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Saturday, March 10, 2012

From our chef's cookbook

Sweet mixed vegetable pickle

Ingredients:
2 1/2 kgs cauliflower, carrots and turnips
200 grams sugar
100 grams salt
30 grams ground spices
20 grams red chili pepper
60 grams mustard powder
30 grams ginger
15 grams garlic
100 grams salt

1 teaspoon glacial acetic acid (6 grams)
1/2 litre Mustard oil

Method:
Wash, peel and cut the vegetables (carrots into long slices, cauliflower into medium pieces, round medium slices of turnip).
Blanch the vegetables in hot water for 10 to 15 minutes: drain.
Grind ginger and garlic to a fine paste and fry in 1 cup of hot oil till golden brown.
Remove from the fire, add all the spices and mix well.
Prepare the sugar syrup of (in half or less than that amount of water than the sugar) one to two-thread consistency.
Mix glacial acetic acid and syrup into fried garlic and ginger mixed with spices.
Cook for 5 minutes.
Add all the vegetables, cook till it leaves its oil.
Cool, put in a jar and keep it for 10 days before using.

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