A great way to deal with a glut of zucchini and a tasty addition to your salad repertoire. It goes great alongside BBQ meats but equally so with salmon patties or frittatas.
And if you have a preserving unit, it’s shelf stable for years.
Ingredients
4kg zucchini
3 red onions – sliced thinly
4 red capsicums – sliced
*500g pack of shell pasta – cooked until still firm ~10 mins.
4 x 440g tins red kidney beans – rinsed
1.5L vinegar – white or apple cider
0.5L water
3 cups sugar
3 tbsp mustard seeds (brown and/or white)
1 tbsp dill seeds
1 tbsp celery seeds
1 tbsp turmeric
1/2 cup salt
Method
Slice zucchini thinly. If zucchinis are very large, cut into quarters before slicing. Put in a large mixing bowl and mix through 1/2 cup of salt. Leave for 3 hours. Drain liquid, rinse and drain again.
Put into a large stockpot, add vinegar, water and sugar and bring to a boil. Add mustard seeds, dill seeds, celery seeds and turmeric and boil for 2 mins. Add pasta and red kidney beans and mix well.
At this stage you can load into sterilised jars and allow to cool. Standard advice is to store in a fridge.
To make them shelf stable, load them into preserving jars. I use a Fowlers Preserving Unit. This quantity fills 12 x #27 jars. Bring them up to 92C and hold at this temperature for 90 mins. Check seals and store any that don’t seal properly in the fridge.
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