Sweet Pickle Recipe – Pumpkin Pickle Recipe

Pumpkin pickle recipe ingredients:

• 2 kilogram pumpkin
• 1 liter water
• 500 ml vinegar
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 teaspoon green pepper seeds
• 1 teaspoon mustard seeds

Syrup recipe ingredients:

• 250 ml vinegar
• 1 kilogram sugar
• 1 lemon (lemon zest and juice)
• 1 ginger root, grated

Sweet pickle recipe instruction:

Peel and clean pumpkin, remove its seeds and cut it in 1 inch dice shape.

Mix 1 liter water and 500 ml of vinegar. Pour that over pumpkin pieces in deep dish, cover it and leave it like this over night.

For syrup cook sugar in vinegar, add lemon zest and juice, ginger and let them boil.

Drain pumpkin pieces and add them in boiling syrup to boil 5 minutes more.

Take pumpkin pieces out from syrup and place them in clean jars together with bay leaves, pepper and mustard seeds.

Continue to cook syrup, till it thickens.

Pour hot syrup over pumpkin pieces in the jars, seal them and process for 15 minutes in boiling water bath.