Homemade Refrigerator Pickles Recipe

How to make pickles? Homemade Refrigerator Pickles Recipe is made with 6 ingredients! NO preservatives, no additives, and only healthy ingredients for the BEST-tasting pickles ever!  Great to serve with sandwiches, hamburgers, and hot dogs. 

 

Homemade Pickles Recipe

These homemade pickles are made with 6 all-natural ingredients! Besides their delicious flavor, these pickles are sweet-tangy-crispy and refreshing! So simple and practically effortless to make, why bother buying the jar? 

This recipe for homemade pickles is adapted by our good friend Susan from Savoring Time in the Kitchen.  She has delicious recipes and we have been friends for years. 

Best part? 

No cooking and no baking involved when making homemade pickles …  only slicing is required. 😉

How to Make Homemade Pickles?

For this recipe, you can use English cucumbers, or your garden cucumbers, even the small ones will work too!  Plus, one onion is required. 

This easy recipe only requires a few staple ingredients to make homemade pickles. 

Ingredients Needed: (*full recipe card below!)

• CUCUMBERS: you will need about 6 cups of cucumbers, sliced about 1/4 inch thick. 
• ONION: the onion provides a sweet flavor to the cucumbers while marinating.
• WATER: some water is needed to create enough balance in the marinade.
• SUGAR: you will need a little sugar for the marinade, about 3/4 cup granulated sugar.
• VINEGAR: choose a white vinegar for these homemade pickles, giving them enough tang in every bite.
• CELERY SEEDS: choose dried celery seeds for this recipe.
• SALT: you will need some salt to balance the sugar in the marinade.
• DILL WEED: iit’s optional, but if you have it, toss some into the mixture, about 1 tsp. dill weed.

Easy-to-Follow Directions to Make Homemade Refrigerator Pickles:

1.  In a medium-sized mixing bowl, toss the sliced cucumbers and onion.  Set aside.

2.  In a small container,  add the vinegar, water, sugar, salt, celery seeds, and dill weed (I added some dill weed last, into each jar).  Stir for about 2 minutes, until the sugar completely dissolves. 

3.  Fill two or three mason jars (or containers) with sliced cucumbers and onions.  Shake the jar a little to fit as much as you can into the jar. 

4.  Then pour the vinegar mixture over the cucumber and onions, filled to the top.  Seal and refrigerate. 

QUICK NOTE: For the best flavor, marinate them for at least 2 days in your refrigerator. These pickles will stay fresh if refrigerated, and for at least 30 days. 

Tips and Notes for these pickles…

• If you have any leftover sliced cucumbers, just reserve them to toss into a salad for dinner or lunch. 
• Keep in mind, if you need extra liquid to fill the jars,  always mix equal parts of water and white vinegar.  Then add in a pinch of salt and sugar.  It should be fine.
• Serve these pickles as a condiment with your BBQ, hamburgers, and hot dogs.  
• Toss a few of these pickles into your salad.
• Add them to your sandwiches.  …yum!
• Enjoy them as a snack when hunger strikes.  They’re low in calories.

 

More Recipes for Cucumbers…

• Cucumbers and Vidalia Onion Salad
• Cucumber and Quinoa Salad
• Chickpea Salad with Cucumbers and Peppers

Your comments help us! If you try the homemade refrigerator pickles recipe, let us know and leave a comment.  We’d love to hear from you!

 Happy and Healthy Eating!  :

xo Anna and Liz