Preserves and pickles
How to Make Kabis (Pickled Cucumbers)
Kabis (pickled cucumbers) — here is an authentic recipe. This version does not use vinegar, though many recipes do. Important: store the pickles in tightly sealed, sterilized jars. This pickle is very delicious and well known.
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How to make kabis (pickled cucumbers) — a successful pickle. No vinegar is used in this recipe, though many other recipes rely on vinegar.
Ingredients
- Small Shamsi cucumbers (small pickling cucumbers)
- Garlic — optional
- Hot red pepper — optional
- Sugar
- Boiling water
- Coarse salt
- Note: For each cup of coarse salt, use ten cups of water. Boil them well and pour directly over the cucumbers.
- Note:
- For successful pickling, use jars with new lids or pressure-seal jars to ensure they stay tightly closed.
- The water must be boiling and poured in immediately to ensure sterilization and prevent the cucumbers from developing mold. This helps the pickles remain high quality for about two years.
- Successful pickled cucumber (kabis) recipe from a friend and site cook
- Fatima Souli
- Click Fatima's name to visit her personal page
- For a pickled cucumber recipe that uses vinegar, click this link: How to make pickled cucumbers with vinegar
- Check out how to make red pepper paste
Method
- Wash the cucumbers well and place them in a colander, then make a slit in each cucumber on one side with a knife to help the water enter and to prevent the cucumbers from wrinkling after pickling.
- Put the cucumbers into the jars and place in each jar a clove of garlic and a small red hot chili pepper.
- After filling the jars, sprinkle half a teaspoon of sugar over the top of each jar, then add boiling water with coarse salt directly from the stove into the jars so that the water covers the cucumbers.
- Close the jar tightly so it remains sealed and sterilized; this preserves it for a long time and prevents spoilage from air entering.
- Successful Kabis (pickled cucumbers) recipe from a friend and the site's cook
- Fatima Souli
- Click on Fatima's name to visit her personal page
- For a pickled cucumber recipe made with vinegar, click this link: How to Make Kabis Pickled Cucumbers with Vinegar
- Check out the recipe for red pepper molasses
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- How to make pickled cucumbers with vinegar
- red pepper paste






