How to Pickle Gherkins, Pickled Cucumber Recipe - Быстрые малосольные огурцы

Hi guys, welcome to my channel Alla's Yummy Food. Today I'm actually doing a very quick video for you guys and it's a Russian entree, very very popular in Russia, in Latvia, all over Eastern Europe and we usually eat this before the main course with a shot of vodka. It's Russian pickled gherkins. These will be half salted and they're done in one day so very quick and you can just serve them the next day straight away. Okay, I've got all my ingredients ready. Now this is my grandma's recipe and salted gherkins generally have so many different variations. You can add a bit more salt, add a bit less, use different spices, but I'll show you mine. The gherkins are very crunchy and very good. So let's get started. The jars you have in the house, this is about two and a half liters. So the first thing we need to do is put chunks of dill at the very bottom. A little clove of garlic. That's just to cover the bottom and now we just start putting our gherkins inside there. I've filled my jar with my yummy cucumbers and it's very important to know that you have to use hot water instead of cold to fill the jar because it will make the cucumbers get ready a lot faster and also it will melt the sugar and salt so it will just get around the whole jar into your cucumbers and make them taste really really good. For every litre of water I'm going to be using 2 tablespoons of salt. I'm using large sea salt. And one teaspoon of sugar. I'm just gonna give this a mix. Make sure it's dissolved. And we just pour this into the jar. See, it'll steam up and you'll see that the cucumbers get really beautiful green color. Close the jar, leave it. Exactly 24 hours and my cucumbers have changed... Well, the water has changed the color, you can see it's not as clear anymore. And when we open, you should have like a beautiful... Oh, that really, really nice smell. I'm going to use my finger and get one out just to show you the dill, just like that. You see, it's beautiful. Mmm, so crunchy and lovely. Okay, so this is Russian entree, and what you do in Latvia is you take a shot of vodka in one hand, and then a piece of gherkin in the other hand, and you down a shot, and then you bite a... And you say Na Zdorovie, which means cheers, or Priekā in Latvian, which means as well cheers. So cheers guys! Great! See you all next Sunday! Bye!