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January Lock-Down Pickling

January Lock-Down Pickling

Both of these monstrosities used a 2% brine. That’s about 4 heaped table spoons of Salt to 1 litre of water. The slight pink haze is from the Ferrous Salts as I used ground Himalayan Salt. It’s not got magical properties (!!!) as some folk think, it’s just not got anti-caking ingredients which sometimes interfere with fermentation.

The Pickled Ginger was a bit of a challenge as it has natural anti-microbial properties and after a false start I had to ‘Seed’ it with a little liquid from an existing Garlic ferment. But it’s been worth the wait. If anything pickling have intensified the flavour and softened the texture. I started this on on the 29th of November, so it has been quite slow.

The Pickled Round Shallots I only started on Wednesday, so they’ve had 3 days so far. They are very active and bubbling away happily. There’s quite a lot of natural sugars in Alliums, so this will initially be a very fast ferment and eventually settle down as the Ph increases. I’m thinking perhaps 3 weeks until it goes dormant but we’ll see. The Shallots were on offer so this 1l jar will have cost us about 35p including the Salt!

 

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Fennel Pork Curry

"F" in our ingredients alphabet = Fennel

The Fennel sauce base with intended as a sauce for the Pork joint but it was a bit too pungent for our liking. But it made a good Curry base.

Ingredients:-

Cumin seeds, dry fried
2 cloves of Garlic, minced
A thumb of Ginger, minced
Chilli Flakes
Onion Salt
Garlic Salt
Bizar Seasoning ( Ingredents here )
1 large Onion, sliced
2 tins of chopped Tomatoes
Tomato Puree
1 large Potato, cubed and par boiled
Cubed cooked Pork
1 bulb of Fennel chopped
Salt & Pepper

Method:-

(1) Add the bulb of Fennel and a tin of Tomatoes to a casserole dish with Salt & Pepper and roast the Pork over it.
(2) When cooled blend the Tomato and Fennel sauce in a food processor and set aside.
(3) Fry the Onion in Oil until translucent and add the Garlic, Ginger, fried Cumin seeds.
(4) Add the remaining tin of chopped Tomatoes and Tomato Puree and simmer for 20 minutes.
(5)Add the Chilli Flakes, Black Pepper, Garlic and Onion Salt and Bizar seasoning.
(6) Add the Tomato  and Fennel sauce, cubed Potatoes and Pork.
(7) Stir well and simmer for a further 15 minutes.

We had some home made special fried Rice in the freezer. A bit of an odd combination. But there’s nothing new there!

 

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