Zucchini Pickles

We've never tried to pickle our own vegetables. And since a friend gave us a humungous homegrown zucchini - thanks! - we've decided to try it out, following this simple recipe. Ingredients:

• 1.5 kg zucchini
• 5 big onions
• 2 tablespoonful of salt
• 3 cupful of vinegar
• 3 cupful of sugar
• 1 teaspoonful of curry
• 1 teaspoonful of sweet paprika powder
• 1 teaspoonful of mustard seeds
• dill (we omitted that one because we don't really like it)

 From now one we plan to share our experiences with more pics, so here we go:

Almost all ingredients. And two glasses for pickles :-)

The onions that we forgot in the first photo...

Start by peeling the zucchini.

Cut the zucchini. We want to have bite-sized pieces.

Cutting in process :-) we removed the seeds, but that's up to you.

Cut the onions into slices or rings.

Put zucchini+onions into a big pot with a lid.

Add the salt and mix it through.

 Now close the pot with a lid and wait 3 to 4 hours. No kidding! Let the salt do its magic...

4 hours later: add all other ingredients and mix again. Now heat it up until it boils for a moment.

Start putting the still-hot pickles into your pickles glasses. A ladle comes in handy ;-)

First glass filled, on to the second...

All filled and closed, still hot.

Our zucchini pickles the next day.

 So, that was fun. And easy to do. We'll let them stay in our shelf for a while - in a dark and cold place - and tell you later how yummy they were.

Update: we've opened the smaller glass about three weeks later. And it was yummy! We'll definitely prepare them all in smaller glasses the next time - because you can't really stop once you've opened one of them, and that big one is quite big. Mmmmh...

Mahlzeit, everyone!