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Quick Pickled Garden Vegetables
Created by Chef Ally
Crisp vegetables from the morning market, submerged in a gentle brine with dill and garlic, ready to brighten sandwiches, cheese boards, and simple suppers all week long.
Start with what is ready. The cucumbers that doubled in size overnight. Radishes pulled this morning, still cool from the soil. Carrots with their tops still attached. Quick pickling is not about following a rigid recipe. It is about responding to what the garden or market offers today.
The technique could not be simpler. You warm vinegar with salt and a little sugar until dissolved, pour it over your vegetables, and wait. An hour gives you something bright and fresh. A day gives you something more deeply flavored. The vegetables keep their snap because you are not processing them in a canner. You are just preserving a moment of the season in your refrigerator.
Every meal is a meaningful choice. When you pickle the beans from your neighbor's garden or the peppers from the Saturday market, you are extending a relationship as much as a harvest. The jar in your refrigerator becomes a small archive of summer, ready to brighten a winter sandwich or a Tuesday cheese plate.
Do almost nothing. Good vinegar. Fresh aromatics. Vegetables at their peak. Let things taste of what they are.
Ingredients
mixed garden vegetables
Quantity
1 1/2 pounds
cucumbers, carrots, radishes, green beans, cauliflower, or summer squash
red onion
Quantity
1 small
thinly sliced
white wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
Quantity
1 1/2 cups
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| mixed garden vegetablescucumbers, carrots, radishes, green beans, cauliflower, or summer squash | 1 1/2 pounds |
| red onionthinly sliced | 1 small |
| white wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar | 1 1/2 cups |
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