Pickled pink garlic with beets

In the winter season, salads, pastas and snacks containing garlic often appear on everyday and festive tables. The appearance of a pungent smell and pungent bitterness often stops the desire to taste the salad, but there is always a way out.

Pickled garlic with beets is a classic combination of ingredients. Many people remember how, from childhood, parents put spicy grated beet salad seasoned with mayonnaise in a plate in order to prevent respiratory diseases and strengthen immunity. But children are not so easy to persuade to eat such a spicy dish. It can be replaced with pink garlic marinated with beets. Once cooked, the bright "cheerful" cloves of this lobular plant can seem funny and earn the trust of little gourmets. And for adults, such a dish will become indispensable in the kitchen as a spice and an interesting snack.

Pickled garlic cloves with beets

The main thing in such a preparation is garlic, so you will need a lot of it. The amount of ingredients is taken per 1 kg of garlic and 1 liter of water (for marinade).

For pickling you will need:

• a kilogram of garlic;
• 2 pcs. medium-sized beets;
• 125 ml vinegar;
• 4 carnations;
• 6 peppercorns;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of salt and sugar;
• water.

During the day, the marinade in jars may become slightly cloudy and darken. Don't worry - this is a normal process. You need to store such a workpiece in the refrigerator so that a violent fermentation process does not begin.

Marinate garlic with beets until it is young, saturated with juices and has not lost its elasticity.

Cooking process:

1. Peel the garlic from the coarse husk. Divide into wedges. Rinse and peel the beets.
2. Dip the wedges in boiling water for 3 minutes, then rinse with cold water.
3. Fold the garlic cloves into the prepared container.
4. Cut raw beets into slices and distribute them in layers of garlic jars.
5. Pour the marinade over the contents.

Preparing the marinade:

1. Boil water with sugar and salt.
2. Add spices and boil for a couple of minutes.
3. Add vinegar.

Garlic prepared according to this recipe will be usable in 3-4 days.

To marinate garlic with beets for the winter, it should be decomposed in a pre-sterilized container. It is also worth boiling already filled jars for 5 minutes, covering the bottom of the pan with a towel.

It is also necessary to close the conservation with sterile lids, screwing them tightly. At the same time, the marinade is poured just boiled. Then the cans are set upside down on a flat surface and wrapped in a thick cloth or blanket. So the conservation cools down, and then it is removed for storage in the cellar or basement.

Pickled Pink Garlic with Beetroot Recipe

It is not necessary to use completely peeled garlic for harvesting. It can be pickled with whole heads.

Whole Garlic Pickling Process:

1. Peel the garlic, while removing only the upper thick layer of husk, leaving a thin skin that unites the cloves.
2. Boil the heads in boiling water for about 3 minutes.
3. Throw in a colander and drain, or put on a towel and pat dry.
4. Grate beets or cut into slices.
5. Divide the ingredients into jars and pour over the marinade.

For pickling, you can only use beet juice squeezed from mashed root vegetables.In this case, it must be boiled separately, and then mixed with the marinade.

Preparing the marinade:

1. Boil a liter of water with salt and sugar (50 grams each).
2. Add to dried dill (twigs can be used), bay leaf, pepper, coriander.
3. Let the marinade brew a little and add vinegar.
4. Pour the spicy marinade over the garlic and seal the jars.

Instant recipe

For those who do not have time, a quick recipe for pickled garlic with beets is suitable. For this garlic boiled longer - about 5 minutes, poured with a more concentrated marinade (you need to increase the amount of salt, vinegar and sugar by 1 tablespoon) with the addition of vegetable oil warmed up with spices (2 tablespoons).

After two days, kept in the refrigerator, you can taste the finished dish.

When pickled, garlic does not lose its beneficial properties, and it continues to have antiviral and antimicrobial effects. At the same time, its taste and aroma are softened, and the beets acquire an interesting garlic smell.

Garlic marinated with beets should be rinsed with cold water before serving. Serve it in a salad bowl, spreading it with herbs, beetroot slices and, if desired, seasoning with fragrant oil. You can also place it on the same platter with different pickles. This garlic is also used in the preparation of other dishes as a dressing.