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Friday, December 27, 2013

Even more pickled recipes..


Pickled garlic in olive oil with oregano

3 pieces of garlic bulb
olive oil
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon oregano

1.     Peel garlic. Cut off the core and dark spots.

2.     Fill a screw top glass with the garlic cloves.

3.     Cover the cloves with olive oil. Add salt and oregano and stir.

4.     Fill a small pot with water. Put in the glass filled with garlic and oil with the lid on and let it simmer for about 10min. The water in the pot should only reach approx. 1 under the glass brim.

5.     Close the glasss lid tightly and let it cool down.

6.     Let it steep for a couple of days, shake every now and then, so everything can spread out evenly.

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Pickled garlic in olive oil with oregano



Dried tomatoes in olive oil with honey and lavender

dried tomatoes
a little salt
olive oil
1 tablespoon dried lavender bloom
1-2 tablespoon liquid honey

1.     Fill a screw top glass with dried tomatoes and cover them with olive oil.

2.     Add salt, lavender bloom and honey and stir.

3.     Fill a small pot with water and put in the glass filled with tomatoes and oil with the lid on. Make the water boil and then let it simmer for about 10min. The water in the pot should only reach approx. 1 under the glass brim.

4.     Close the glasss lid tightly and let it cool down.

5.     Let it steep for a couple of days, shake every now and then, so everything can spread out evenly.

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Pickled chili and dried tomatoes in olive oil




Pickled chili with pink pepper berries

different types of chili (Jalapeño, Habanero, etc)
pink pepper berries
0.4 cups of white wine vinegar
0.2 cups of balsamic vinegar
0.4 cups of water
salt
2 tablespoons of liquid honey


1.     Cut off the chili stems.

2.     Fill Chilis into clean screw top glasses.

3.     Boil water with vinegar, balsamic, honey and pepper berries.

4.     Fill the boiling hot brew up to the top of the glasses.

5.     Hit glasses on the table every now and then, so the air bubbles can get out.

6.     Put the lid on and put them upside down to cool down.

The chilis will last for around a year.



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Pickled recipes..


The following recipes are tossed together from the internet. I tried to reproduce the methods one-to-one, on how to make pickled vegetables, but the spices and other ingredients I chose freely, mostly based on what I had at home. Basically its about wether it tastes good or not.

 
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Pickled hot chili,
Cherry tomatoes with thyme,
Shallots in balsamic and Herbs de Provence




Shallots in balsamic and Herbs de Provence



1.1 Ibs shallots

5 oz olive oil

1.7 oz brown cane sugar

6 oz balsamic

salt

black pepper

Herbs de Provence



1.     Peel the shallots.


2.     Sauté all shallots in oil and then caramelize them with sugar; Deglaze with balsamic;  Let shallots steam (not too soft).


3.     Season to taste with salt, pepper and Herbs de Provence.


4.     Fill them still hot into screw top glass and let infuse for 2 weeks.



The shallots last for about a year.




Dried tomatoes in balsamic with Herbs de Provence



Due to having enough of the oil-balsamic-mix left over, I just heated up dried tomatoes within and still hot put it in a screw top glass.


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Cherry tomatoes with thyme



1.1 Ibs ripe, but firm cherry tomatoes

1 bunch of thyme

1-2 tablespoons salt, optional

1 tablespoon sugar

water





1.     For the tomatoes not to burst while they cook, broach the washed and hulled tomatoes 4-5 times with a needle.


2.     Wash fresh thyme and shake dry. Layer tomatoes and thyme evenly into the glasses and add around 1/2 tablespoon salt and a little sugar.


3.     Fill glasses up to 1 under the brim with water. The glasses should be the same size, so there wont be any problems while boiling down.


4.     Close glasses tightly and put in a big pot. The glasses shouldnt have direct contact to the bottom of the pot. For example out the glasses on a kitchen towel.


5.     Fill the pot until short under the glass top with cold water and slowly boil.


6.     As soon as the water starts seething, let covered tomatoes boil down for at least 45 minutes.


7.     Let glasses cool down in the pot.





Stored cool and dark the tomatoes will last for about 6 months.




Pickled hot chili



1.1 Ibs chili

3.5 oz onions, cut in stripes

1 cup white wine vinegar

1/4 cup water

1.2 oz sugar

1 pack preserving aid

salt

whole black peppercorn



1.     Let washed chilis, onions and peppercorn cook in vinegar-sugar-mix for 2-3 minutes.

2.     Take pot from stove and stir in 1 pack

3.     Fill hot contents in screw top glasses up to the brim and close immediately.

4.     Turn glasses upside down to cool down.




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