Quick Pickled Garlic With Mediterranean Flavors Food

PICKLED GARLIC

Steps:

• Trim garlic heads, leaving stem intact and peeling off all but one layer of papery skin. Set aside.
• Combine vinegar, sugar, peppercorns, cloves, peppers, bay leaf, and lemon rind in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over high heat; boil 2 minutes more. Add garlic; boil 4 minutes. Remove from heat; cover, and let sit overnight in refrigerator. Garlic may be canned, placed in a sterilized jar, or stored in the refrigerator in an airtight container up to 1 month.

SIMPLE PICKLED GARLIC

Steps:

• Peel cloves; if large, cut in half lengthwise.
• In a non-reactive saucepan, combine vinegar, sugar and salt.
• Bring to boiling and stir until sugar dissolves.
• Drop garlic into mixture and cook, uncovered, over high heat 1 minute, stirring occasionally.
• Remove from heat; let cool.
• Store in tightly covered jar in refrigerator for 3 months or longer.
• To make a crisper, slightly spicier garlic pickle, add 1/16 to 1/8 teaspoon alum and 1/2 teaspoon crushed red peppercorns.

PICKLED GARLIC

Steps:

• Fill a large bowl with ice and fill halfway with water. This is the ice bath you will use to stop the cooking after you blanch the garlic.
• Bring a very large pot of water to a full rolling boil. Place all the garlic in the boiling water and blanch for 1 minute. Do not wait for the water to return to a boil, begin timing the minute as soon as you place the garlic in the water.
• Drain the garlic and place it in the ice water bath. Let the garlic stay in the ice water until it is entirely cool.
• In a large nonreactive pot, combine the vinegar, pickling salt and sugar. Bring just to a boil over high heat, stirring to make sure all the salt and sugar are dissolved.
• Distribute the spices evenly between 4 pint jars: 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, 1/8 teaspoon celery seed, 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano, 3 peppercorns and one bay leaf in each jar. If you are using Pickle Crisp, now is the time to add it. Add 1/4 teaspoon to each jar.
• Distribute the garlic evenly between the 4 jars, leaving 1" headspace.
• Ladle the boiling vinegar mixture into the filled jars, leaving 1/2" headspace.
• Use a chopstick or other thin, non-metal utensil to run around the sides of the jar to make sure there are no air bubbles left in the jar. Wipe the rims of the jars with damp paper towels to remove any brine which got on the rims or the threads. Place the lids and the bands on the jars, just tightening the bands fingertip tight.
• Process in a boiling water bath for 15 minutes, then remove and let sit, undisturbed, for at least 12 hours before checking seals. It is important to let them sit undisturbed for 12 hours because the sealing compound on the lids is still cooling and hardening, completing the seal. While the jars cool, you will hear a "plink" type sound from each jar - this is the jars completing the vacuum seal as the final air escapes the jar. After 12 hours have passed, remove the bands and check the lids - press down in the center of the lid. If you cannot push the lid down any further, the jar is sealed. If the lid "gives" a bit, and you can push it down, the jar did not seal. You can either put the band back on the jar, and reprocess it for another 15 minutes, or you can just put it in the fridge and use it within 3 months.
• Let the garlic sit for at least a month before using, so the flavors can develop. The longer it sits, the better it gets.

LAURA'S PICKLED GARLIC

Steps:

• Trim the tops from the heads of garlic. Peel off all but one layer of the outer skin. Set aside.
• In a saucepan, combine the vinegar, sugar, peppercorns, cloves, bay leaf, chile peppers and lemon zest. Bring to a boil and cook for 2 minutes. Add the garlic, and continue to boil for another 4 minutes. Remove from the heat and let stand overnight at room temperature.
• Transfer to a clean jar. Strain the brine into the jar with the garlic so that the heads are completely covered. Discard the solids. Cover and store in the refrigerator until using. It will keep for 6 to 8 weeks. To keep longer, store in sterile jars and process in a hot water bath for at least 10 minutes to seal the jars.

QUICK PICKLED GARLIC WITH MEDITERRANEAN FLAVORS

Steps:

• In a small nonreactive saucepan, combine the vinegar, sherry, salt, peppercorns, bay leaf, and chile, and bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring once or twice to dissolve the salt.
• Reduce the heat to medium, add the garlic, and simmer for 30 seconds or so.
• Remove from the heat and add the fresh herb.
• Allow to cool to room temperature, uncovered, and then pour into a jar with a nonreactive lid.
• Cover tightly and let stand at room temperature for at least a day before sampling one of the smaller cloves.
• The flavor will improve steadily over the first few days, as the liquid penetrates the garlic.
• This pickle will keep, covered and refrigerated, for 2 months or more.

PICKLED GARLIC

Steps:

• Separate garlic cloves, but do not peel.
• Place all ingredients in a large heavy-bottom saucepan.
• Bring to a boil, cook for 10 minutes, stirring from time to time.
• Reduce heat to moderate and cook 5 minutes.
• Cool to room temperature.
• Transfer to a large glass or ceramic jar large enough to hold garlic and the liquid.
• Tightly seal.
• Refrigerate at least 1 month before serving.
• The garlic improves with age.