pan with a thick bottom. Peel a small onion, cut it into half rings 5-7 mm thick.
- Add the onions to the cucumbers. Next add 1 tsp to the stewpan. sugar, 1 tsp. salt, 1 bay leaf and 5 peas of black pepper. Pour in 3 tbsp. l vinegar, 75 ml of vegetable oil and add 2 tbsp. l mustard.
- Mix everything and place on the stove.
- Stir occasionally, bring the cucumbers to a boil. Boil until the cucumbers change color. After all the cucumbers have changed color, the dish is ready.
- Cool the cucumbers and let them stand in the refrigerator for 12-24 hours.
Cooking recommendations
- To prepare cucumbers in such ways, choose elastic fruits of bright green color.
- For cooking, you can use suvid. This technique will cook cucumbers more delicately and will not stain dishes.
- To give the cucumbers a brighter flavor, add chopped dill or parsley to them. You can also add chopped garlic or pepper.
- Cucumbers prepared in this way are ready for use immediately after cooling completely. But after 12-24 hours, their taste becomes brighter.
- Serve such cucumbers as a separate appetizer for meat and fish dishes or as an addition to salads or sandwiches.
Video recipe
In the step-by-step video recipe, you can see all the processes of cooking cucumbers with mustard.