Pickled Beets (Cwikla)

"A great Polish side dish for all you beet lovers.Serve over greens for a nice salad or all alone. Check out my polish Potato and Beet Salad recipe #66870 which has beets in it. We serve the potato salad for Easter."
 
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Ready In:
20mins
Ingredients:
7
Yields:
4 cups
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ingredients

  • 3 cups sliced cooked fresh beets or 3 cups canned beets
  • 1 large onion, sliced into thin rings
  • 1 tablespoon grated fresh horseradish or 4 teaspoons prepared horseradish
  • 8 whole cloves or 1/2 teaspoon caraway seed
  • 2 cups vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 2 teaspoons salt
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directions

  • Layer beets and onions in a glass or earthenware bowl, sprinkling layers with horseradish and cloves.
  • Boil vinegar with sugar and salt 2 minutes.
  • Pour over the beets.
  • Cover; refrigerate 24 hours.

Questions & Replies

  1. Can I water can this recipe?
     
  2. Can I store them for winter?
     
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Reviews

  1. Wish I could give this recipe more than five stars! I used to run when my mom had beets but these are wonderful. I did use 2 cans of beets but 3 would have been better. The horseradish was prepared and I used caraway seeds instead of cloves. Perfect sweet and sour flavor, will be making these again! Thank you Rita for a great recipe. Made and reviewed for ZWT 4.
     
  2. Thanks for a great recipe. Unlike a lot of pickled beets, these weren't too sweet. I opted for caraway seeds, rather than cloves. I didn't have any white vinegar on hand, so I used 1 cup sherry vinegar and 1 cup rice vinegar. And I upped the sugar to 2 Tbsp because I find sherry vinegar pretty pungent. I'll make it that way again next time. I prepared the pickles the day before we ate them and was worried that wouldn't give them enough time for their flavors to meld, but they tasted great.
     
  3. In 26 years, we didn't know that both LL and DH love pickled beets! This is a fancier variety than we're used to thinking of, and it's delicious. Loved the touch of caraway! Snuck under the wire for ZWT4!
     
  4. My husband's exact words, "these are the best pickled beets I've ever had." I used 3 large fresh beets (boiled until soft) with 3/4 of a large yellow onion. I didn't have any horseradish, and used a couple of shakes of ground cloves instead. I doubled the sugar per another reviewer's recommendation, and used half white vinegar, half apple cider vinegar. Thanks for sharing -- this is going to be my pickled beet recipe from now on!
     
  5. This was too sour for us too.. pity becuase I like beetroot a lot. Maybe I will try again with slightly less vinegar, in the meantime it was for us at least a bit overpowering. Please see my rating system: 3 stars :) Thanks!
     
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Tweaks

  1. Wish I could give this recipe more than five stars! I used to run when my mom had beets but these are wonderful. I did use 2 cans of beets but 3 would have been better. The horseradish was prepared and I used caraway seeds instead of cloves. Perfect sweet and sour flavor, will be making these again! Thank you Rita for a great recipe. Made and reviewed for ZWT 4.
     
  2. These pickled beets are very good easy to make. Nice and spicy. I used the cloves instead of caraway seeds. Next time I will use less horseradish in them as I almost added to much as I cut the recipe in half for the 2 of us. Thank you Rita.
     

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