How to Pickle Garlic

Find out how to pickle garlic with Sarson's easy pickling recipe. Get inspired by our many mouth-watering recipes using vinegar.

Make this using Sarson’s Malt Vinegar.

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Ingredients

  • 300g Garlic bulbs
  • 300ml Sarsons Malt vinegar
  • 1tsp fennel seeds
  • 12 pink peppercorns
  • 3 bay leaves
  • 50g granulated sugar
  • pinch of saffron

Method

  1. Put the garlic in a large bowl and tip over a kettle of boiling water. Leave for 20 seconds then pour into a colander, return to the bowl and pour over lots of very cold water. The skins should now peel off very easily.
  2. Put the vinegar, sugar and saffron into a saucepan, bring to the boil and simmer for a minute or two.
  3. Put the peeled garlic into a 500ml sterilised Kilner® Jar adding the fennel, peppercorns and bay as you go. Carefully tip the hot vinegar into a jug then pour over the garlic completely covering the bulbs.
  4. Seal and leave to stand for a week.

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