Very crispy: Hungarian pickled cucumbers with dry mustard and garlic

If you want to make delicious, crispy pickled cucumbers, cooks advise adding dry mustard, spices, garlic, and currant leaves.

The cook shared a recipe for delicious pickled cucumbers with dry mustard, allspice, and cloves on Instagram.

Ingredients:

• 5 kg of small cucumbers, ideally gherkins
• garlic, bay leaf, black and allspice, cloves, dry mustard seeds

For the marinade:

• 3.5 liters of water
• 0.5 liters of vinegar 9%
• 600 g of sugar
• 100 g of salt

Method of preparation:

1. Wash the cucumbers and soak in cool water for 2-3 hours.

2. Put 1 clove of garlic, 1 bay leaf, 1 clove (optional), a few peas of black and allspice, and 1 tsp of mustard seeds into clean 0.5-1 liter jars.

3. Fill the jars tightly with cucumbers. Add salt, sugar, vinegar to the water and bring to a boil. Pour the hot marinade into the jars and close the lids.

4. Place a cotton napkin or towel on the bottom of a wide saucepan. Set the jars, pour water into the pan. Put on the fire and bring the water in the pot with the jars to a boil. Sterilize the cucumbers for 5-7 minutes.

5. After that, remove the jars, seal them tightly, turn them upside down and wrap them in a warm blanket until they cool completely.

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