Homemade Refrigerator Pickles Recipe

Homemade Refrigerator Pickles Recipe is made with white vinegar, sugar, salt, white onion, celery seeds, and sliced cucumbers.  For the best flavor, marinate for at least 2 days in your refrigerator. These pickles will keep freshly refrigerated for at least 30 days.  Great to serve with sandwiches, hamburgers, and hot dogs.

How to Make Homemade Pickles!

This recipe for homemade pickles was inspired and adapted by our good friend Susan from Savoring Time in the Kitchen.  She has delicious recipes and we have been friends for years.  This happens to be her mother’s recipe and it’s an easy one too. 

Best part? 

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

Besides their delicious flavor, these pickles are sweet-tangy-crispy, and refreshing!  So simple and practically effortless to make, why bother buying the jar? 

For this recipe:

You can use English cucumbers, or your own 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 for Homemade Refrigerator Pickles Recipe:

• 6 cups of cucumbers – sliced about 1/4 -inch thick 
• 1 medium-size white onion – sliced
• 1 + 1/4 cups water
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 + 1/4 cups white vinegar
• 2 tsp. celery seeds
• 1 tsp. salt
• optional: 1 tsp. dill weed

How to Make Homemade Refrigerator Pickles:

1.  In a medium-size 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, fill to the top.  Seal and refrigerate. 

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 equals 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.

ENJOY them any time!!

More Recipes for Cucumbers…

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

Yield: 8 to 10 servings

Homemade Refrigerator Pickles Recipe

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Homemade Refrigerator Pickles Recipe is made with 6 ingredients. The best flavor to these pickles is after 2 days when they have marinated, and they keep fresh for up to 30 days refrigerated.  Great to serve with sandwiches, hamburgers, and hotdogs.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Total Time 10 minutes

Ingredients

• 6 cups of cucumbers - sliced about 1/4 -inch thick
• 1 medium-size white onion - sliced
• 1 + 1/4 cups white vinegar
• 3/4 cup of granulated sugar
• 1 + 1/4 cups water
• 2 tsp. celery seeds
• 1 tsp. salt
• optional: 1 tsp. dill weed

Instructions

1. In a medium-size 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. 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, and fill to the top. Seal each jar or container and refrigerate.
5. They keep fresh for up to 2 to 3 months refrigerated.
6. Serves 8 to 10 servings

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

8 to 10 servings

Serving Size:

1 serving
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 73Total Fat: .2gCarbohydrates: 17.7gFiber: .4gSugar: 16.2gProtein: .5g

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