Pickled Shrimp Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 pounds shrimp, peeled and deveined, tails on
• 4 scallions, mostly white, quartered or in eighths lengthwise
• 2 cloves garlic, sliced lengthwise, very thinly
• 1/2 cup lemon juice
• 1/4 cup white-wine vinegar
• 2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons fennel seed
• 1 1/2 teaspoons coriander
• 10 dried chiles, broken once or left whole
• 1 pod cardamom
• 1 lemon, quartered and thinly sliced
• 1 cup olive oil
• 1/4 cup roughly chopped fresh oregano
• a few peppercorns
• 4 bay leaves
• 1/4 onion and/or leek
• 1 clove garlic
• a few sprigs fresh thyme or oregano