How to Make Crunchy Pickles

How to Make Crunchy Pickles

Persian cucumbers are perfect for pickling.  Here’s an easy way to pickle your cucumbers.

pickling cucumbers

How to Make Crunchy Pickles

Servings 2 quarts

Ingredients
  

  • 2 mason jars or old pickle jars
  • 10 small persian cucumbers
  • 1 tablespoon garlic roughly chopped
  • 1 tablespoon whole peppercorns
  • 4 bay leaves
  • 2 fresh dill head fronds
  • 2 teaspoons loose leaf black tea leaves

Brine

  • 2 Tbsp salt
  • 4 cups water
  • 1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar

Instructions
 

  • Divide the ingredients equally for the two jars. Add the cucumbers to the jars and add in the garlic, peppercorns, bay leaves, fresh dill and tea leaves.
  • Make the brine and pour into the mason jars, covering the pickles completely.
  • Weigh the cucumbers down by using a clean rock, a small ramekin or any other thing you can find in your house. I used a plastic lid and then put a glass ramekin on top of that to hold them down. It's important for them to stay submerged under the brine or they will mold.
  • Seal with a lid or cover with a cloth to keep bugs out.
  • After 4-5 days, check a cucumber to see if its ready.
  • The pickles are ready when the brine turns cloudy, the cucumbers turn a yellow/olive green.

Notes

Recipe from Fermented Food Lab.
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