Pickled Eggplant

Pickled Eggplant

Eggplant preserved in a pickling brine.

A preserved eggplant recipe made in a pickling brine.

Like pickled vegetables in a jar.

Pack the eggplant tightly and keep everything clean for safe preserving.

Ingredients

  • 4 or 5 kg eggplant
  • enough to cover water
  • 1 kg red bell peppers
  • 2 heads garlic
  • a pinch of rock salt (1 teaspoon) rock salt
  • 2 peppers hot green chili peppers
  • 3 liters water
  • 3 tablespoons rock salt
  • not listed in the ingredients; mentioned in the transcript: "just olive oil was added to it" olive oil

Instructions

  1. In a pot, place the eggplant with enough water to cover and put over the heat until it comes to a boil or is lightly cooked.
  2. In a pot, after it comes to a boil, transfer the eggplant directly to cold water, then remove it from the water.
  3. In a bowl or food processor, split open the eggplants and easily remove the caps.
  4. In a food processor, chop the eggplant with the sweet red peppers, garlic, and hot green chili peppers, leaving the mixture not too finely chopped.
  5. In a bowl, add the pinch of rock salt to the mixture.
  6. In a bowl or jar, stuff the eggplants with the mixture.
  7. In a jar or preserving container, prepare the pickling brine with 3 liters of water and 3 tablespoons of rock salt.
  8. In a preserving jar, leave the eggplants until the pickling is complete.

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