Sour pickles can be appetizing, and one of the most popular is pickled cowpeas. Here are three ways to pickle cowpeas that I hope you will enjoy.
Cowpea three pickling methods (a)1. Wash the altar two times repeatedly and then inverted to drain the water, cowpeas and garbage cleaned and put aside to drain, ginger peeled and washed and drained, grass berries, star anise, peppercorns, a quick rinse and then drained to ensure that all the materials can not have a little oil
2. Inverted to drain water, cowpeas and garbage cleaned and placed aside to drain, ginger peeled and washed and drained, grass berries, star anise, peppercorns quickly rinsed and drained, to ensure that all materials can not have a little oil
3. The salt is divided into 2 parts, the first to pour a part of the altar, and then poured into the rock sugar or sugar, into ginger, peppercorns, star anise, and other materials and then poured into the white wine, and finally poured into half of the altar boiled open and cooled water or Pure water
4. Wash your hands, put the bundled cowpeas into the altar gently, and then put in the morning glory, and then pour in another portion of salt after laying the morning glory, and then finally pour in the open and cooled water or pure water to eight or nine minutes full
5. Cover the altar with a lid, and then fill the altar with a little bit of water along the edge of the altar, put on the cover of the altar, and then place the kimchi altar into a cool and sunless place, and then eat it in a week. place, after a week can open eat it
Cooking tips
1, thin cowpea is the kind of skinny tight, no bubble bloated cowpea, bubble fat cowpea to do soaking cowpea is not good.
2, one of the most critical requirements for making pickles is that all containers and materials are required not to be stained with oil, otherwise the pickles will surely deteriorate and grow white mold, the old man called that raw flowers, all not only in the process of soaking, including the future of pickles when the chopsticks must be clean oh.
3, poured into the altar of white wine according to the size of the altar, the number of changes in the number of pickles, you can add a little more, like the flavor (just very unfortunate, I have no white wine at home, only a little bit of the remaining, or I must add another 1 cup).
4, in my hometown, bubble dishes will take a little with other people's homes? old sour water? Into the altar, can be fast fermentation, if you have at home in the supermarket to buy jars of pickled peppers, you can also add a little of that pickle water into it.
5, every day, if the amount of water on the edge of the altar becomes less, add a little fill in, to ensure that the water on the edge of the altar will not dry.
Three ways to pickle cowpeas (2)
1. Prepare the main ingredient: long cowpeas. (The choice of cowpeas should be the tender green kind, it is best not to choose the whitish ones with bean kernels, the whitish cowpeas are already old, the sour cowpeas are not crisp and tough, the taste is lacking)
2. Preparation of the required auxiliary materials as well as seasonings: more than 30 peppercorns, 4 slices of coriander, 1-2 slices of gui pi, 4 grains of five-spice star anise, 4 grains of dried red bell peppercorns, a small bottle of pickled peppercorns with a net weight of about 80g, 40g of rock candy, a big spoon, 60ml of white wine, salt, a large spoon. A large spoon, white wine about 60ml
3. large enough pot or container, add the amount of water that can probably not over cowpeas, add the accessories: peppercorns, leaves, cinnamon, anise, dry red pepper, and a large spoon of salt, high heat until the water boiled boiling for 2 minutes, turn off the fire to cool. (About the amount of salt, you can taste the salinity, to be more than usual stir-fried vegetables salty taste)
4. Boil boiling brine, to be completely cooled before you can use it
5. Long cowpeas choose to remove the 2 head stalks, wash, put in a ventilated place to blow dry the surface of the water, or in the sun to dry the water
6. Completely drained of water cowpeas, divided into a few equal parts (The airtight container for sour cowpeas should be washed in advance, scalded with boiling water and drained of water.) Then put the cowpeas into it one by one, and add 80ml of pickled peppercorns and pickled peppercorns water to the container
8. Add 4-5 slices of ginger
9. Add 40g of rock sugar
10. After that, pour the completely cooled brine into the cowpeas together with the auxiliary ingredients
11. Add about 60ml of white wine at the end
12. Seal it well and put it in a cool place to ferment for about half a month, then you can eat it
Three ways of pickling cowpeas Three ways of pickling cowpeas Three ways of pickling cowpeas Cowpeas (3) The white varieties are not crisp enough and should not be chosen.Inspection of fresh bean curd method: a little force with the hand to pinch the bean curd, if it is very solid means that the bean curd is fresh, if the pinch up to feel very empty that is not fresh performance.
2, the choice of containers:
Pickled containers can choose a special altar, you can also choose to use a large wide-mouth glass bottles, do not recommend using plastic bottles.
The containers must be cleaned, no water and no oil, scalded with boiling water or sterilized in a sterilized dishwasher, drying.
3, the practice of pickling water:
With boiling water + salt + rock sugar Blend
Use a clean and oil-free pot to boil the water to put 1000 ml of water into the calculation, put 50 grams of salt, 40 grams of rock sugar, boil the water, and wait for a thorough cooling and then ready to use.
4, beans processing:
Beans cleaned, placed in the sun about 1 hour to dry and soft.
5, bean curd plate up, in order to yard and container.
6, beans into the container, pour the marinade made earlier, marinade water should be completely submerged beans. (Pickling water with or without sugar to regulate their own)
7, in the yard on a piece of heavy weight, masked with plastic wrap, cover the lid, tighten, and seal with a transparent adhesive. (The container must be sealed, otherwise the leaky window to do out of the bean curd easy to smell)