Swedish beetroots. Photo: Steven Senne/TT/AP
Pickled beetroot. Photo: John Duxbury/Swedish Food
Swedes are experts at pickling, since the country's harsh winters used to mean they had to use this method to preserve foods and late summer is the best time of year to jar up vegetables such as beetroot (inlagda rödbetor). Food writer John Duxbury's shares his tips with The Local.