Pickled Celery, saving celery from the compost heap.
Celery is a necessary ingredient to have on hand for many culinary applications. There aren't really any substitutes, however I often find that my celery has gone bad before I have used all of it. I hate buying food just to see it thrown in the garbage/compost. How to save food from going bad? Pickle IT! Pickled celery is amazingly delicious. Highly addictive, and super easy. So now when I have celery on hand with no plans of making stock or soup on the horizon. I simply chop it on the bias and pickle it. It is magical.
Recipe(makes one quart jar)
1 cup water
1 cup rice vinegar
6 tbls sugar
2 1/4 tsp kosher salt
4 tsp chili garlic paste
Just cut celery on bias( the bias is important so it is not stringy), stuff in a quart jar, measure the rest of ingredients heat up to dissolve sugar, pour over celery. Let sit in fridge at least overnight, 2 days is best.
This recipe came to be last summer when I was reading the Momofuku cookbook. I found the quick pickling section very interesting so I tried a few of the recipes but the results were ehh nothing special. I liked the rice vinegar sugar mix but decided it was missing some kick. I decided on chili garlic paste, as it is one of my favorite condiments. Here are all the ingredients you will need to make pickled celery.
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| Sugar, Rice vinegar, celery, chili garlic, water |
1 cup water
1 cup rice vinegar
6 tbls sugar
2 1/4 tsp kosher salt
4 tsp chili garlic paste
Just cut celery on bias( the bias is important so it is not stringy), stuff in a quart jar, measure the rest of ingredients heat up to dissolve sugar, pour over celery. Let sit in fridge at least overnight, 2 days is best.
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