Maple Pickled Beets And Onions

Serves: 6

Mckayla Luettgen

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

58

Spice

50

Sweetness

61

Sourness

37

mins

Prep time (avg)

4.7

Difficulty

Ingredients:

3 cups

Cider Vinegar

1.5 cups

Water

Directions:

1

Sterilize jars and lids Cook onions in a large pot of boiling water until almost tender, about 5 minutes

2

Transfer with a slotted spoon to a bowl, reserving cooking water

3

When cool enough to handle, trim root ends from onions, keeping onions intact, then slip off skins

4

Halve onions lengthwise

5

Add beets to water in pot and boil until almost tender, about 25 minutes

6

Drain and, when cool enough to handle, slip off stems and skins

7

Halve beets lengthwise (quarter if large)

8

Bring vinegar, syrup, water, salt, star anise, and ginger to a boil in a 3-quart saucepan, then simmer, uncovered, 10 minutes

9

Drain jars upside down on a clean kitchen towel 1 minute, then invert

10

Fill jars with beets and onions

11

Remove star anise and ginger slices from pickling liquid and tuck 1 of each into side of each jar

12

Fill jars with pickling liquid, leaving 1/4 inch of space at top, then run a thin knife between vegetables and jar to eliminate air bubbles

13

Seal, process, and store filled jars, boiling beets and onions in jars 20 minutes

14

Let beets and onions stand in jars at least 1 week for flavors to develop

15

Sterilize jars and lids Cook onions in a large pot of boiling water until almost tender, about 5 minutes

16

Transfer with a slotted spoon to a bowl, reserving cooking water

17

When cool enough to handle, trim root ends from onions, keeping onions intact, then slip off skins

18

Halve onions lengthwise

19

Add beets to water in pot and boil until almost tender, about 25 minutes

20

Drain and, when cool enough to handle, slip off stems and skins

21

Halve beets lengthwise (quarter if large)

22

Bring vinegar, syrup, water, salt, star anise, and ginger to a boil in a 3-quart saucepan, then simmer, uncovered, 10 minutes

23

Drain jars upside down on a clean kitchen towel 1 minute, then invert

24

Fill jars with beets and onions

25

Remove star anise and ginger slices from pickling liquid and tuck 1 of each into side of each jar

26

Fill jars with pickling liquid, leaving 1/4 inch of space at top, then run a thin knife between vegetables and jar to eliminate air bubbles

27

Seal, process, and store filled jars, boiling beets and onions in jars 20 minutes

28

Let beets and onions stand in jars at least 1 week for flavors to develop