Showing posts with label conserving fruits and vegetables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conserving fruits and vegetables. Show all posts

Oct 29, 2010

Aubergines preserved in Oil

Preserved Aubergines in oil
Ingredients:
2 kg aubergines
garlic
Origano
1 l of white wine vinegar
Olive oil
Salt
red pepper

Wash the aubergines and peel if you like (optional)
cut into 1/2 cm pieces, spread salt and leave to seep out the water.

After few hours ,(put vinegar to boil with same amount of water) rinse and put them for 2 minutes in boiling vinegar-water mixture.

remove them and leave to drip all the water in an inclined surface.
Then put into vases alternating with Origano, garlic and red pepper. Fill with olive oil making sure you don't leave bubbles of air and that the oil covers the vegetables well.
Close tightly and sterelize for 30 minutes.

Ps. In the image above instead of boiling them I grilled them.

Mediterranean Diet: Fish, chicken, lots of vegetables, olive oil and fruits

Jan 14, 2010

Cape Goose Berries: Rich in Vit. A, C, Iron and Phosphorous

Cape Goose Berries: Rich in Vit. A, C, Iron and Phosphorous
This is going to sound crazy, I went to the supermarket to do my weekly shopping and was really surprised to find this fruit in the shelves.
My father cultivates lots of fruits and he also likes to keep some really wild fruits like this one as we used to call it. I personally hated this fruit...Im about to change my mind and might ask my Dad to start cultivating it seriously.

This is the fruit: Image from the net.

a nice resource I found is this
http://capegooseberry.com/recipes.html

cape goose berries

Make marmalade, jam etc