How to cook delicious crispy lightly salted zucchini in a bag: a quick recipe in 5 minutes
Among modern housewives, culinary recipes are especially popular, thanks to which you can quickly and tasty feed your family. And if the dish turns out to be healthy, the recipe will become irreplaceable and will forever live in the hostess’s cookbook.
Today we will look at one of these dishes and learn how to cook it. Meet: crispy lightly salted zucchini in a bag in 5 minutes.
Basic recipe
The peculiarity of the recipe is the speed of preparation of the dish. This won't take much time. You will spend no more than 5-10 minutes on everything. As a result, there will be a wonderful side dish or appetizer on the table that will delight both you and your loved ones.
Consider the classic recipe for lightly salted zucchini in a bag. The portion can be made larger or smaller by increasing or decreasing the weight of the components.
What you will need
To prepare the dish you need:
- 1.5-2 kg of zucchini;
- 1 small bunch of parsley;
- 2 tbsp. l. salt;
- 2 tsp. Sahara;
- 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice;
- 0.5 tsp. ground black pepper.
How to cook
Small, thin-skinned young zucchini is ideal for preparing this dish. Such as in the photo:
Attention! If there are no young vegetables, it doesn’t matter. Mature ones will also do. Only they will first need to be peeled and seeds removed.
We share with you step-by-step cooking instructions:
- Wash the zucchini and cut off the ends.
- Cut the zucchini into circles. Possibly in half rings. Thickness – 3-5 mm.
- Chop the greens with a knife.Parsley will look beautiful if you do not chop it too much, but leave sprigs about 1 cm long.
- Place all chopped ingredients in a bag. You can use either special food bags for pickling and freezing, or regular plastic ones. When marinating, vegetable juice will be released. To prevent it from leaking through the seams, it is advisable to double the marinating bag (insert one bag into the other).
- Add salt, sugar and black pepper to the vegetables. Then squeeze lemon juice inside the bag.
- Tie the bag and mix the contents, distributing it evenly inside.
- Leave the zucchini to lightly salt in the refrigerator for 3-5 hours.
- Remove the bag from the refrigerator and enjoy crispy lightly salted zucchini.
Attention! Experienced housewives advise shaking the bag several times while it is in the refrigerator. This way the zucchini will pickle better and more evenly.
Recipe options
The basic dish has many variations. Let's look at some of them.
With garlic and herbs
In this recipe, additionally add 1 bunch of dill and 5-7 cloves of garlic to the dish. All other ingredients are the same. You can add salt according to the recipe or to taste.
Note. The dish looks impressive if the garlic is cut into thin, medium-sized slices.
Zucchini with a bite
In this 5-minute variation of a quick recipe, vinegar (6-9%) is added instead of lemon juice. It is diluted to a slightly acidic state with water. From spices and spices, add bay leaves - 2-3 pcs., and garlic - 3-5 chopped cloves per serving.
Lightly salted spicy zucchini
The dish differs from the basic recipe in the presence of brine in which the zucchini are lightly salted (in the basic recipe - in their own juice).
The brine is prepared from:
- 0.5 l of water;
- 100 g vinegar 9%;
- 30 g salt;
- 35 g sugar.
The brine components are mixed and brought to a boil. The completely cooled brine is added to the bag with the zucchini. For spices, add a horseradish leaf chopped into small strips - about 20 g. For piquancy, you can add hot capsicum to the dish to taste. Readiness will occur in 6-8 hours.
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Similar recipe with cucumbers
Using a similar technology, in addition to zucchini, you can also prepare cucumbers in a bag.
They are washed, the ends are cut off and cut lengthwise into two or four parts. Put it in a bag. Chopped garlic is also sent there. Dill is the preferred herb. A small bunch is cut and added to the cucumbers. Then the mixture is salted to taste (a little).
These cucumbers will be ready in 1-2 hours.
Conclusion
This recipe for quick cooking of lightly salted crispy zucchini will appeal to many housewives. Its two main ingredients are zucchini and salt. In some versions of the recipe, herbs are added to the dish, in others - garlic, in others - vinegar.
Try all the options and choose the one you like. It will take very little time to prepare. You just need to cut and mix. You'll be done in 5 minutes. Bon appetit!