Pickled Apples

Have you ever eaten pickled apples? No neither had we until a customer brought us a jar to try, they're very good, especially with cheese or pork.

Here's our customer's recipe:

INGREDIENTS:

700 grams apples ( approx 7 - 10 dessert apples depending on size) peeled, cored & quartered 
500 ml cider vinegar
120 grams white sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cinnamon stick
1 tsp fennel seeds
3 cloves
1/2 tsp of black peppercorns
1 star anise

METHOD:

Dissolve the salt and sugar in the cider vinegar by warming in a saucepan.

Add the spices and simmer gently for about 15 minutes.

Pack the prepared apples into a preserving jar then pour the spicy vinegar over them filling the jar to the top.

Seal the jar.

You can serve the pickled apples within a few hours if you like but the longer you leave them the more intense the flavour, if the jar is sealed properly they should be okay (unopened) for months. Once open refrigerate and use within a few days.