Required Ingredients

5 cloves of garlic, moderate amount of salt, 1 handful of cowpeas, 8 chili peppers, 10 peppercorns

Steps to Make Sour Cowpeas

First Step: Cut both ends of the fresh and tender cowpeas, and wash and dry the water with the chili peppers.

Step 2: Chop the cowpeas into small pieces so that they go in more easily, and chop the chili and garlic.

Step 3: Put the chopped cowpeas, chili peppers and minced garlic together in a container, add salt, salt is not too much trouble, it is best to fry without oil, Eiko is too lazy, so did not fry.

Step 4: Add the crushed peppercorns as well.

Step 5: Stir all the ingredients well, and remember not to touch the oil in any of these processes.

Step 6: Bottle and seal the bottle and leave it at room temperature for 3.4 days. In winter, it's best to leave it for a longer period of time, 8 days or so.

Step 7: Once the cowpeas turn yellow, they are basically ready to eat. At this point they can be stored in the refrigerator.

If you don't think it's going to take long enough to eat, you can pickle more jars at a time, or eat this one and then move on to the next one.

Tips

1: When choosing cowpeas, make sure they are tender, cowpeas that are too old don't have a good texture when they are done, this is the trick to making pickled cowpeas crunchy.

2:If you buy cowpeas, we recommend that we first soak the cowpeas inside a basin of water, add a little salt when soaking, soak and then wash the beans a few times, bought after all, for fear of pesticides.

3: cowpeas in the preparation of remember not to touch the raw water.

4: cowpeas in the marinating process, the color does not become the color in the picture, do not open the lid.

5: You can't use chopsticks with oil to clip them during eating for fear of mold.

Conclusion

Sour cowpeas pickled, can be eaten with porridge, but also can be fried meat, fried chicken or duck hybrid is also very good, so in our rural areas, many people will do some sour cowpeas at home, in the busy farming time, do not want to do other dishes, you can pour out of the rice to eat. Simple and affordable and rice.