Hey everybody! Welcome to Extreme Food Reviews, my name is Daniel and today
we're back in my kitchen making...pickles!
Now, some of you may think that making
pickles is difficult but this is a
really simple recipe that you can do in
your own kitchen with very few
ingredients, so let's get to it! So the
first thing we're gonna do is grab some
peppers for this particular recipe. Now
I've got three habaneros and I've got
six Thai chilies... and all we want to do
with these is remove the tops and slice
them in half. On the Thai chilies, we just
want to take off the tops and then what
we want to do is just cut them down into
some smaller pieces that'll float nicely
inside of our pickling jar. We also have
garlic. Now you can use fresh garlic or
you can use minced garlic in a jar, I
personally prefer fresh garlic, so what we're
gonna do here is take four cloves of
garlic. The easiest way to open a clove
of garlic, for those of you haven't done
it, is take your knife, press it over the
clove and hit it with your fist. That
will open up the garlic so you can pull
it free. Don't hold it this way and hit
it here or you'll be opening up your
hand instead of the garlic. So now all
you want to do is take your garlic and
you want to just chop that up into
slightly smaller pieces. Now let's take
this over to the stove. So now we're back
at the stove with my favorite cast iron
pan. What we want to do is take a little
olive oil and drizzle it in to prep the
pan and we want to take our peppers and
our garlic and put them right into the
pan to let them brown up. Now some of
you might remember from our "How to Make Hot Sauce"
video, that we're just trying
to put these peppers in here to open
them up and bring the flavors out... I'll
put a link to it up here in the corner.
Now while our peppers are cooking, we're
gonna put our water and vinegar into a
pot and get it to boil.
We'll take one and a half cups of water
and one cup of white vinegar.
To this we want to add an 1/8th of a cup
of regular granulated, white sugar... 2
teaspoons of whole coriander... we want to
add two teaspoons of whole peppercorns
and we want to add two teaspoons of dill
seed. You want the whole seed so grab two
teaspoons of dill SEED. We also want to
add two tablespoons of pickling salt. Now
you can use pickling salt, canning and
pickling salt or you can also use kosher
salt works really well. We also want to
add two teaspoons of whole-grain mustard
and you want to bring all of this to a
boil. Now to this we want to add the
peppers and garlic that we just browned
up in our cast-iron pan. Once that hits a
boil, just turn the heat down to low and
cover the pot to let those flavors meld
together. Now we're back at our cutting
board and what I have here our pickling
cucumbers. I don't know if you've seen
these before
but they're usually readily available in
your local supermarket. You can use
regular cucumbers if you want, I prefer
these. It's a little more of a
traditional look especially the way I
like to cut them because of the size.
Now you can cut them in any direction. You can cut them into slices, you can do them
into spears... I prefer Spears so that's
what I'm gonna go for. Now this recipe
will make up to two jars of pickles and
it usually takes anywhere from two to
three pickles per jar to fill a jar
depending on the size of your mason jar
but I'm only making one jar pickles
today. So there we have our sliced up
cucumbers and I've got a fresh mason jar
nice and clean ready to go. So what we
want to do is take as many of these
cucumber spears as I can get in here...
which seems to be all of them, which
works out great'
Three seems to fill that jar up somewhat
nicely. We want to leave room for the
other spices to move around in there. Now let's get our pot from the stove.
So now we have our pot of all our pickling
juices and peppers put together and all
we want to do is get that into our jar.
Look at that, perfect fit. You want to take
your canning jar lid put it on tightly
move it around nicely. That jar is gonna
get hot, so be careful!  I have Teflon fingers.
This is going to end up being a
fantastic, spicy pickle that will be
flavorful, fresh and something that's not
always as easy to find in your grocery
store... and it's a good way to use up all
those nice habaneros, Thai chilies... that
you have in your kitchen. Come on now,
tell me that doesn't look delicious!
All you want to do is put these in the
refrigerator let them sit overnight for
all the flavors to meld together and
you're gonna have one fantastic spicy
pickle! So there you have it guys, a super
simple, spicy pickle recipe that you can
make right in your own kitchen with some
really simple ingredients and the
peppers that we all seem to have kicking
around our house after making that hot
sauce. If you like what you've seen here
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much for tuning in!  Peace and pickles.
