Pickled eggs look very impressive and have a bright original taste. They can be considered as an independent snack to strong drinks or beer, and can be used to prepare salads, various canapes or snack tartlets. They can also decorate a ready-made dish: for example, salad or herring under a fur coat. There are several recipes for pickled eggs on the site, but this one differs from them in that the result is not two snacks (yellow and red eggs), but as many as four! The recipe is detailed, even a novice hostess can easily cope.
Cook Time | 55 minutes |
Servings |
Ingredients
For the marinade:
- 1 glass Water
- 0,5 glass Vinegar fruit
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Sugar
- 0,5 teaspoon Black pepper peas, lightly minced
- 0,25 teaspoon Thyme seeds, lightly crushed
- 0,25 teaspoon Mustard seed lightly crushed
For red eggs:
- 10 pieces Quail eggs
- 1 piece Beetroot
- 1 piece Onion
Ingredients
For the marinade:
For red eggs:
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Instructions
- First, bake the beetroot: whole, in the oven, at a temperature of 190*C. Readiness can be checked with a wooden skewer. For the marinade, we use baked, not raw beets – this is a fundamental point. First, it will become softer, and secondly, baked beets have a rich sweet taste and it does not have the earthy smell that raw beets have.
- Boil quail eggs: this item, like the next two, is intended for novice Housewives. To prevent the eggs from cracking when cooking, they should be warm, just keep them in warm water for 10-15 minutes. Choose a cooking dish with a wide bottom so that all the eggs fit in one layer. Pre-add a teaspoon of salt and vinegar to the boiling water. Carefully, one at a time, lower the eggs into the boiling water. For a slightly creamy yolk consistency, cook for exactly 1.5 minutes after boiling the eggs. If you want a firm yolk, cook for 3 minutes.
- Prepare the marinade: it will be common for all eggs. Pour water and vinegar into the pan. Vinegar is better to use fruit (I have Apple), for sharpness, you can add 2-3 teaspoons of ordinary table vinegar. Add salt, sugar and spices. Choose spices to your taste, I suggest this set: lightly crushed cumin seeds and mustard (I do it in a mortar, but you can also use a rolling pin for the dough), and black pepper (also a little mash).
- Baked beetroot cut into smooth beautiful cubes – in the future it will become an independent snack (the second, of the promised four). We do not throw away the beet trimmings, they will also be needed. Cut the onion into half rings. Tip: if you have small onions, you can use them instead of the usual onions, getting another spicy snack. Small onions do not need to be cut, add them to the marinade 5 minutes before the end of cooking. Pickled onions-snack №3.
- It remains to shake the jars slightly, cover them with lids and put them in the refrigerator – for a day or at least for the night. These eggs are stored in the refrigerator for a long time - more than a month, it is convenient to have them in stock if you need to quickly prepare some snacks. I want to warn you that beetroot eggs are colored, take this into account. What can be prepared using pickled eggs, see my recipes: "tartlets with pickled egg" and "canapes with pickled eggs and beets". In this photo, eggs that have spent a day in the marinade. They have already acquired a beautiful color and characteristic taste. The longer the eggs stay in the marinade, the richer the color and sharper the taste. Before use, I advise you to dip the egg in some spicy seasoning, such as Svan salt.
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