Pickles

Making homemade pickles is easy, takes a few minutes and the results are awesome. And pickled gherkins and red onions are great additions to many meals.

Homemade pickles in a glass jar with vegetables and aromatics

Ingredients

  • 60% regular vinegar
  • 40% water
  • 5.5g salt for each 100ml of the vinegar/water mixture
  • Vegetable of choice (gherkin or red onions recommended)
  • Spices and aromatics (peppercorns recommended)

Instructions

  1. Choose a vegetable to pickle. I usually pickle gherkin or red onions.
  2. Cut the vegetable in chunks, for the onions in strings.
  3. Fill a jar with the vegetable.
  4. Put the filled jar on a scale and fill the jar with water. This tells you how much of the water and vinegar mixture to you need to prepare.
  5. Lets say we measured we need 360g of the mixture. We might loose a bit due to boiling and spilling, so to make sure, make a bit larger mixture. For this case lets say 400g.
  6. Mix 240g of vinegar and 160g of water in a pot. Add 22g of salt and turn the heat up.
  7. Add any aromatics of your choices. I usually just go for few peppercorns.
  8. Once boiling, set aside for a moment.
  9. Pour the mixture inside of the jar with your vegetable.
  10. Let cool down, close, and place in your fridge.
  11. Let rest for at least a week and finish consume it within a month.