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Sunday, June 10, 2012
Chive Blossom Vinegar
Chive blossoms make the most beautiful vinegar. Simply harvest your chive blossoms and put them in a wide mouth jar with a plastic lid. (Vinegar eats through metal and cork.) A mayonnaise jar is perfect. You don't have to pack them tight in there but it needs to be quite full. Next add white wine vinegar or a rice wine vinegar will work as well. You want it to be a white vinegar so that the beautiful color of the chive blossoms will show off. Let it sit for a month. The chive blossoms will get brown and fall to the bottom of the jar. After a month, strain the vinegar. Ideally strain the vinegar through a coffee filter for extra clarity in the vinegar and then you have a lovely colored vinegar to use for Omelets or bean salad or to marinate meat or add to veggie soup or spaghetti sauce or....
I have chive blossoms and must try this. Thanks for the tip.
ReplyDeleteMine were gone in an instant this year. No chive blossom vinegar for me.:(
ReplyDeleteOooh, I bet that makes it a really pretty color! Not to mention the flavor.
ReplyDeleteNever heard of this type of vinegar but I do believe I'd be willing to give it a try, so thanks for the info!
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