Jill Dupleix

To pickle vegetables

Preparation info

  • Feeds

    four

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

Old Food

Old Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 1998

  • About

Pickle your own Chinese vegetables (dai ga jeung) and you’ll have a regular supply to have with rice, or to serve as an appetiser before a Chinese meal. Use dry, clean chopsticks when removing pickled vegetables from the jar, to avoid contaminating the brine.

Ingredients

  • 1 white radish (lo bak)
  • 2 carrots
  • 10 radishes
  • 1

Method

Peel white radish and carrots and cut into slices, and then into strips. Peel onion and radishes and cut into wedges, then cut wedge in half. Peel ginger and cut into thin slices. Wash all vegetables and dry thoroughly. Bring water to the boil and add ginger slices, chillies, salt and rice wine vinegar. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Layer vegetables in a large sterilised jar, then top wit