Chive Blossom Vinegar
Chive Blossom Vinegar is a fun DIY project that is super easy. And it produces tasty vinegar for your salads and other dishes. 
Call me a sucker for a pretty pink. Or a shameless salad lover, for whom a flavored vinegar or oil can bring delight. Either way, when I saw chive blossom vinegar all over the internet, I had to have it.
I tend to enjoy an occasional DIY type project. Especially those done with found or free items. Grape juice from wild grapes? Check. Make your own gift bags from branded shopping bags? Count me in. 
DIY projects can be fun and productive but tend to require some actual work. Happily this chive blossom vinegar is an exception. It requires only about 5 minutes of effort exclusive of the walk to the garden. And you could hardly call a garden stroll work!
The method is simple. You start by picking a jarful of chive blossoms… 
Cover with white distilled vinegar. 
Weight the blossoms down. Anything above the surface of the vinegar has the potential to rot. Then you’d get brown vinegar (ask me how I know this). 
Wait a week or two until the vinegar is pink and flavorful. Strain and use in any recipe that could benefit from overtones of onion. 
The resulting vinegar was beautiful and delicious in a nice vinaigrette. Now I can’t wait to try it in cole slaw dressing. 
The only thing I’d do differently is to make a little more since once you strain the chives blossoms out, there is always less than you’d think.
And finally, my apologies for posting it so late. I know that most of the chive blossoms are gone now. But I didn’t want to take the chance this would get lost. Pin for next year? 
Chive Blossom Vinegar
Ingredients
- 1 cup chive blossoms
- 1 cup white distilled vinegar
Instructions
- Rinse chive blossoms and shake dry (ish). Place in glass container such as a canning jar.
- Top with white distilled vinegar, then weight down so chive blossoms stay below the vinegar surface.
- Wait 1-2 weeks until pink and fragrant, then strain and use where you’d use flavored vinegar.
Nutrition
That is so beautiful, Inger! And I bet it tastes as good as it looks! Sadly, chive blossom season was ages ago here…. I will have to wait till next year!
I’ve always loved chive vinegar, not only for its taste but the lovely color it develops as it matures.
I made blueberry vinegar once and the colour was lovely. This pink is so subtle and perfect as is for the table. Now I’m going to plant chives.
You’ll love having chives!
I still have some chive blossoms and will try this . Thank you!
Have fun!
This is interesting, never tried anything like this. Love the colour too!
I’m working on cherry pit vinegar now–and can’t wait to see that color!
Oh Inger, this is so amazing…I have never thought in using chive blossoms to add flavor to vinegar…thanks for this post.
Have a great rest of the week!
And even better–it’s super easy!
Beautiful. I have really been enjoying working with vinegars this summer and the health benefits are real.
I should look more at the health benefits Tammy–beyond a good salad 🙂 !