Pickled Egg with bonus beet slice.
Pickled eggs are a good way to use the perfect hard-boiled eggs you make in the Instant Pot. If you don’t have your own recipe, please use ours. Peeled hard-boiled eggs are quite perishable, but once pickled these should last a week or so in the fridge.
Ingredients:
Dozen hard-boiled eggs, shelled
14.5 oz can sliced beets (don’t buy pickled, just plain sliced beets)
1 c (approx.) distilled white vinegar
1 T sugar
1 T pickling spice
Sliced onions (optional)
Method: drain the liquid from the beets into a container; reserve the beets. There should be about 1 c beet liquid; mix with an equal amount of distilled white vinegar. Add sugar and pickling spice and stir until sugar is dissolved. Transfer to a quart jar or equivalent container then start layering eggs. Add back the reserved beets between layers of eggs. We like to add some thin-sliced onion as well. If eggs are not fully submerged after layering, add a 50/50 distilled white vinegar/water mixture till covered.
Refrigerate several hours, then rotate eggs in the mix to eliminate any white spots where the eggs have not contacted the pickling liquid. Eggs are ready to enjoy after 24 hours.
After eating a jar of pickles put them in the juice. Then they won’t have that discoloration…
But I like the discoloration! Especially when the eggs are sliced crosswise to reveal that purple sunset giving way to the yellow yolk…
My little joke. Beets are traditional. But. I would think they would last more than “a week or so in the fridge.” Maybe it’s the beets;-) Months with the used pickle juice method. I wouldn’t eat those before several weeks. There are boiling methods too. These are all refrigerator types. Won’t last forever.
I don’t have so many readers I can afford to kill them, so I will always err on the side of caution in food safety statements. I’ve certainly eaten pickled eggs which were fine after a week or longer while they are also excellent to eat as soon as the next day after pickling.
we may be few in number…but very loyal!!!
Thanks!
To preserve your eggs longer, pasteurize them.
To preserve the eggs longer, pasteurize them and the jar.