9 Ways to Use Cucumber Pickle

Cucumber pickle can serve as a salad dressing, a marinade for meat and seafood, or the basis for a delicious pie... Read on - 9 interesting ideas for using cucumber pickle.

Use as a marinade

To add juiciness and tenderness to the meat, it needs to be marinated. Cucumber pickle has an ideal composition to improve the taste of the following products:

• lean pork;
• chicken and turkey;
• fish;
• shrimp.

All you need to do is immerse the raw workpiece completely in the marinade. You can optionally add spices, garlic, onion rings, or use pure brine. Soaked meat or fish are well suited for baking, frying, or grilling. The duration of marinating ranges from 30 minutes to 8 hours. The exact time depends on the weight - for example, a chicken weighing 2.5 kg will marinate for 2.5 hours.

Budget brine cookies

For many, this recipe will bring back pleasant memories from childhood. In the 90s, brine cookies were baked in almost every home. All the ingredients are inexpensive, and the taste of the baked goods is quite good.

Cooking algorithm:

1. Mix sugar, cucumber liquid and vegetable oil (1 cup each) in a bowl.
2. Add 1 teaspoon of soda.
3. Pour in 3 cups of sifted flour (add 1 more cup if necessary).
4. Knead the dough.
5. Roll it out into a layer 1 cm thick and cut the cookies into any shape.
6. Place in a preheated oven and bake for 10-15 minutes at 200 degrees.

Cucumber pickle restores the water-salt balance in the body. It speeds up metabolism and stimulates appetite. Just 50 ml of the drink helps prevent dehydration during intense training. If you drink it in small sips, hiccups go away. The spicy-salty liquid is useful for women to drink during menstruation to reduce the loss of minerals and improve well-being.

Cucumber brine for boiling potatoes

Without a doubt, boiled and fluffy mashed potatoes are very tasty! But sometimes you need to boil potatoes for a salad - for example, Olivier salad. Then the softness and loose structure become more of a minus than a plus. The potatoes crumble and cannot be cut into even cubes. In such a situation, cucumber pickle will help out! You need to add 100 ml per 1 liter of water, then the potatoes will be elastic after boiling.

Delicious pie recipe

Cucumber brine with vinegar makes a wonderful sponge cake - tender, fluffy and at the same time very inexpensive.

Prepare according to the following instructions:

1. Mix 1 cup brine and 1 cup sugar in a bowl.
2. Add 3 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil and vanillin.
3. Sift flour into a separate container and add 1 teaspoon of soda.
4. Pour the liquid part into the flour and mix the mixture with a spoon.
5. Add candied fruits, nuts, raisins to taste.
6. Bake in a greased pan for 40 minutes at 170 degrees.

Making salad dressing

Cucumber brine can serve as a dressing for vegetable salads, such as “Spring”. It’s very easy to make – just mix 3 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil, 2 teaspoons of cucumber liquid, add spices to taste and mix vigorously.

In its pure form, cucumber pickle can be consumed no more than 200 ml per day. Exceeding this dose can lead to swelling and heartburn. The drink should be consumed with caution by people with chronic gastritis and ulcers, hypertension, atherosclerosis, cholecystitis, and urolithiasis.

Cucumber pickle in okroshka

There are many recipes for this wonderful summer dish. But okroshka with cucumber brine is especially good in hot weather. Pleasant sourness, the taste of garlic and bay leaves give it a special piquancy. Recommended proportions with boiled water are 1 part brine and 3 parts water.

Brine helps freshen yesterday's pasta

Another option for using cucumber brine is to reheat pasta. Cooked 1-2 days ago, they no longer have the same taste and do not stimulate the appetite. The sourish, spicy liquid radically changes things. Simply pour 100ml of brine into a small saucepan with the pasta and heat, covered, for 7-10 minutes.

What if you add it to soup?

The liquid left over from the pickles can be used to make winter soups. Borscht and cabbage soup will noticeably benefit in taste when adding brine. And it’s completely unthinkable to cook hodgepodge and rassolnik without this important ingredient!

The brine is stored in the refrigerator for an average of 7 days. If its expiration date expires and there is no suitable use for it, you can freeze the liquid. In this form, it is suitable not only for cooking, but also for cosmetic purposes.You can wipe your face with ice cubes to soften and brighten your skin. Or throw them in hot water and make a foot bath to quickly relieve fatigue and muscle tension at the end of the working day.

Let's make a stew

When preparing a stew, after roasting the vegetables, it is time to add the braising liquid. But ordinary water is tasteless, so many people add tomato paste or sauerkraut to the dish, which adds sourness. But cucumber pickle enriches the stew much better! It is recommended to add it diluted with water in half. In this case, there is no need to use additional salt.

In the old days, brine from cucumbers, as well as others (from tomatoes, sauerkraut, pickled apples, watermelons), was always served with meat and vegetable dishes. It was believed that the spicy liquid nourishes the body with useful substances and tones. Of course, brine with a minimum of salt is better for drinking. And if you are reluctant to drink the drink in its pure form, there are many ways to use it in dishes. Finally, another reason why you don’t need to pour out the cucumber pickle is the possibility of using it for cosmetic purposes.