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.

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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

Soak Time: 30

Total Time: 40

Servings: 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...

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