What you will need: organic cherry tomatoes or gherkins. No, supermarket oversized cucumbers just wouldn't do..even if you cut them up. Try getting gherkins at a farmers market when they are in season. Another thing you will need is a big glass preserving jar (make sure the glass is thick) and a large pot. And of course put any spices you like. Cardamom gives it an extra kick.
Ingredients:
- Water - 1 litre
- Coarse sea salt - 4 full tbs
- Sugar - 2 full tbs
- White vinegar(6%) - 2 tbs
- Garlic cloves (peeled,whole) - 4
- Bay leaves - 2
- Black pepper corns - 4
- Corriander seeds - 2tsp
- Dried dill - a bunch
- Celery leaves - a few
- Wash your gherkins or cherry tomatoes (choose how many you want to pickle yourself).
- Put cold water, salt, sugar and vinegar into a large pot and bring to a boil.
- Put the gherkins (or tomatoes) into the jar together with the herbs and pepper; pour the hot brine over them and close the jar (not too tightly).
- Put the jar in a warm place for 3/4 days (the longer you leave them out, the stronger they will taste), transfer it into your fridge after that.
They are ready! Enjoy them after taking a shot of the best quality vodka (preferably out of a slender crystal liqueur glass, with some salmon and rye bread on the table, so you look and feel like a decadent intellectual from the 1920s, not an alky)
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