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Quick-pickled cucumbers with rice vinegar

  • Serves: 16
  • Time: 20 min
  • Date added: 2023-09-26

Ingredients

  • 1 cup rice wine vinegar
  • 1 cup water
  • .75 cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon kosher salt
  • 4 cups thinly sliced Japanese or English cucumbers (about 3 Japanese or 1 English)

Directions

  1. Combine vinegar, water, sugar, and salt in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. Remove from heat. Add cucumber slices and stir. Cover with a clean kitchen towel or a double layer of heavy duty paper towels, pressing down until towel is saturated with liquid and in direct contact with the cucumbers. Let rest 10 minutes, then transfer cucumbers to a sealable container. Top up with liquid and discard the rest. Store in the refrigerator for up to 1 month.

Notes

  • Comments recommend reducing sugar by a lot (to 4 Tbsp?)

Source

Serious Eats

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