{"id":877,"date":"2019-02-21T11:51:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T22:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/?p=877"},"modified":"2019-02-21T14:32:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:32:20","slug":"pickled-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"Pickled Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pickled Vegetables \/ Courgettes<\/p>\n<p>500 grams courgettes<br \/>\n3 &#8211; 6 Spring Onions, finely chopped<br \/>\nCarrots or Cabbage chopped finely<br \/>\nRed Onion &#8211; Finely chopped<br \/>\n2 Tablespoons Non-Iodised Salt (I used the pink Sea salt)<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the Picking Liquid<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>500 mls cider vinegar<br \/>\n140 grams castor, palm or raw sugar<br \/>\n1 teaspoon mustard powder<br \/>\n2 teaspoon mustard seeds<br \/>\n1 teaspoon celery seeds<br \/>\n1 teaspoon dried chilli, crumbled<br \/>\n1 teaspoon ground tumeric.<\/p>\n<p>You can make this with any vegetables, but I have been using up the fresh courgettes that are around at the moment<\/p>\n<p>Thinly slices your vegetables, or make Zoodles with them and slice up.<\/p>\n<p>Place these in a bowl and sprinkle over the salt.  Then cover with ice cold water.  Stir to dissolve the salt and leave for 1 hour.<br \/>\nDrain and pat dry using kitchen towels or a clean tea towel.  If these are left too wet they dilute the pickling liquid.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, put the pickling ingredients into a pan and bring to a simmer.  Simmer for 3 minutes making sure the sugar<br \/>\nhas dissolved. Then leave to cool until warm, but not too hot.  <\/p>\n<p>Put your vegetables in the clean, sterilised jars and pour the liquid over the top. Seal<\/p>\n<p>Seal and leave in the fridge for a few days for the taste to develop.  <\/p>\n<p>If kept chilled, these will keep for a couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>I made my last lot in one large bottle, with a sealed lid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Pickled-Vegetables-23.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Pickled-Vegetables-23-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Pickled Vegetables 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Pickled-Vegetables-23-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Pickled-Vegetables-23-512x288.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Pickles-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Pickles-3-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Pickles 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Pickles-3-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Pickles-3-512x288.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pickled Vegetables \/ Courgettes 500 grams courgettes 3 &#8211; 6 Spring Onions, finely chopped Carrots or Cabbage chopped finely Red Onion &#8211; Finely chopped 2 Tablespoons Non-Iodised Salt (I used the pink Sea salt) For the Picking Liquid 500 mls cider vinegar 140 grams castor, palm or raw sugar 1 teaspoon mustard powder 2 teaspoon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dips_and_snacks","category-salads","wpcat-5-id","wpcat-3-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}