How to Make Sea Bean Pickles
Sterilize your jars., Fill the jars half full with water., Get your ingredients together.,Make a cocktail of 1/2 water, 1/2 vinegar (figure out how much you’ll need to fill the jars), and boil.,Get the jars out of microwave, empty the water., While...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Sterilize your jars.
This isn’t a super crucial step since we’re using vinegar in the pickling (a soap and water wash is probably fine), but it’s a good habit to get into, and becomes more important when making naturally fermented pickles. , Place in microwave on high for 5-8 minutes, and forget about them for a bit.
This is a good time to put your lids and rims in some water to boil.
They should boil for about 10 minutes. (Don’t put them in the microwave unless you want to have a really good story about explosions in the kitchen!), Peel your garlic and...well that’s about it, it’s super easy.
If you want to get a bit OCD, and want your finished product to be a work of food art, the envy of your peers, and a testament to the validity of the dominant power of the human race on our small planet, you can pick out the long sea beans and arrange them in piles according to size and direction.
If not, that’s cool too. ,,, If you want, you can stand them all up in one direction, for vanity's sake.
Then place a sprig of dill on top. ,,, Boil for 10 minutes. , So easy, so delicious.
Well, not quite done.
After they cool check to make sure the lids don’t pop, if they do, the vacuum didn’t seal, and they should be put in the fridge to pickle.
Place the jars in a cool dark place, and let sit for 4-6 weeks. -
Step 2: Fill the jars half full with water.
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Step 3: Get your ingredients together.
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Step 4: Make a cocktail of 1/2 water
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Step 5: 1/2 vinegar (figure out how much you’ll need to fill the jars)
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Step 6: and boil.
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Step 7: Get the jars out of microwave
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Step 8: empty the water.
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Step 9: While that heats up
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Step 10: place a sprig (mostly leaves) of dill and optional garlic clove in the bottom of each jar
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Step 11: and then fill with sea beans.
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Step 12: Once vinegar boils
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Step 13: fill jars
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Step 14: leaving 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm) at the top of each.
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Step 15: Place lids on jars
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Step 16: making sure the edges are clean.
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Step 17: Now one more boil
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Step 18: place jars in a pot with water to 3/4 height of jar.
Detailed Guide
This isn’t a super crucial step since we’re using vinegar in the pickling (a soap and water wash is probably fine), but it’s a good habit to get into, and becomes more important when making naturally fermented pickles. , Place in microwave on high for 5-8 minutes, and forget about them for a bit.
This is a good time to put your lids and rims in some water to boil.
They should boil for about 10 minutes. (Don’t put them in the microwave unless you want to have a really good story about explosions in the kitchen!), Peel your garlic and...well that’s about it, it’s super easy.
If you want to get a bit OCD, and want your finished product to be a work of food art, the envy of your peers, and a testament to the validity of the dominant power of the human race on our small planet, you can pick out the long sea beans and arrange them in piles according to size and direction.
If not, that’s cool too. ,,, If you want, you can stand them all up in one direction, for vanity's sake.
Then place a sprig of dill on top. ,,, Boil for 10 minutes. , So easy, so delicious.
Well, not quite done.
After they cool check to make sure the lids don’t pop, if they do, the vacuum didn’t seal, and they should be put in the fridge to pickle.
Place the jars in a cool dark place, and let sit for 4-6 weeks.
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