Cucumber Pickle Recipe (Acar Timun)

Ingredients

  • Cucumber – 1 piece

  • Garlic (sliced thinly and sun for an hour) – 50 grams

  • Turmeric (sliced and sunned for an hour) – 50 grams

  • Sugar – 3 tablespoons

  • Green chilies (seeded and cut into 6 pieces) – 3 pieces

  • Red chilies (seeded and cut into 6 pieces) – 3 pieces

  • Cooking oil – 3 tablespoons

  • Vinegar – 100 ml

  • Water -100 ml

  • salt to taste

Method

  • Clean and remove core but do not peel skin. Cut cucumber into 1 inch sticks then season with 1     teaspoon of salt, drain and sun for an hour.

  • Heat 3 tablespoons of cooking oil in a pan then stir-fry turmeric until the oil become yellow. Remove turmeric and cool the oil.

  • Add vinegar, salt sugar and water, mix well and let it cool completely.

  • Mix the sun-dried cucumber, garlic, red and green chilies with the pickle solution in a glass jar and make sure all ingredients submerged completely in the solution.

  • Consume after 2 days of pickling.

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