How to make simple pickles to relieve the feeling of fullness during Tet

1. Ingredients for making pickles

Cucumber: 3 fruits
Carrot: 1 root
Fresh chili: 2 fruits
Lemon: 2 fruits
Garlic: 1 bulb
Roasted peanuts: a little
Seasoning: seasoning powder, sugar, fish sauce, MSG...
Basil, coriander

donation 2.jpg — Ingredients for making pickles (Photo: VietQ)

2. How to make simple pickles

Step 1: Prepare ingredients

Wash cucumbers, soak in diluted salt water for 5-10 minutes and drain. Then, cut diagonally into pieces about 0.3cm thick.

If you want the cucumber slices to be more beautiful, you can peel them, making straight lines with a gap between each line.

Peel the garlic, wash and chop it. Wash the chili and chop it. Squeeze the lemon for juice.

Peel carrots, cut into thin round pieces. Pick and wash basil and coriander, then cut into 1cm pieces. Peel and crush roasted peanuts.

Step 2 : Mix spices

Put the sliced cucumber and carrots in a bowl. Next, add 1 teaspoon of salt, 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, 2 tablespoons of sugar and stir well, let it sit for 5 minutes to absorb the spices.

Then add lemon juice, minced garlic and minced chili to the bowl and mix well.

Step 3 : Finish

After the cucumbers and carrots have absorbed enough spices, are soft, and have a sweet and sour taste, sprinkle basil, coriander, and a little roasted peanuts on top, stir well, take them out on a plate, and enjoy. You will immediately feel the irresistible crunchy taste of the dish.

donation 1.jpg — Pickled vegetables to relieve the feeling of fullness during Tet. Photo: thoidaiplus.suckhoedoisong.vn

3. Notes when making pickles

To make pickles, you should choose to buy fresh ingredients.

You should choose cucumbers that are bright green, evenly colored, without bruises or yellow stains because this is a sign that the cucumber has been left for a long time and is starting to spoil.

Fresh and delicious cucumbers are oblong, of uniform size, feel firm when held, have smooth skin, and are free of bumps.

Avoid buying melons that are bulging, large in the middle, or have a large head and small tail because these are old melons with many seeds, are hard, and not tasty.

Be sure to remove the lemon seeds carefully so the pickled dish is not bitter.

During the mixing process, do not stir too much with chopsticks or the melon will become mushy.

If you want the pickles to stay crispy and delicious, make them when you're about to eat them, because if you leave them too long, they will release a lot of water and won't be crispy anymore.

Do not mix herbs with fish sauce at the same time, it will lose the aroma of herbs and fish sauce, sugar will make herbs mushy and discolored.

If you don't finish eating it all, you can put it in a sealed container and store it in the refrigerator. But you should eat it right away so that the pickles don't ferment too much.

In addition to cucumbers, pickles are also made from many other ingredients, such as: pickles made from kohlrabi, papaya, carrots, mixed vegetables... These types of pickles are all delicious and easy to make.

Pickles go well with anything. However, pickles are often eaten with fried dishes such as fried spring rolls, fried meat, grilled meat; cakes such as pancakes, rice paper... to help balance the taste, avoid boredom and are very delicious.

Above, VietNamNet has instructed you how to make sweet and sour pickled cucumbers, crispy and delicious, attractive for family meals. Hope you will successfully make this dish!

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