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Baywatch rose pickles

By
16 December 2025
2
Easy
20 minutes

“If you know, you know that Pamela Anderson is making pickles now. As part of a project in collaboration with Flamingo Estate, she developed a jar of what they call rose pickles. I was so inspired, I decided to make my own: actual rosebuds that you can eat!” – Khanya Mzongwana

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Ingredients

Method
  • 12 mini cucumbers
  • 3 cups white wine vinegar
  • 2 cups water
  • 200 g white sugar
  • 1 T salt
  • 10 g dill, chopped
  • 12 pesticide-free rosebuds (remove the outer petals of a bunch of pink roses)

Method

Ingredients

Combine all the ingredients and place in a sterilised jar. Store in the fridge for up to a month.

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Production: Khanya Mzongwana
Photographer: Toby Murphy
Food Assistant: Chevonne Fourie
Khanya Mzongwana

Recipe by: Khanya Mzongwana

If you're anything like our deputy food editor Khanya Mzongwana, you're obsessed with uniqueness and food with feeling. Cook her family-tested favourites, midweek winners and her mouth-wateringly fresh takes on plant-based eating.

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