2 easy ways to make pickled jujubes that are addictive to eat

Mix the fish sauce for pickling figs

You put into a bowl 1 cup of fish sauce, 2 cups of water, 1/2 teaspoon of MSG and stir well until the MSG is mostly dissolved.

Prepare the ingredients

After buying the figs, wash them thoroughly and soak them in diluted salt water for about 20 minutes to remove the bitterness, then wash them again!

Remove the stems from the chilies, peel the garlic, and wash them clean, then let them drain.

Soak the figs

Put 3 chilies, 5 cloves of garlic, and half the amount of figs into a glass jar one by one, then add the remaining chilies, garlic, and figs into the jar.

Next, gradually pour the prepared fish sauce for soaking figs into the jar until the figs are just submerged, then cover with a piece of plastic wrap and seal the lid tightly.

Soak the figs for 4 – 5 days until the soaking liquid turns slightly cloudy, the figs smell of fish sauce, garlic, and chili, and turn yellow, then they are ready to enjoy!

Final Product

The fragrant and appealing garlic chili sauce soaked figs are now ready!

The figs are aromatic and visually appealing. A bite reveals a crispy texture soaked in the enticing garlic chili sauce! This dish can be enjoyed alone or with plain rice for an extra flavor boost!

Pound the Spices

First, you put into the mortar 1/2 cup of sliced bird’s eye chili, 1/2 cup of sliced horn chili, 15 cloves of garlic, 2 tablespoons of sliced lemongrass, 2 tablespoons of sliced galangal, and use a pestle to pound until the ingredients are well mixed together as shown.

Mix the Fish Sauce

You add to a bowl 120gr of granulated sugar, 120ml of fish sauce, 50ml of filtered water, 50ml of calamondin juice, 1 tablespoon of shredded kaffir lime leaves, 100gr of halved calamondin, and stir well to dissolve some of the sugar.

Prepare the figs

The figs you bought should be soaked in diluted salt water, then washed thoroughly and drained.

Cut off the stem of the figs and then cut the figs in half.

Prepare a bowl of clean water and add 1 teaspoon of salt, the juice of half a lemon, then stir well and soak the figs for 15 minutes.

After that, take the figs out and rinse them several times with clean water and let them drain.

Soak the figs

Put the cleaned figs into a glass jar and then add the tamarind sauce from step 2 into the jar, tightly seal the lid and soak the figs for 8 hours.

Final Product

The final product of figs soaked in salted tắc has an eye-catching color and is also delicious.

Figs are crispy, fragrant, rich, with the sourness and sweetness of tắc, sugar, and fish sauce mixed with the spicy taste of garlic and chili, the more you eat, the more you love it. Surely everyone in your family will love this dish!