Quick Pickled Cucumbers

Isn’t there something better than pickled cucumbers on side of your dish or in your salad? And what if I tell you there’s a way to pickle cucumbers easily and quickly? Would you resist?? Learn how to make these easiest and quick pickled cucumbers today and have them with your next lunch!

If you love pickles then you are going to love this recipe. There surely isn’t anything easiest than these simple, quick, but delicious pickled cucumbers!

And that the best part? You need only 5 ingredients to make these easy pickled cucumbers! Yes, you hear well. Only 5 ingredients: cucumbers, water, salt, sugar, and vinegar. I will get to that later so you know exactly what you need.

Speaking the truth, it was my boyfriend who made these delicious easy pickled cucumbers. He found the most delicious and super cheap Lebanese and qukes and brought back home a good few kilos of these tiny little cucumbers. Then He came up with some exciting recipes and ideas how to prepare the cucumbers. And we love pickled foods, so why not to make pickled cucumbers?

If you love pikled fruit and vegetables, check out these recipes:

• Easy Pickled Red Cabbage
• Pickled Beetroot (Vegan and Gluten-Free)
• The Easiest Fermented Red Onion

How To Use And Serve Quick Pickled Cucumbers?

What I specially love about these quick pickled cucumbers is how versatile they are and how you can serve them with almost everything! A few ideas that run in my head:

• Buddha bowls
• Salads
• Tacos
• Nachos
• Pulled Jackfruit Sandwiches
• Simple Toasts
• On mock cheese boards
• Canapés
• Just like that when you crave savoury and pickled foods!

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What do you need?

I used little qukes cucumbers that are basically little baby Lebanese cucumbers. They are crispy, crunchy, juicy, and full of flavour. Because they are this small they have a perfect snacking size. If you find yourself having some nighttime cravings, grab some qukes cucumbers and help yourself!

Lebanese cucumbers are suitable for this recipe as well. They are amazing for pickling because they don’t have any annoying seeds or they are almost seedless. They are mild, with a bumpy and ridged skin.

Choose whichever cucucumber is available in your store, the both types are nice and suitable for picking.

You need classic white (cane) sugar, water, kosher salt or pink Himalayan salt, and white vinegar. Instead of white vinegar, you can use apple cider vinegar. Easy, eh??

To slice these cucumbers nicely and thinly, it’s recommended to use a mandoline slicer. If you don’t have one, replace it with a very sharp, chef knife. Be very careful when slicing the cucumbers and watch out not to hurt yourself!

If you don’t want to slice the cucumbers, pickle them as a whole. I only found out that when sliced they fit better in a jar and they are of a better use. But the choice is yours!

If you like cucumbers, but prefer not to pickle them, here are some more recipes using cuucmbers:

• Refreshing Cucumber Lemonade
• Raw Cucumber Sushi
• Vegan Bibimbap With Crispy Tofu
• Vegan Rainbow Sushi
• Cucumber And Watermelon Lemonade

Quick Pickled Cucumbers

The easiest and quickest pickled cucumbers are fantastic when you have savoury cravings! They are so easy and you need only 5 ingredients. They taste fantastic in salads, sandwiches, toasts, on tacos and nachos… They are naturally vegan and gluten-free.

4.67 from 3 votes

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Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: American, Asian, European, Korean

Keyword: 5 Ingredients, brine, cucumbers, easy, pickled, pickles, quick, vinegar brine

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Soak Time: 30 minutes minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes minutes

Servings: 1 jar

Calories: 155.7kcal

Equipment

• Mandoline slicer or a very sharp chef knife
• Clean jars (about 300-400 ml each)

Ingredients

• 250 g qukes or Lebanese cucumbers thinly sliced, with the skin on
• 1/2 cup distilled water
• 1/2 cup white or apple cider vinegar
• 2 tbsp white granulated sugar
• 2 tsp kosher or pink Himalayan salt

Instructions

• In a small bowl, mix together water, vinegar, sugar, and salt. Stir until all sugar and salt are entirely dissolved. This is your brine.
• Place the sliced cucumbers in a jar and with the back of a fork press them to the bottom of the jar. Pour the brine over the cucumbers in the jar. Make sure the cucumbers are fully covered with brine.
• Let it sin for at least 30 minutes before eating.
• Serve in, on salads, sandwiches, toasts, on tacos, nachos, tortillas, wraps…

Nutrition

Serving: 1jar | Sodium: 4723mg | Calcium: 50.3mg | Vitamin C: 7mg | Vitamin A: 262.5IU | Sugar: 29.2g | Fiber: 2.9g | Potassium: 371.4mg | Calories: 155.7kcal | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Saturated Fat: 0.3g | Fat: 0.3g | Protein: 1.6g | Carbohydrates: 31g | Iron: 0.8mg

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Klara Walterova

Klara is a professional freelance writer for hire. She offers web content, blog posting, ghostwriting and copywriting. She writes for a healthy lifestyle, wellness and travel websites. She focuses on veganism and the vegan diet. When she's not writing, she develops new tasty vegan recipes, travels the world or plays with her cats. Please contact her for her online writing services on her website writtenbyvegan.com or visit her Instagram profile @writtenbyvegan.