Yesterday I did not move from the kitchen! There is just such a bumper harvest of cucumbers, courgettes, chillis, plums…. it kept me busy all day.
This recipe was one way of using up some of the cucumbers. We have a huge crop of cucumbers coming from the polytunnel. I’ve grown the lovely yellow round cucumbers which are sweeter than the regular green ones. This is from Rick Stein’s Food Heroes – adjusted slightly!
I have already made a batch of the Sweet Cucumber Pickle which I shared with you before, but that has a short shelf life. What attracted me to Rick Stein’s recipe was the name! Isn’t it a wonderful name? And the fact that it will keep for a year!
Ingredients:
- 750 g small cucumbers, thinly sliced
- 450 g onions, thinly sliced
- 1 green pepper, thinly sliced.
- 50 g salt
- 350 g light brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/4 teaspoon of ground cloves
- 1 tablespoon of mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp celery seeds (I didn’t have these so worked without them!)
- 475 ml cider vinegar
Method:
I used a mandolin to slice the onions, cucumber and pepper. Pile them all into a bowl, add the salt and leave to stand for 3 hours. Drain them and rinse under running cold water. Leave them to drain.
Add the remaining ingredients to a large saucepan, bring slowly to the boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Boil for 5 minutes.
Add the vegetables to the liquid and again heat slowly to just below boiling point.
Pot into sterilised jars! This amount made 7 jars.
It tastes lovely immediately! But it will be a lovely burst of summer over the winter months too!
Enjoy! 🙂
YOU HAVE TO MAKE THIS!! THANKS FOR THIS RECIPE, TRIED THIS PICKLE FEW YEARS BACK FROM RICK STEINS DELI IN PADSTOW AND FELL IN LOVE AS DID ALL MY FAMILY WHEN I MADE IT LAST YEAR FOR EVERYONE!! JUST COPIED RECIPE TO DO AGAIN THIS WEEKEND!
Thank you Zoe….. it is so delicious… a jar hardly lasts through lunch 🙂
Margaret
This is our favourite pickle, the recipe was given to me by a friend many years ago, the only problem is I never make enough to last throughout the year.
I hear you Anne…. this is one that I begrudge giving as a gift…. I want to keep it all for ourselves 🙂