Thursday, April 9, 2015

Peppadew-Cucumber Relish

One of our local supermarkets has an olive bar that has Peppadew sweet peppers from South Africa as one of its available condiments. They’re roundish orange-red sweet piquanté peppers that come from Limpopo province.

They’re great as a condiment with any meal, but one day, I saw a picture of a sweet-pepper/cucumber relish on a food website. So when I saw Japanese cucumbers from the Big Island’s Ho Farms in the produce section, I grabbed a couple, along with some red onions.

Immediately, I skipped on over to the olive bar and scooped up about a cup of the Peppadews, along with a nice amount of the juice that had accumulated.

When I got home, I diced up the Peppadews, cucumbers and red onions, slipped them into a jar, and saturated the mixture with the Peppadew syrup.

After a couple of days of occasional shaking and turning, I spooned out some of the relish and munched on it like a salad. It was soooo good!

You should try doing this. It is so easy, so delicious, and so refreshing. I recommend it.

Ingredients
  • PEPPADEW SWEET PEPPERS, ¼ cup, with as much juice as you can swipe
  • ENGLISH OR JAPANESE CUCUMBER, 2 medium
  • RED ONION, ½ medium

Directions
  1. Chop the ingredients into ½-inch or ¾-inch pieces.
  2. Mix with the juices.
  3. Store in refrigerator in a jar, shaking often.

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