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August 3, 2012

Spicy ginger dill refrigerator pickles

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Spicy ginger refrigerator pickles

Summer’s amazing cornucopia of produce sometimes brings on a happy panic. There’s much to be done in the garden, favorite dishes to prepare as each new fruit or vegetable comes into season. Preserving, preserving, and more preserving, especially when one crop’s harvest arrives faster than you eat them up.

My tomatoes are coming along splendidly (plenty of fresh to pick every day), but right now, cucumbers are vying for attention.

Lots of cucumbers mean pickles. And not just any pickles, but zesty, gingery, dill pickles. Mouth-puckering with a zing of heat.

Spicy ginger refrigerator pickles

I love that so many of the ingredients in this recipe can come from the garden — the cukes, garlic, peppers, mustard seeds, coriander seeds, dill seeds.

And ginger. I didn’t grow ginger this year — I backed out at the last minute — but I plan to next year. There’s a farm in this area growing ginger from Hawaii, and I’m keeping an eye on their harvest to see how it fares in this climate (growing zone 6).

Karen xo

Spicy ginger refrigerator pickles

Equipment: 1 one-pint jar (I used a 500ml Weck jar, which is a bit more than a pint)

Ingredients:
Vinegar mix: 2 parts rice wine vinegar, 1 part apple cider vinegar, 1/2 part water – enough to fill the jar you’ve chosen (for example, I used: 1 cup rice wine vinegar, 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar, 1/4 cup water)
1 clove of garlic, minced
1 small red or green jalapeño pepper, seeds removed, sliced into rings
1 tablespoon pickling spices (or 1/2 teaspoon each mustard seeds, peppercorns, coriander seeds, dill seeds)
2 teaspoons fresh ginger, peeled and minced
2 teaspoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon soy or shoyu sauce
1 pound pickling cucumbers (3-4 cukes), sliced into 1/8″ thick slices

Instructions:
Pour about 1/4 cup of the vinegar mix into the jar. Add the garlic, peppers, spices, ginger, sugar, salt and soy sauce. Use a long spoon to give the ingredients a good stir, allowing the salt and sugar to dissolve.

Place the cucumber slices in the jar, stacking them loosely and leaving plenty of room for the liquid to flow around them.

Pour in the remaining vinegar mix, leaving 1″ headroom. (You might not use all of the mix, or you might need to add a bit more rice wine vinegar.) Make sure all of the slices are submerged in the liquid.

Seal the jar and place in the refrigerator. Let the pickles marinate for one week. The first day, they’ll taste completely unremarkable. By the third day, they’ll become quite flavorful, and at one week … ooo la la.

Prep Time:15 minutes       Marinating time:1 week       Yield: About one pint of pickles
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Filed Under: Appetizers + Snacks, Pescatarian, Summer, Vegetables, Vegetarian Tagged With: cucumbers, ginger

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  1. Cher says

    August 3, 2012 at 12:48 pm

    Oh, I like 🙂

    I have a couple quart jars of 3-week pickles in the fridge now, but I am totally into instant gratification – 3 days seems pretty instant in this case.

    P.S. Would totally love to hear about ginger growing adventures…

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