Sweet Pickled Carrots

Pickled Carrots

As a kid I was always excited to see my gran make all sorts of pickles during summer.These ranged from raw mango,lime and mixed vegetable pickles in different flavours-sweet,spicy,sweet-n-sour. Then,she would put them in big pickle jars and leave it to marinate-some in the sun,some in the shade. We would bug her everyday to find out when we could get to taste them. Back then,I was more interested in the sweet and sweet-n-sour pickles as I couldn't eat spicy stuff.
I've never tried my hand at pickling-I always thought it was such a cumbersome and long process. The other day,we ate pickled carrots at a Mexican restaurant,which we liked and that's when I decided to try my hand at it.
I came across two recipes that I liked and decided to mix both recipes to make a sweet-n-sour carrot pickle.Here's what I used-
Ingredients:

• Baby Carrots: 250 g(approx),slit lengthwise
• Vinegar: 1 cup (distilled white vinegar)
• Peppercorns:4-5
• Garlic: 2 peeled and sliced
• Salt:1 teaspoon(or according to taste)
• Sugar:2 teaspoon
• Water: 1 cup
• Oil: 1 teaspoon

Method:

1. Heat the oil in a pan,add the garlic and saute for 1-2 minutes.
2. Add the carrots and saute for another 3-4 minutes.
3. Add the vinegar,salt,sugar,peppercorns and simmer for 5-6 minutes.
4. Add water and simmer again for 10 minutes.
5. Allow it to cool completely.Transfer into a sterilized bottle/jar with a tight lid.
6. Let it marinate overnight in the fridge for the flavours to develop.

Check out the original recipe for the spicy pickle here and the sweet pickle here.

Question: Do you make your own pickles?