Vegetable Pickle

Vegetable pickle is high in dietary fiber along with vitamin A and C. Raw pickles may offer additional health benefits. According to author Rebecca Wood, pickling can make vegetables more digestible, neutralize naturally occurring anti-nutrients, and replenish the gut flora needed for smooth digestion. Wood notes that the unpasteurized pickles eaten on a raw food diet are more healthful than pasteurized varieties, because the heating process destroys the helpful micro-flora that grows during the pickling and fermenting process.

It’s thought the first pickles were produced over 4,000 years ago using cucumbers native to India. Ever since, people around the world have touted their nutritional value, and even healing power.
And, while the idea of pickled vegetables may sound vaguely distasteful, this ancient form of preparation and preservation can actually give really delicious results. The idea of pickling is to create an environment that is inhospitable to the microbes, which would normally cause food to decay.
This is usually done using a combination of salt, acid, and/or fermentation with bacteria. In some cases, spices, oil, and sugar are also added.   This is the original pickling method, which has been an essential part of healthy human diets for thousands of years.
On the one hand, the fiber in pickled vegetables is roughly the same as with cooked vegetables. Fat soluble vitamins, such as A, D, E and K, are also retained during pickling and thus providing extra nutrition.

Ingredients:

3 cups of water, 1 ½ cup white vinegar, 4 tbsp salt, 2 tbsp white sugar, one glass jar of 3 liters, 4 -5 medium size carrots, 3 turnips, 3 small beets, 2 medium size cauliflower, 5-6 cloves of garlic.

Method:

Wash, peel off and cut all the vegetables into pieces except cloves of garlic.

In the glass jar put these vegetables tightly till the brim.

Mix the water, vinegar, sugar and salt in a separate jar.  Shake it well.

Pour over the vegetables.

Leave the jar in the Sun for one afternoon and then put it in the refrigerator.