Well - I had all these zucchini's more than I knew what to do with - which is wonderful because that is when I make zucchini relish! And it is a darn good thing I did make it - because my plants have dried up - no more zucchini for me :-( But I did get the one canning of relish in this year and for that I am very thankful!
I started out with several beautiful zucchini's (including one eight ball zucchini). I needed 12 cups diced for the recipe and it was going to be really close. I ended up not having 12 cups, only 10. I adjusted the recipe with my handy-dandy calculator - Jerry. He has a math mind - it is fabulous. Math is one of those things that really shows how women and men think differently. To Jerry it was simple - 80% of the original recipe. To me, well let's just say it wasn't simple. I liked his 80% - especially if he would calculate it for me:-) I got my 3 cups of peppers and 3 cups of onions diced up using the wonderful attachment I have for my kitchenaid and then added salt.
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| Doesn't it look beautiful |
The mixture sat over night and in the morning I rinsed the salt from the mixture.
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| Rinsing |
Then I added the vinegar, sugar and spices and put it on the stove to start heating up.
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| Adding flavor |
Once it got to a rolling boil, 20 minutes. And bam - done.
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| Ready for jars! |
Ladle into jars, wipe the rims, put the lids on, screw the rings on and good! Fabulous and easy! So I entered a jar in the fair - I will let you know how it turns out. I could be a blue ribbon winner you know!!
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| The fruits of the labor |
This zucchini relish is fabulous on soup beans, hot dogs, hamburgers....
I am sharing this post at the
Homestead Barn Hop
We made some too but we used a little different recipe- ours is more yellow. This looks great too. I've never seen a round zuke before.
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