Five-star hotels sell 38 servings of secret pickled cucumbers, sweet and sour, slightly spicy and crispy, teach you how to do it
The hot weather in summer is especially likely to cause our appetite to deteriorate and lose our appetite, especially after entering the dog days, we can't bring up any appetite at every meal time. The editor is also like this recently. I often worry about what to eat at every meal time, so I often cook some appetizing side dishes for my family during this time.
This pickled cucumber is an appetizer that my family often eats recently. Cucumbers in summer are when a large number of cucumbers are on the market, so the price is also very cheap. The price of our local cucumbers is basically between 1-2 yuan, which can be said to be on the market now. The cheapest vegetables. Speaking of pickled cucumbers, I believe many of my friends have eaten them. The pickled cucumbers sold in restaurants are crispy, sweet and slightly spicy. They are very appetizing, but I don’t know what they are made of.
I learned the pickled cucumbers from a chef in a five-star hotel. This pickled cucumber is also a signature dish in the hotel, with an average daily sales of more than 100 servings, which can be said to be very popular. In fact, the seemingly complicated pickled cucumbers are not as difficult as we imagined, and there is no need to add too many seasonings. You only need to add a few seasonings that are commonly used at home. The key is to master the ratio between several seasonings. .
The following editor will share with you the practice of the secret pickled cucumber in the hotel.
【Secret Pickled Cucumber】
Prepare ingredients: cucumber, garlic, spicy millet, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, salt.
Practice steps:
- After washing the cucumber, remove the head and tail, and cut it into slices or strips. If you want a particularly crunchy texture, you can cut the cucumber into strips and remove the middle flesh.
We used 1000 grams of cucumber here, and then prepared 30 grams of garlic slices and 30 grams of spicy millet. If you like spicy food, you can add spicy millet according to your own taste.
Sprinkle about 20 grams of salt into the cut cucumbers, stir evenly, and kill the water for the cucumbers. The time for killing the water is about 2 hours, and the excess water in the cucumbers is killed, so that it can be more easily marinated. Quick and tasty.
When the cucumber kills water, let’s make a sauce, prepare a suitable container, add 200 grams of vinegar, 200 grams of soy sauce, and 100 grams of sugar, stir well with a spoon, and dilute the sugar. To make this pickled cucumber, we only used three seasonings: raw soy sauce, mature vinegar and sugar, but we must master the ratio. The ratio of raw soy sauce, mature vinegar and sugar is 2:2:1.
After the cucumber comes out of the water, be sure to squeeze the water dry, so that the cucumber can absorb the juice faster and taste faster.
Finally, put the squeezed cucumbers into the prepared sauce, then add the chopped garlic slices and millet hot rings, and stir evenly with chopsticks so that the sauce does not cover the cucumbers.
Cover the lid or wrap with plastic wrap, put it in the refrigerator and marinate for more than 3 hours before eating. The longer the marinating time, the more delicious it will be.
The juice of pickled cucumbers can be used 2-3 times, and some seasonings can be added in proportion before each use.
In the summer, when the weather is hot and you have no appetite, serve a plate of such pickled cucumbers to ensure that your family loves them.