NYONYA GARLIC PICKLE

Ingredients:

300 grms small garlic pips skinned whole.
Little sugar
Little salt
Enough vinegar to soak all the garlic.


3 tbs red chillie paste
4 tbs shallot paste
2 tbs oil, or little more
Little sugar
Little salt
Little vinegar.

Method:

Peel the garlic pips and leave them whole.
Dry the garlic well, put them in a dry bottle.
Add in the salt, sugar and fill the container with vinegar
to cover the garlic. Leave it aside for 3 days.
After 3 days, drain all the vinegar. Discard the vinegar.

Heat a wok with the oil. add in the chillie paste and shallot paste.
Cook on medium heat till the raw smell goes and oil seperates.
Now add in the drained garlic pips. Give a good stir.
Add in little salt and sugar to taste.
Add in also new vinegar. Stir nicely, do not allow the garlic to cook.
The garlic pips should be still crunchy.
Remove, let it cool nicely. Store in glass bottle.

NOTE: You can less the chillie paste and onion paste if you want less sambal in the pickle.