Pickle Recipes

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Israeli Green Pickled Olives Recipe


This recipe will provide you with all the information you need
on how to preserve and pickle green olives.

If you follow the directions, you will get aromatic, super
tasty olives, which will last for many months, and are
guaranteed to be a real treat at many and varied occasions.

Ingredients:
 
  1 Glass Jar
  4½ pounds fresh green olives (cut each olive a little from both sides)   
  7 garlic cloves, sliced
  2 unpeeled lemons cut into eighths
  2 dry hot red chili peppers
  1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  Filtered water
  Sea-salt

Directions:

  1. Soak the green olives in water for 4 days. Rinse the olives
      by changing the water once a day.

  2. Put the olives in the jar, mixing the lemons, fennel seeds,
     garlic and hot peppers equally with the olives.

  3.  Add water according to the following ratio: for each cup of water,
      add 1 tbsp sea-salt. Fill the jar up, then add olive oil on top.

  4. Close the jar, store in a dry, dark spot for 14 days, and lo and behold, your pickled green olives
     are ready!

     
          
                        Recommended with: Hummus Dip