If you have harvested or bought a lot of vegetables and want to keep them for a few weeks or months, pickling is a wonderful option. We give you some general tips and name three delicious recipe ideas.

Pickling has been used to preserve vegetables for decades

How to pickle vegetables - general instructions

Basically, you can pickle vegetables in two ways:

  • Salt and drain raw
  • ferment

Finally, pour cold or hot vinegar broth over the prepared vegetables - depending on how much bite you want it to have (cold for more bite, hot for a softer consistency).

tips

Vegetables with a high water content such as cucumbers or Chinese cabbage, peppers or onions are best suited for sour pickling.

In detail (raw variant):

  1. Wash the vegetables thoroughly.
  2. Cut the ingredients into small pieces (ideally cubes).
  3. Salt the raw vegetables or place them in salted water.
  4. Let the vegetables soak for 12 to 24 hours.
  5. Rinse the vegetable pieces.
  6. Place the vegetables in sterilized canning jars.
  7. Top up the pieces with (suitably) flavored vinegar brew - cold or hot.
  8. Close the jars tightly.

tips

Then you should cool the glasses on a safe shelf (in the case of the hot brew) and then leave them in the fridge for two to three days so that the full aroma can develop. Keep the pickled vegetables in the refrigerator - they can usually be kept there for up to three months.

Recipe ideas for sour pickling vegetables

Recipe #1: Spicy Garden Vegetables

Ingredient list:

  • 2 medium onions
  • 3 carrots
  • 1 kg zucchini
  • 4 bell peppers (2 red, 2 yellow)
  • 1 hot pepper
  • 250 grams of cauliflower
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 500 ml white wine vinegar
  • 200 g sugar*
  • 2-3 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp mustard seeds
  • 1 tbsp cucumber seasoning
  • ½ tsp turmeric (ground)

Recipe #2: Baby Corn with Romanesco

Ingredient list:

  • 250 g fresh baby corn
  • 150 g Romanesco florets
  • 100 g peppers (small, orange, sweet)
  • 2 sprigs of basil
  • 40 grams of salt
  • 1 tsp white peppercorns
  • 1 tsp sugar*
  • 120 ml white wine vinegar
  • 30 ml white balsamic vinegar

Recipe #3: Spicy Tomatoes

Ingredient list:

  • 400 g red cherry tomatoes
  • 400 g yellow cherry tomatoes
  • 2 red chili peppers
  • 500 ml fruit vinegar
  • 250 g sugar*
  • 2 vanilla beans
  • 3 star anise
  • 3-4 cloves
  • 2 sticks of cinnamon
  • 3 sprigs of thyme

* Birch sugar is more beneficial to your health than normal granulated sugar.

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