Slow Cooker Pickled Plums

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recipe by Octopus Publishing https://octopusbooks.co.uk/

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    2hrs 50mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    3
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    825

These sweet, tangy pickled plums are delicious paired with sharp and salty cheeses as part of a cheese board. This recipe makes 3 jars so it is ideal as a delicious foodie gift.

recipe updated Dec 22, 2021

Ingredients

  • Garlic clove icon
    Garlic clove
    4
  • Plum icon
    Plum
    1.35 kg
  • White wine vinegar icon
    White wine vinegar
    720 ml
  • Rosemary icon
    Rosemary
    7 sprigs
  • Fresh thyme icon
    Fresh thyme
    7 sprigs
  • Superfine sugar icon
    Superfine sugar
    485 g
  • Bay leaves icon
    Bay leaves
    7
  • Lavender icon
    Lavender
    4 sprigs
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    1 teaspoon
  • Black peppercorns icon
    Black peppercorns
    ½ teaspoon

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Slow cooker
  • kCook icon Jar
  • kCook icon Slow cooker bowl

Step preview

  1. Pour white wine vinegar into a clean slow cooker bowl
  2. Add rosemary and fresh thyme to the vinegar mixture
  3. Pour superfine sugar into the vinegar mixture
  4. Add bay leaves, lavender, garlic clove, salt and black peppercorns to the vinegar mixture
  5. Cover
  6. Cook in slow cooker while stirring occasionally - 2 hr 30 min, high heat
  7. Pre-heat oven - 160°C
  8. Heat 3 clean jars in the oven until sterile
  9. Add plum to the jars carefully
  10. Add rosemary and fresh thyme to the jars
  11. Strain vinegar mixture into 3 jars evenly
  12. Seal tightly
  13. Let cool
  14. Store
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