How to make easy sweet and sour pickled figs at home

Prepare
10 – 20 minutes Processing
20 Minutes For
4 persons

Considered as one of the specialties in Hue, figs can both be eaten directly and can be processed into many delicious dishes such as soups, stews, salads, etc. There is also a rustic dish that is quite popular with many people, which is sweet and sour pickled figs.

To better understand how to make this dish, please refer to the article below with Tnhelearning.edu.vn.

Ingredients for sweet and sour pickled figs

Delicious figs will have green skin, white flesh and pink flesh

• 1kg figs
• Garlic, chili, lemon, ice
• Seasoning: Vinegar, sugar, salt

Good tip
– To buy delicious figs, you should choose the type with young green skin, white flesh, pink inner (intestine), small and medium size. At the same time, avoid choosing fruits with wilted, dull skin, and brown flesh because they are no longer sweet and not as delicious.
– You can buy figs at markets, food stores or e-commerce sites.

How to make sweet and sour pickled figs

Step 1Processing figs

Processing figs

First, you dissolve 3 teaspoons of salt in a bowl of water (about 1 liter) . Then you cut off the stem and peel the figs . To limit the blackening of figs, you should both peel the figs and dip the figs in salt water (or just soak the figs in salt water, and peel them directly in the water).

Next, you dissolve 3 teaspoons of salt and the juice of ¼ lemon in another bowl of water (about 1 liter) . When you’re done , cut the pickled figs earlier into 8 small pieces , then continue to soak in the salted lemon juice you’ve just made (after cutting any fruit, put it in the bowl). After that, wash the figs with water again and take them out to dry.

Note
You can use plastic gloves when peeling figs to avoid sticking to latex.

Step 2Fig

Fig

You boil a pot of water on the stove (water is full of ½ pot), then put the figs in for about 1 minute , then use a sieve to pick them up and immediately soak them in a bowl of ice cold . Soak the figs until the ice melts. When done, take the figs out and let them dry.

Step 3Make fig juice

Make fig juice

Stir together 600ml of vinegar with 600ml of filtered water, 4 teaspoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt, 2 sliced chili peppers and 6 sliced garlic cloves.

Step 4Soak figs

Soak figs

You in turn put the soaked figs and the sugar vinegar water just made into the jar. After that, you pour some leftover sugar vinegar juice into a plastic bag and tie it tightly . When done, you put the bag on top of the soaked figs to ensure that the figs are always submerged in the sugar vinegar.

You only need to soak for about 5 days to be able to enjoy it.

Finished product

Figs after soaking are still crunchy, with a sweet and sour taste that is extremely stimulating to the taste buds

After soaking, figs still retain their beautiful white color and are not darkened. When enjoying, you will feel each piece of figs crunchy, absorbing the sour, sweet and sour taste from the pickled vinegar water. You can eat it with meat, fried dishes, grilled dishes, … all very delicious and strange.

Hopefully, through the above sharing, you already know how to make sweet and sour pickled figs. Now, what are you waiting for without saving the recipe and starting to do it right away.

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