Courgette Pickle

[macmac]

Courgette Pickle

500g sliced courgettes
3 shallots (or onion) sliced
2TBspoons salt
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500ml cider vinegar
120g sugar
1TSPoon mustard powder
1TSPoon mustard seeds
1TSPoon celery seeds
1TSPoon tumeric
half dried or whole fresh chilli chopped
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Put thinly sliced courgette and onion in a bowl ,sprinkle over salt and cover with cold water. Leave for 1 hour. Drain and dry well.
Put all pickling ingredints in a pan , heat slowly to dissolve sugar.Bubble gently for 3 mins.
Cool ,mix in courgettes and pack in jars (2 x 500ml)
keep in fridge,ready after a few days.Store up to 2 months

I found this recipe trying to use up all the courgettes.Although it doesn't seem very special it's really yum :)

[macmac]

[gavinjconway]

Mmmmm... thank you - I'll try this one as I have spare as well.. always seem to grow too much of everything..

[peanuts]

My recipe for cucumber pickle is almost exactly the same as this one, except that having drained the cucumber and onion I would add that it is really important to rinse them very well, again and again otherwise there is too much salt left.
Then after making the 'syrup' I add in the  drained cucumber and onion, bring back to boil and boil for 2 mins.  Immediately  lift out the cucumber with a slotted spoon and put in jars.  Boil the liquid again for 10 mins or so then pour immediately over the cucumber.  Put a paper covering under the lid to prevent rusting, and leave a month or two.  It isn't necessary to keep in fridge. 

[macmac]

Thanks peanuts  :)
you're absolutely right about the rinsing oops  :-[