Indulge your taste buds in a delightful culinary journey with our collection of sweet pickle recipes, crafted from ripe cucumbers. These pickles, bursting with vibrant colors and tantalizing flavors, offer a unique twist on the classic pickle. From the tangy Sweet Cucumber Pickles to the mildly spicy Hot Sweet Pickles and the aromatic Sweet Mustard Pickles, each recipe promises a symphony of flavors that will elevate your meals. These sweet pickles are not only a delightful addition to sandwiches, salads, and charcuterie boards but also make thoughtful and unique gifts for friends and family. With easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step guidance, these recipes cater to both novice and experienced cooks. Embark on this pickling adventure and discover the irresistible charm of sweet pickles made from ripe cucumbers.
Here are our top 10 tried and tested recipes!
BEST EVER SWEET PICKLES
I pack away homegrown cucumbers every summer. This recipe is based on the pickled veggies in Brown Eggs and Jam Jars by Aimee Wimbush-Bourque, but I've made it less mustardy and more garlicky to fit my family's tastes. This method keeps them incredibly, refreshingly crunchy. -Ellie Martin Cliffe, Taste of Home Digital Deputy Editor
Provided by Taste of Home
Time 1h10m
Yield 4 pints.
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- In a large nonreactive bowl, combine cucumbers, onion and salt. Cover with crushed ice and mix well. Let stand 3 hours. Drain; rinse and drain thoroughly., In a Dutch oven, combine sugar, water, vinegars, mustard seed, celery seed and peppercorns. Bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve sugar. Add cucumber mixture; return to a boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 4-5 minutes or until heated through., Carefully ladle hot mixture into 4 hot wide-mouth 1-pint jars, leaving 1/2-in. headspace. Add 3 garlic cloves and 1 bay leaf to each jar. Remove air bubbles and, if necessary, adjust headspace by adding hot pickling liquid. Wipe rims. Center lids on jars; screw on bands until fingertip tight. , Place jars into canner with simmering water, ensuring that they are completely covered with water. Bring to a boil; process for 10 minutes. Remove jars and cool.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 35 calories, Fat 0 fat (0 saturated fat), Cholesterol 0 cholesterol, Sodium 175mg sodium, Carbohydrate 8g carbohydrate (7g sugars, Fiber 0 fiber), Protein 0 protein.
SWEET PICKLE RECIPE
If you're looking for a way to use up your summer cucumber harvest, look no further! Ready to eat within a few hours, this sweet pickle recipe is full of briny flavor and will definitely become a staple in your refrigerator! These sweet pickles are easy to make and only require a few ingredients: thinly sliced cucumbers, sweet onions, salt, sugar, vinegar, and a few spices. Sweet pickles are the perfect snack or sandwich accompaniment and don't require canning. We promise that this sweet pickle recipe is sure to have you pickling everything!Photo credit: Lindsay Landis from Love & Olive Oil.
Provided by McCormick
Categories Condiments,
Yield 2.5
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Place cucumber slices and onions in medium glass bowl. Set aside. Mix remaining ingredients in medium saucepan. Bring to boil on medium-high heat, stirring to dissolve sugar and salt. Reduce heat to low; simmer 5 minutes.
- Pour hot liquid and spices over cucumbers and onions. Cool slightly. Cover.
- Refrigerate pickles at least 2 hours before serving. Store in tightly covered container in refrigerator up to 2 months.
QUICK PICKLED SWEET CUCUMBERS
Steps:
- Add the cucumber slices and chile slices to a medium bowl and toss to combine.
- In a medium saucepan, add the vinegar, sugar, 1/2 water and salt. Heat gently, stirring, just until the sugar and salt dissolve. Pour over the cucumbers and chiles in the bowl. Set aside to marinate at least 15 minutes before serving.
EMERIL'S HOMEMADE SWEET AND SPICY PICKLES
NOTE: When selecting cucumbers for pickling, there are a few things to remember. For crisp pickles, choose ripe, pickling cucumbers, which are shorter and chunkier than regular eating cucumbers, which tend to be longer and smoother. Ripe pickling cucumbers are darker green, firm, and not "bloated." They should have plenty of spiny bumps on the outer surface. Overripe cucumbers make mushy pickles. They tend to have yellow or white streaks or spots and their surfaces are smoother. Choose pickles that have not been coated in wax, as the pickling brine cannot penetrate through the wax. The fresher the cucumbers, the crisper the pickles will be. For best results, try picking your own cucumbers from a local farm or farmers' market.
Provided by Food Network
Categories side-dish
Time P14DT2h55m
Yield 4 pints
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Place cucumbers, onions, pickling salt, and water in a large, non-reactive bowl. Cover and allow cucumbers to soak for 2 hours. Drain the water from the onions and cucumbers through a colander and rinse well for 5 minutes. Drain well and set aside.
- Combine the vinegars, sugar, mustard seeds, turmeric, cloves, garlic, and peppers in a medium saucepan over high heat. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium and add the cucumbers and onions. Bring to a simmer and remove the saucepan from the heat.
- Fill each of the hot sterilized pint-size preserving jars with the pickle mixture, dividing them evenly, and enough of the liquid to come within 1/2-inch of the top. Add 1/2 teaspoon of Natural Pickle Crisp to each jar, if desired. With a clean damp towel, wipe the rim and fit with a hot lid. Screw on the metal ring just until the point of resistance is met. Process the jars in a hot-water bath for 15 minutes.
- Using tongs, remove the jars, place on a towel, and let cool. Test the seals by allowing the jars to stand at room temperature overnight or until the lids pop. Tighten the rings and store in a cool dry place. Let the pickles age for at least 2 weeks before using.
SUMMERTIME SWEET PICKLES
This easy recipe gives you a great way to save a bountiful crop of cukes! Your fresh cucumbers will taste great this way. This classic method is popular with all age groups.
Provided by LIZ1888
Categories Side Dish Sauces and Condiments Recipes Canning and Preserving Recipes Pickled
Time 21h40m
Yield 8
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- In a small saucepan at medium-high heat, combine cider vinegar, salt, sugar, tumeric and mustard seed. Bring to a boil and let cook for 5 more minutes.
- Meanwhile, slice cucumbers and onion. Loosely pack the vegetables in a 1-quart canning jar or other similarly sized container. Pour hot liquid over the vegetables in the container. Refrigerate for 24 hours and enjoy! Keep refrigerated.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 140.5 calories, Carbohydrate 33.5 g, Fat 0.3 g, Fiber 1.8 g, Protein 1.3 g, SaturatedFat 0.1 g, Sodium 6.1 mg, Sugar 27.5 g
SWEET CUCUMBER PICKLES
My MIL shared this recipe with me 30 years ago and taught me how to can & freeze.This recipe is a family favorite & is being passed generation to generation. Don't let the process scare you,the pickles are well worth the effort. Delicious in potato or tuna salad. Great on burgers. I make a "pickle tray" for covered dish dinners and these are the first to go and they receive many compliments. I think people like them because they are crisp.
Provided by s c319
Categories Vegetable
Time 15m
Yield 7-8 pints
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- DO NOT use aluminum pot.
- Soak sliced cucmubers in lime water (use enough water to cover cucumbers) for 24 hours.
- Drain& rinse well.
- Soak cucumbers in ice water (use enough water to cover cucumbers) for 3 hours.
- Mix vinegar, sugar, salt& spices.
- Soak cucumbers in this mixture for 24 hours Bring mixture to a boil& cook for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Put in pint jars& seal.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1084.2, Fat 0.2, SaturatedFat 0.1, Sodium 1012.7, Carbohydrate 268.9, Fiber 1, Sugar 263.4, Protein 1.3
SWEET CUCUMBERS PICKLES
Make and share this Sweet Cucumbers Pickles recipe from Food.com.
Provided by tornadoes three
Time P1DT20m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Peel cucumbers and soak for 24 hours in overnight mixture. Drain -BUT DO NOT WASH, cut cukes lengthwise.
- Boil for 10 minutes in boil mixture. Pack into bottles.
- Combine hot syrup ingredients in medium sauce pan. Bring to barely a boil while stirring constantly. Pour hot syrup over cukes and seal.
- Will keep for 3-6 months.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 359.6, Fat 0.9, SaturatedFat 0.3, Sodium 18894.7, Carbohydrate 87.1, Fiber 3.2, Sugar 75.1, Protein 3.5
SWEET CUCUMBER PICKLES
These are AMAZING! Everyone argues that it can't be cucumbers!! I've been told they belong in a pie - so sweet and in their own dark syrup. Lots of work but VERY worth the effort!
Provided by sharflan
Categories Vegetable
Time 4h30m
Yield 8-10 pints, 8-10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- * The x-large yellow cucumbers are a particular type. If they are not available to you, regular cucumbers will do but increase the number to 12.
- Pare the cucumbers and quarter, removing the seeds.
- Cut into strips and halve.
- Combine the salt and water in a large kettle, stirring to dissolve the salt.
- Add the cucumber strips and allow to sit in the brine about 12 hours.
- DRAIN WELL.
- In a kettle, combine vinegar, sugar and spices. (The spices may be tied into a cheesecloth bag or left in the pot. I leave them in the pot).
- Heat to boiling, adding enough cucumber strips to cover the bottom of the pan, cooking until just slightly transparent.
- Remove the pickles to sterilized jars and repeat til all the cucumbers have been cooked.
- Pour the hot 'syrup' into the pickle jars (to within 1/2 inch from the rim), keeping any leftover syrup.
- DO NOT SEAL THE JARS! Cover the jars and each morning for the next 3 days, drain off the 'syrup' into your kettle (with any leftover syrup, boiling for 5 minutes & pour over the pickles.
- Follow this last step each of the following 3 days. SEAL on the third day.
- Brine time (12 hrs) is not included nor are the 3 days -- .
Nutrition Facts : Calories 654.1, Fat 1.3, SaturatedFat 0.2, Sodium 7085.3, Carbohydrate 160.3, Fiber 2.2, Sugar 153.9, Protein 2.3
OLD FASHIONED SWEET CUCUMBER PICKLE
These are wonderful pickles that probably go back several generations. I love them and so does everyone I serve them to. Be warned - they take 2 weeks to complete but they only need a few minutes attention each day.
Provided by Toadflax
Categories For Large Groups
Time P14DT3h
Yield 150 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Please note that I use whatever quantities of cucumbers I have on hand, adjusting the quantity of brines and syrup to cover the cucumbers generously. You will need more brine to cover the cukes initially than you will need syrup later as there is a lot of shrinkage. Therefore I don't guarantee the above quantities will all work out exactly but each solution is easy to adjust to what you need. Start with what you think will cover the cucumbers and just make a little more if you need it.
- The use of alum is no longer recommended in home canning - I have noticed that some of the big pickle companies still use it and so do I in these pickles. It makes them crisp. I have made them without and they were not nearly as good.
- Day# 1.
- Prepare the salt/water brine by heating together until salt dissolves. It will cool sufficiently while you prepare the cucumbers.
- Wash the cucumbers in cold water. If they are less than 1 1/2" inches in diameter slice them in 3/8" - 1/2" slices. Larger ones may be halved or quartered and the seeds scooped out then cut into pickle-sized chunks.
- Put the cucumbers in a container (a large crock is preferred but hard to come by anymore - a plastic pail works fine). Do not use metal.
- Pour the salt/water brine over the cucumbers to cover. Place a plate over the cucumbers to submerge them. Put a weight on it (plastic vinegar bottle perhaps?). Cover with a cloth. Let stand 7 days.
- Day#8.
- Your pickles might not look very nice after 7 days but they are okay. Drain the brine off (dump in a clean sink), rinse the pickles and pail, put cucumbers back in and cover with plain hot water. Let stand till next day, (day# 9) drain again, and cover with alum/water solution (again heated to dissolve alum). Let stand one day.
- Day# 10.
- Drain pickles and return to pail. Prepare syrup by combining sugar and vinegar in a large (not aluminum) pot. Tie the pickling spice in a piece of cheesecloth and put in pot. Add a couple of drops of green food coloring and several of yellow. Bring to boil, simmer 10 minutes. Pour over cucumbers, submerge the spice bag in the pail.
- Every day, for 3 days, (days 11-12-13) drain the syrup into a pot, reheat and pour back over the pickles. Each day check the color, correcting it with yellow food coloring - it rarely needs anymore green.
- On day #14 put the pickles in sterilized jars, adding a piece of cinnamon stick and a few whole cloves to each jar. Heat brine, (discard spice bag)and pour in jars to cover pickles, leaving a little head space. Seal with 2 piece lids.
- Modern canning instructions would now call for these to be processed in a water bath for 10 minutes. I do not. If the odd jar doesn't seal I refrigerate it and use it first. In a cool dark place these pickles will keep a long time (I usually make a 2 year supply) Time and servings guestimated.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 67.5, Sodium 1512.1, Carbohydrate 16.9, Fiber 0.1, Sugar 16.4, Protein 0.2
SENFGURKEN - RIPE CUCUMBER PICKLES
Have any of those hidden cucumbers revealed themselves now that the garden is nearly done? Cooking time approximate. From the Pennsylvania Dutch chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947. While this recipe is written in an old-fashioned way, it is perfectly safe if processed using modern methods. If you are unfamiliar with these techniques, please go to http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/how/can_home.html for the current information.
Provided by Molly53
Categories Low Protein
Time 12h15m
Yield 3 quarts
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Wash cucumbers; peel, cut in halves lengthwise and scoop out seeds.
- Let stand overnight in a brine made of the salt and water.
- Drain very well and cut into pieces.
- Tie spices into a cheesecloth bag.
- Bring sugar, vinegar and spice bag to a boil; add cucumbers and boil until cukes begin to look transparent but are still crisp.
- Fill sterilized jars and seal.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1827.7, Fat 3.9, SaturatedFat 0.6, Sodium 18905.4, Carbohydrate 447.7, Fiber 7.9, Sugar 420.4, Protein 9.8
Tips:
- Choose firm, ripe cucumbers for the best results.
- Use a sharp knife to slice the cucumbers evenly.
- If you don't have pickling salt, you can use regular salt, but be sure to reduce the amount by half.
- Bring the vinegar mixture to a boil before pouring it over the cucumbers.
- Allow the pickles to cool completely before storing them in the refrigerator.
Conclusion:
Sweet pickles made from ripe cucumbers are a delicious and versatile condiment that can be enjoyed in many different ways. They are perfect for adding a sweet and tangy flavor to sandwiches, salads, and burgers. They can also be used as a topping for ice cream or yogurt. With a little planning and effort, you can easily make your own sweet pickles at home. So next time you have a surplus of ripe cucumbers, give this recipe a try!
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