Pickled green tomatoes | How to make homemade CRISPY unripened tomatoes pickles

Pickled green tomatoes | How to make homemade CRISPY unripened tomatoes pickles

I learned how to preserve my own vegetables from my mother in law and I’m crazy about the way they stay crunchy and about the distinctive taste they get after the fermentation process: not to salty, not to sour, just perfect. One of my favorite pickles recipes is this one with the green, unripened tomatoes mixed with other veggies and fruits (red cabbage, peppers, cauliflower, carrots, horseradish, apples, quince and pears). The red cabbage gives a specific purple-ish color, the horseradish helps them to stay firm (I like to say that it’s the secret ingredient for perfect pickles), the fruits add flavor to the whole thing.

How to make pickles (recipe):

Ingredients:

VEGGIES & FRUITS
• Fresh, firm unripened tomatoes
• A few pieces of cauliflower
• Horseradish, peeled and cut into pieces
• Carrots, peeled and cut as you prefer
• Celery. You’ll use both the root and the stems with the leaves
• Some slices of red cabbage
OPTIONAL, BUT RECOMMENDED:
• Peppers stuffed with grated red cabbage
• Quince, cut, skin on
• Some seasonal apples and pears, cut and skin on

SPICES
• Black pepper seeds
• A few bay leaves
• Mustard seeds
• Dill seeds or dried dill flowers

BRINE
For 1l / 1 qt of brine you’ll need to mix the following:(multiply the quantities to obtain as much as you need to)
• 40 grams of salt without iodine for each liter of water (2,3 tbsp /1 qt water)
• 30 ml of vinegar for each liter of water (2 tbsp /1 qt water). Or just use 1 or 2 cups of vinegar for a bigger container.
• 1 l water (1qt)

RECIPIENT
• A container for the veggies to ferment in. Make sure it’s clean and sterilized.

Method:
1. Prepare the brine by mixing the salt, vinegar and water. Multiply the quantities to get as many liters of brine as your container calls for. There’s no need to simmer the brine.
2. Wash, clean and cut the veggies as you prefer. Leave the green tomatoes as a whole.
3. Prepare the spices
4. In a clean container add half of the spices and a few stems of celery with leaves. Add the veggies and fruits in such a way as to stuff as many as you can in the jug. While you still have a bit of space left, add the rest of the spices and continue with the veggies until you almost reach the top. Make a sort of improvised lid with the celery stems, or even better, with the dill dried stems and flower (if you have those) to prevent the veggies from rising up to the top. Pour the brine, but don’t fill the whole container yet. Shake the container to let some of the air bubbles out and complete with the brine until everything is covered.
5. Make sure your pickles are completely sealed with the lid.
6. They’ll be ready in about 2 months. Keep the pickles jar in the coolest, darkest place you have around.

I hope you’ll give it try guys! The most difficult part of this canning process is to go out and buy everything, you saw, that there’s nothing complicated about it.

Go make your firm pickles and good luck with your first attempt!

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