Ingredients

• 10 - gherkins (7-cm long)
• 20 button onions
• 20 green chillies, seeded and quartered
• 25 French beans
• 12 small carrots
• 2 cups vinegar
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup salt

How to Make Hot vegetable pickle

• Combine vinegar, sugar and salt and keep aside.
• Scrape and cut beans and carrots.
• Soak the gherkins and peeled onions in just enough water to cover them, add 1/2 cup salt and keep overnight. Drain.
• Keep some fresh water to boil. As soon as it reaches a rolling-boil, add all the vegetables and bring the water back to boil, adding a little more salt.
• Cook till vegetables are just tender, but not soft.
• Bring to a boil the sweetened vinegar and add the vegetables.
• Bring to a boil again and simmer for 5 mins.
• In the meantime, sterilise the glass jars and fill them with the hot pickle.
• Seal and keep in a dark, dry place.
• Ready for the table after a fortnight.