Chilli Cucumber Pickle

Name: Chilli Cucumber Pickle
Ingredients: 1 tbsp cumin seeds; 150 ml/¼ pt malt vinegar; 900 g/2 lb baby cucumbers; 6 hot red chillies; 1 tbsp black peppercorns; 3 tbsp salt; 1 tbsp sugar; 4 garlic cloves; 1 tbsp coriander seeds; 300 ml/½ pt white wine vinegar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food of the Sun

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1995

About

Small cucumbers for pickling are now sold by supermarkets. This is a spicy cure which has a chilli tingle to the tongue. The coriander and cumin seeds in the pickle give it further depth.

Ingredients

1 tbsp cumin seeds
1 tbsp coriander seeds
1 tbsp

Preserve
Mediterranean
Spicy
Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

Preparation

Toast the cumin, coriander and peppercorns in a dry heavy pan for 2—3 minutes over a low heat.

Put into a saucepan with the vinegars, salt, sugar and 300 ml/½ pt of water. Bring to a boil, then leave to cool.

Pack the cucumbers upright into 2 kilner jars or similar and pour over the pickling liquid, distributing the chillies equally between the jars. Peel t