Description
Crisp cucumber slices get a flavor explosion with spicy sweet dill delights, blending tangy herbs and zesty heat. Cool summer refreshment meets bold culinary creativity, ensuring quick preparation and maximum satisfaction for curious palates.
Ingredients
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Spicy Sweet Dill Delights
Main Ingredients:
- 80 ounces (2.27 kilograms) whole dill pickles (non-kosher)
- 3 cups (600 grams) white sugar
Liquid Ingredient:
- 1 cup (240 milliliters) reserved pickle juice
Spice and Seasoning:
- 1 tablespoon (15 milliliters) crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 teaspoon (5 milliliters) yellow mustard seeds
Instructions
- Drain pickles into a colander, carefully reserving one cup of original pickle juice.
- Slice the drained pickles into uniform quarter-inch thick rounds, ensuring consistent texture.
- Strategically layer sliced pickles back into original jar, alternating with sugar, red pepper flakes, and mustard seeds.
- Pour reserved pickle juice over layered ingredients, creating a balanced and flavorful mixture.
- Seal jar tightly and gently rotate to initiate sugar dissolution, creating an even distribution of sweet and spicy elements.
- Allow jar to rest at ambient temperature for two hours, intermittently shaking every half-hour to prevent sugar accumulation at bottom.
- After resting period, thoroughly mix ingredients to ensure complete sugar integration and flavor infusion.
- Securely close lid and transfer jar to refrigerator for overnight marination, allowing ingredients to harmonize and develop complex taste profile.
- Following overnight chilling, perform final gentle stirring to redistribute spices and ensure consistent flavor throughout pickle mixture.
- For gifting presentation, transfer pickles into smaller mason jars, maintaining juice coverage and optionally embellishing with decorative twine or ribbons.
Notes
- These spicy sweet dill pickles transform ordinary pickles into a gourmet, tangy treat with just a few simple ingredients.
- Stirring every 30 minutes during the 2-hour room temperature resting period helps sugar dissolve completely and distribute flavors evenly.
- Overnight refrigeration allows the pickles to absorb the sweet and spicy seasonings, creating a complex and addictive flavor profile.
- The recipe works best with classic dill pickle spears or chips, ensuring maximum flavor absorption and crunch.
- Mason jars make perfect storage and gifting containers, adding a homemade, rustic charm to this delightful pickle recipe.
- Red pepper flakes and mustard seeds provide a subtle heat and textural complexity that elevates these pickles from ordinary to extraordinary.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Snacks, Appetizer
- Method: Mixing
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 40
- Calories: 175
- Sugar: 6 g
- Sodium: 340 mg
- Fat: 0 g
- Saturated Fat: 0 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 0 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 44 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg