A step-by-step recipe for a salad of pickled cucumbers and onions: a list of ingredients and cooking technology. Video recipes.
Pickled cucumbers are a traditional dish of German and Slavic cuisine. They are prepared in a special brine with salt and spices. Very often they are added to pizza, hodgepodge, pickle, salads and some sauces. Sometimes they are served whole without any processing as a separate dish. However, you can make this product even tastier and healthier by preparing a salad of pickled cucumbers with onions.
For this simple dish, you can use store-bought cucumbers or cook them yourself according to your favorite recipe. The most delicious are crunchy small fruits with thin skin and dense pulp. Large cucumbers are often soft and have voids inside.
The second important ingredient in this dish is onions. It is subject to special processing, which allows you to remove bitterness from it, make it sweeter, slightly suppress the aroma and preserve the maximum of useful substances. Due to this, the ready-made food will appeal to both adults and children.
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- Caloric content per 100 g - 76 kcal.
- Servings - 3
- Cooking time - 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- Pickled cucumbers - 500 g
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Water - 100 ml
- Sugar - 1 tablespoon
- Vinegar - 1 tablespoon
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons
Step-by-step preparation of pickled cucumber and onion salad
1. From the surface of the onion, remove the outer dry scales, cut the inner snow-white filmy pulp into strips or half rings. Before mixing this ingredient with cucumbers, it must be processed. To do this, pour the chopped vegetable with boiling water, add sugar and vinegar, mix. In this form, you need to leave for 15 minutes.
2. While the onion is pickled, chop the cucumbers. Their shape can be any - flat circles or thin sticks. It is not necessary to grind the product thoroughly, so that the salad does not turn into a mass for the sauce.
3. Drain the marinade from the onion mass, place it on a strainer and rinse once with cold water. Add the onion to the salted cucumbers of the salad after all the excess moisture has drained from it.
4. We fill the cucumber-onion mass with vegetable oil, although it can also be replaced with olive oil, in order to give the finished dish a bright aroma and saturate it with a large amount of useful substances. Add chopped fresh parsley if desired and mix thoroughly. Leave for 5-10 minutes to mix aromas and flavors and then spread on a suitable dish.
5. Pickled cucumber salad with onions is ready! It perfectly suits the everyday menu, although it may well be one of the dishes on the festive table. This dish goes well with mashed potatoes or pilaf.
See also video recipes:
1. Salad from pickled cucumbers, it couldn't be easier
2. How to make a salad of pickled cucumbers and onions
