Pickled Vegetables
About This Recipe
I love pickles and you will be amazed how simple and easy they are to make with great results. Also making your own pickles means you know exactly what has gone into them.
The basic ratio for pickling is said to be 3 parts vinegar, 2 parts sugar, 1 part water and 1/4 part salt. As long as you keep to the golden ratio you can try different types of vinegars, sugars and add herbs, spices or even chili to the pickling brine to spice it up.
For this recipe I had some cabbage and carrots in the fridge and simply sliced the carrot thinly on a mandolin and roughly chopped some cabbage added a small amount of ground black pepper and yuzu juice.
You could also use combinations of different vegetables such as cucumber, peppers, onions, celery, cauliflower, radish, asparagus, beetroot, zucchini or even peeled garlic cloves.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Cabbage roughly chopped
- 1 Medium carrot peeled and sliced thinly
- 190ml Rice wine vinegar
- 125g Sugar
- 65ml Water
- 15g Salt
- 1/2 tsp Lemon or Yuzu juice (optional)
Instructions
- 1
Sterilise your jar and lid by putting them into a pot of water and bringing it to a boil. Remove with a pair of kitchen tongs carefully. Avoid touching the inside of the jar or lid with your fingers once they have been sterilised.
- 2
Using clean kitchen tongs (sterilise the end that will pick up the vegetables by dipping in boiling water) put the prepared vegetables into the sterilised jar
- 3
Put the vinegar, salt, sugar, water (and yuzu/lemon juice if using) into a small pot and heat whilst stirring till all of the sugar and salt has dissolved.
Carefully pour the pickling liquid into the jar until it coves the vegetables and is just below the rim of the jar.
Put the sterilised lid onto the jar and turn till it seals and then leave on counter till jar has cooled to room temperature.
Put in the fridge overnight before eating.
- 4
Pickled vegetables will last a long time if kept in the fridge. But it is best to eat them within a week of first opening the jar as the freshness will deteriorate over time.
