Pickled Chayote.
You can have Pickled Chayote using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Pickled Chayote
- It's 3 of medium chayote.
- You need 1 1/2 cup of soy sauce.
- It's 1/2 cup of water.
- You need 1 cup of vinegar.
- Prepare 1 cup of sugar.
- Prepare 2 of big cloves of garlic.
- Prepare 2 slices of ginger (1/2 inch).
Pickled Chayote instructions
- Wash and dry chayote with paper towel. Cut into quarters, remove seeds. Place in stainless bowl. Skin side up..
- Put soy sauce, water, vinegar and sugar in a pot. Bring to boiling point. Boil for another 3 minutes. Pour over chayote..
- Let it cool down for 1 hour. After one hour, transfer chayote and soy sauce liquid into glass jar, add ginger and garlic. Close lid. Keep in cool place. No need to refrigerate..
- After 3 days, remove chayotes into a bowl, pour soy sauce into a pot and boil for 5 minutes (this step is to evaporate any moisture rendered from the chayotes). Cool completely..
- Put back chayotes into jar, this time, put the one that was on the top to the bottom, and vice versa..
- After another 3 days, repeat steps 4 and 5. Keep in cool place..
- These pickled chayotes can be kept for a long time.The ones you see in the picture are about 5 months old. They are very crunchy..
