American · Preserve / ferment
Crisp Pickled Pumpkin or Squash
Salted pumpkin cubes canned in a mildly sweet cider-vinegar syrup with ginger, garlic and warm spices. They stay firm and crisp, with the pumpkin flavor sharpened rather than disguised.

- YieldServes 8
- Hands-on1 h 50 min
- Total21 d
- Difficulty
Ingredients
- 800 gpumpkin or winter squash, peeled, seeded and cut into 2 cm cubes (about 1 3/4 lb, 4 1/2 cups)
- 1 tbsppickling salt
Spice bag
- 2whole cloves
- 4whole black peppercorns, crushed
- ½Mediterranean bay leaf, crumbled
Syrup
- 240 mlcider vinegar (5 percent acidity), 1 cup
- 100 gsugar, 1/2 cup
- 2 slicesfresh ginger, thin, cut into slivers
- 1½ clovesgarlic, chopped
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