Pickled Garlic With Chili And Herbs
Total Time: 50 mins
Preparation Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Ingredients
- 12 large head garlic (about 6 cups of peeled cloves)
- 4 cups vinegar, 5% acidty
- 1 1/2 tablespoons pickling salt
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano or 3 tablespoons fresh oregano
- fresh thyme
- fresh rosemary, stem discarded
- 9 whole chili peppers (sliced down the middle leaving it joined at stem your choice from a mellow one like fresh peperoncin)
- 1 tablespoon mustard seeds
- 1 tablespoon peppercorn
Recipe
- 1 separate garlic bulbs into cloves. to soften and loosen skins, blanch garlic cloves in rapidly boiling water 30 seconds; immediately immerse in cold water, drain and peel cloves.
- 2 in a large stainless steel saucepan, combine vinegar, pickling salt, mustard seeds, peppercorns, sugar and oregano, rosemary, thyme.
- 3 bring to a boil; boil gently 1 minute; remove from heat.
- 4 add peeled garlic cloves and chili’s to hot vinegar mixture. stir constantly 1 minute.
- 5 pack garlic and 1 whole chili pepper into a hot jar to within 3/4-inch of top rim. add hot liquid to cover garlic to 1/2-inch of top rim (head space). using rubber spatula, remove air bubbles. wipe jar rim removing any stickiness. center and place lids on jar; apply screw band just until fingertip tight. place jar in canner. repeat for remaining garlic and liquid.
- 6 cover canner; return water to a boil. process -- boil filled jars -- 10 minutes. remove lid and leave jars till bubbles subside about 5 minutes.
- 7 remove jars. cool undisturbed 24 hours in a draft free spot.
- 8 check jars seals. sealed lids curve downward. remove screw bands; wipe and dry bands and jars. store screw bands separately or replace loosely on jars, as desired.
- 9 label and store in a cool, dark place.
- 10 it takes anywhere from 2-4 weeks to pickle garlic so that it has a good rich spicy taste.
- 11 note: at elevations higher than (1,000 ft) increase processing time. add 5 minutes at (1,000-3,000 ft); add 10 minutes at (3,001-6,000 ft); add 15 minutes at elevations higher than (6,0001 ft).
- 12 fyi: this recipe was specially formulated to allow home canners to preserve a low acid food -- garlic -- in a commonly available boiling water canner. please do not deviate from the recipe ingredients; quantities, jar size and processing method and time. any change could affect the safety of the end product.
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