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Pickling Beetroot Recipes
Leggi
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Hi all, just wondring if any of you guys have a tasty recipe for pickling beetroots as I was given a fair few yesterday (would like to say I'd grown them myself but alas, no). I have done it in the past but the colour leeched from the roots so I guess I did something wrong.
Any advice and tasty tips would be more than welcome. 
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Cook leaving some stalk and not cutting root. Won't ''bleed' then. Slide skin off, take off root & stalks Just slice them and put in a jar, vinegar on top to cover. Different vinegars make a change - try white malt, cyder vinegar, raspberry vinegar. A splash of balsamic vinegar, either when you serve some pickled beetroot, or added to malt vinegar in the jar when you do it is nice for a change.
Also nice is 'Beetroot in Jelly' a recipe my Mum used over 50 years ago when we had guests - made an 'extra' to put on the table when we had salad:
Slice beetroot into a bowl and cover with blackcurrant jelly, made up as instructions on jelly packet. Put in fridge to set.
Hope this helps.
Thank you russianmama, I'll certainly use your pickle recipe. I skinned the beetroots last time I tried it, that's why they must have lost their colour when I boiled them.
I'm not sure I'm adventurous enough for beetroot and blackcurrant jelly, but if I get given any more I'll try it.
Thanks again
I know you asked for pickling beetroot recipes but this is great and easy too.
Beetroot Chutney
3lbs Beetroot
1lb Sugar
1pt Vinegar
2 Dessert spoons Cornflour
½ Dessert spoon of Gelatine
Wash, peel and grate beetroot.
Put vinegar & sugar in a pan and bring to the boil.
Add beetroot & cook for 5 minutes.
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Dissolve the gelatine in a little vinegar.
Mix the Cornflour with a little vinegar.
Add them both to the beetroot.
Cook till thickened.
Put into jars.
Failure is always an option.