PEPPADEWS (PIQUANTÉ PEPPERS)

PEPPADEWS (PIQUANTÉ PEPPERS)

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PEPPADEWS (PIQUANTÉ PEPPERS)

Homemade version of the shop-bought South African pickled peppers
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 20 hours
Servings 6 250ml jars

Ingredients

Brining

  • 500 -750 g piquante bell peppers peppadews, red-ripe
  • 60 g coarse salt koshering salt
  • 600 ml water

Pickling

  • 375 ml vinegar white grape vinegar preferred, not spirit vinegar
  • 300 ml sugar white, granulated
  • 250 ml water
  • 4 pieces ginger fresh, peeled
  • 4 garlic cloves peeled, whole
  • 10 ml peppercorns we like the mixed peppercorns
  • 4 bay leaves
  • 2 small hot peppers hot chillis, only remove stem, and keep whole

Instructions

Brining

  • DO wear surgical gloves (from any pharmacy), as the seeds start stinging the hands after a while!
  • Do the 1st Step the night before. Believe me, you’ll find it is necessary!
  • Cut off the stem side of the peppadews, and carefully scrape out the seeds with a small teaspoon. Rinse. Try to remove all seeds.
  • Let the salt dissolve in the water. Then add the prepared peppadews. Make sure they’re all in the brine by putting a plate or similar on top. Leave overnight at room temperature.

Pickling

  • Next day, put six 250ml canning on a firm tin and into a cold oven. Heat oven to between 150C for 15mins
  • Now rinse the brine off the peppadews, rinse briefly with cold water, and leave in a colander to drain.
  • Measure out into a large pot all the ingredients given in Step 2 (except the little green chillies), and stir well over low heat until ALL the sugar has dissolved. Then bring to a rolling, foamy boil.
  • Add peppadews and chillis and boil them for only about 1 minute.
  • Take 250ml canning jars from the oven (be careful). First fill the bottles with peppadews, and then fill to about 1 cm from the top with the boiling liquid.
  • Carefully wipe jars and screw on the lids fingertip tight … do not overtighten
  • Can the jars for 10 mins

Notes

Citations : 
I found the recipe here :  https://www.food.com/recipe/peppadews-piquant-peppers-the-pickling-recipe-449835