Salted crispy cucumbers - decoration of any table. And this is an indispensable component of many dishes and salads. And after the cucumbers were eaten, a brine remains, which many mistresses pour. And quite in vain do it. Cucumber brine is a very useful product rich in various trace elements and vitamins.
1. Re-seas
Pickled in brine beet.
The brine remaining after the pickles can be used to re-singing various vegetables and fruits, such as carrots, beets, onions, garlic, avocado. Vegetables are carefully clean, purified, cut by slices, poured brine and leave in the refrigerator. For a few days they grumble and become an excellent snack to dinner.
2. The basis of marinades
Marinated eggs are an excellent snack for all occasions.
Cucumber brine can be used to prepare marinades, for example, for ginger. An excellent addition to the table will be pickled eggs. This original snack is preparing very simple:
• Eggs boiled screwed, cooled and cleaned;
• black and fragrant pepper, mustard grains, coriander, carnation or any other spices in their taste are added to the brine;
• the mixture is adjusted to a boil, reduce the fire and boil five minutes;
• Purified eggs are folded into the jar and poured with warm marinade;
• After cooling, the jar is cleaned into the refrigerator.
Eggs are marked 2-3 days, but it is better to stand a little longer. They can be prepared in different colors, if adding beets, turmeric, red cabbage in marinade.
An interesting fact from novate.ru: Who invented so to cook the eggs are not known. But it is assumed that the idea of Marination came from Western Europe and is known since the 1700s. In those days, it originated as a way as long as possible to keep eggs suitable for use (with a hydrochloric solution). Over time, recipes were modified and today marinated eggs are a very popular snack in the Bars of America and the UK.
3. Cooking meat
Marinization in the brine makes meat especially tasty and soft.
Cucumber brine is a wonderful means for softening meat. It becomes soft and gentle, you can fry, bake, cook on the grill. The brine is perfect for marinating pork chops, beef steaks, chicken, turkey and any other types of meat.
4. Ingredient for cooking dishes
Bread, mixed in brine, tasty and fragrant.
Cucumber brine can be used as a liquid ingredient when mixing the dough on bread, pies, pancakes, pancakes, dumplings, dumplings and other flour dishes. Such baking will be very tasty and fragrant. In general, the methods of using brine in cooking mass. It is used when preparing soups and bridins, as well as various gravy, sauces and refueling to salads. More brine can be frozen in molds for ice and then add to cocktails from vegetable juices.
5. Preparation of potatoes
Adding brine in the water will give boiled potatoes spicy taste.
Just boil potatoes in salty water it is so trite. But if adding brine in boiling water, tubers will get a pleasant aroma and taste. When cooking Potatoes, free, you can try to pre-dock it in the brine, the dish will definitely become more interesting for the taste.
6. Drink to restore electrolytic balance
After classes in the gym, the brine will help to cheer up.
On the property of the cucumber brine, almost everything knows the hanging syndrome. In addition, it can be drunk after classes in the gym, if there is no isotonic drink. During training, the body loses many salts emerging along with the sweat and the brine is a great tool to restore the electrolytic balance. It is more effective than ordinary water and also facilitates pain in the muscles after intense exercise. This is explained by the fact that the brine contains vinegar, and it suppresses the nerve signals that cause a convulsive reduction in overpriced muscles.
Useful advice: if tormented heartburn, brine will help to stop unpleasant sensations. But it should be remembered that this is not therapeutic agent and if the bouts of heartburn happen often, it is necessary to consult a doctor.
7. Aromatic oil
Oil with brine and dill - delicious and fragrant spreads on sandwiches.
The usual creamy oil mixed by various additives becomes much more interesting for the taste. The additives are the various components, including it is possible to experiment with cucumber brine. At the half of the unsolved softened high quality oil add:
• tablespoon of brine room temperature;
• Spices - dried and marinated dill (from brine), crushed garlic, ground coriander, black pepper, mustard and other seasonings to their taste.
All ingredients are mixed using a mixer, shifted into the container and stored in the refrigerator.
8. Marine cheese
Why not try to pick up cheese in a cucumber brine.
Marinated cheese is a tasty fragrant product that will decorate any table and become a spicy addition when cooking salads or sandwiches. The recipes on the Internet are many - for every taste, and you can marinate not only soft varieties, such as mozzarella, cheese, feta, but also solid cheeses. The use of cucumber pickle as the marinade ingredient will help get a beautiful snack with spicy taste.
9. Verida substitute
Cucumber marinade is a good alternative to vinegar.
If recipes require the use of vinegar, try to replace it with a cucumber brine. It is as sour, because it contains vinegar, and besides enriched with useful trace elements.
10. Cleaning kitchen utensils
The brine will help clean the kettle from scale.
If there is no desire to use brine in food, it can be used as a cleaning agent. If you pour it into an blackened aluminum saucepan and leave for a couple of hours, the container will easily be cleaned of black. Brine is also good to remove scale. To do this, it is boiled in the cleaned container for 2-3 hours.