About 15-30 days.

Generally speaking, sugar garlic needs to be pickled for about 2 weeks to a month before it can be eaten. The longer you marinate sugared garlic, the less spicy the garlic will be and the better it will taste. If you want to eat sugared garlic with a less spicy taste, you can store it for a longer time before eating it. But if the marinating time is too short, it will taste spicy and sour.

It should be noted that the garlic for pickled sugar garlic does not need to be washed. Just try to pick garlic with an unbroken skin, and peel it down to the last layer for pickling.

Precautions for pickling sweet and sour garlic

It should be noted that before pickling sweet and sour garlic, the garlic must be soaked in salt water for 2 days, because soaking the garlic in salt water can remove the garlic. The bitter taste can also make the garlic crisper, and more importantly, it can allow salt to enter the garlic, thereby preventing the garlic from becoming moldy when soaked in sweet and sour water.

It should be noted that when pickling sweet and sour garlic, it is best to use rice vinegar. Do not use white vinegar or mature vinegar, because mature vinegar will make the pickled garlic look ugly, and white vinegar is generally blended vinegar. If blended vinegar is used, Soaking sweet and sour garlic in vinegar will reduce the nutrients in the garlic.

Reference for the above content? Baidu Encyclopedia-Sweet and Sour Garlic, Baidu Encyclopedia-Sweet and Sour Garlic