No special equipment here folks for these Quick Spicy Pickled Tomatoes! Toss your ingredients in a bowl and some counter and fridge time and you are good to go!
All you need is a heatproof bowl big enough to hold all the ingredients so they can steep overnight. They need 3 days in the fridge to actual ‘pickle’. You can leave them in the bowl and then tranfer to jars or you can jar right away and let them ‘pickle’ in the jars.
These come from a recipe Vivian Howard calls ‘Red Weapons’. Mine were not hot enough to be considered a ‘weapon’ but I think that was a good thing. You can adjust the heat to your taste but I like the idea of an ‘easy’ side for omelettes or quesadillas. If you are using them with Mexican food like quesadillas or tacos treat them like salsa and you can add more green salsa or jalapeno for heat to your taste.
My girlfriend has used them beside her omelette and in a tofu stiry fry. I have used them in cheese quesadillas and scoops of the oil/juice and whatever solids came with it in a pasta salad. The salad was an immediate hit! I added a few fresh cherry tomatoes and onions etc and it was a good complement.
You could also garnish avocado toast, add some to a soup or stew for some oomph… just use your imagination. It would even be good drizzle on a hamburger!
Chef’s Tips
- Quantities are forgiving – you are basically going for a tomato with some spicy notes.
- You can use any kind of tomato you have on hand or want to use up. Roma, salad tomatoes, cherry tomatoes.
- Onions can be green, sweet, red or good old yellow.
- Don’t like ginger? Leave it out… (but it is good!)
- These will keep sealed in the fridge for 3 months. Don’t freeze them – they will turn mushy.
Equipment
- 1 large heatproof, non reactive bowl
Ingredients
- 2 lbs tomatoes of your choice
- 1 cup onions thinly sliced and quartered if large rounds
- 5 jalapenos sliced thin, seeds removed See Note 3.
- 3 Tbsps fresh ginger minced or grated
- 3 Tbsps garlic minced
- 1 1/2 Tbps mustard seeds yellow or brown
- 1 Tbsp ground cumin
- 4 tsps coarse salt
- 1 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1/2 cup unseasoned rice wine vinegar
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar packed
- 1 1/2 cups olive oil
Instructions
- Quarter tomatoes lengthwise. (Or halve cherry tomatoes). Put them in a large heat proof bowl big enough to hold all ingredients.
- Bring all ingredients, EXCEPT tomatoes and olive oil, in a large Dutch oven to a boil over medium heat. Boil 1 minute. Add olive oil and return to a boil. Pour over the tomatoes and press them to make sure they are submerged.
- Let the tomatoes come to room temperature, cover loosely and leave them on the counter overnight. Transfer bowl to the fridge for 3 days. See Note 1 if fridge space is an issue.
- After 3 days, allow mixture to warm enough for oil to liquify. Stir well and transfer mixture to sterile jars, seal and refrigerate up to 3 months. See Note 2.
Notes
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