Chive Blossom Vinegar is a homestead special, as in you’d be hard to find this anywhere to purchase outside your home!
This vinegar is great for upcoming summer salads, marinades, dips, or even to use in upcoming pickling recipes.
Here I go into tools, ingredients, instructions on how to make your own Chive Blossom Vinegar.
Let’s Dive in…
Chive Blossom Vinegar Recipe
You can use both garlic chives or regular chives, although regular chives are more commonly used.
How much you make depends on how many blossoms you have! A couple good handfuls can fill a quart jar.
Apple cider vinegar holds many health benefits, versus white vinegar which I why I choose to use it (shown in pictures). Chives are also very healthy for you; they provide a good boost in vitamin K, which is important to bone and immune health, along with helping your digestive tract.
Choose whichever vinegar you can afford.
Tools you Need
- Mason jar with lid: what size you use will depend on how many chives blossoms you can harvest
Ingredients
- Chive blossoms (as much as you can harvest)
- Vinegar: can be apple cider vinegar or white vinegar
Instructions
- Harvest your chive blossoms. Make sure to grab them at their peak before they get too dry, but make sure they are all the way open. Chive plants will give off a few rounds of blossoms in the spring. So just pick the ones that are all the way open but not dry. Some stems are fine.
- Clean the blossoms gently with running water to get bugs off.
- Place your blossoms in a jar, filling up to the top.
- Pour vinegar over blossoms, making sure they are all submerged. It’s best to fill to the top of the jar so no discoloration happens.
- Tighten lid on finger tight.
- Let sit for 1-2 weeks. Vinegar should take on a pink/red-ish color at the end. If you want a bright pink vinegar, use white vinegar.
- Strain blossoms out and put it in a handy spot to use in your kitchen!
Vinegar does not have an expiration date. If you wish to store this for winter use, place in a cool, dry, area, similar to your dry goods. Make sure this is in a glass jar, not plastic or metal!
That’s It!
Like mentioned above, anywhere you need a splash of vinegar you can use chive blossom vinegar in soups, stews, dressings, marinades, pickles, dips, fire ciders, etc.
Vinegar is a great wine replacement in recipes, also, and this one gives you a bit of an onion flavor oomph to your recipe.
But act fast because chive blossoms are very seasonal in the spring!
Enjoy!
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