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Alton Brown Pickling Recipe || A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
If you like pickles, you should taste the Alton Brown pickling recipe at least once. You’ll love its spicy, tangy, savory, and sweet taste.
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Course:
Side Dish
Cuisine:
American
Prep Time:
20
minutes
minutes
Cooling Time:
9
days
days
Total Time:
9
days
days
20
minutes
minutes
Servings:
10
People
Calories:
50
kcal
Ingredients
3
Pounds
Cucumber
5 ½
Ounce
Pickling Salt
1
Tsp
Dill Seed
2
Cloves
Garlic
1
Tsp
Red Pepper Flakes
1
Tsp
Black Peppercorn
Instructions
Pour 5 ½ ounces of salt and 1 gallon of filtered water into a container.
Add the dill seed, fresh fronds, garlic, red pepper flakes, and black peppercorns.
Lay the cucumbers on the jar’s side and arrange them vertically around.
Now, take the gallon of water you make with salt initially. And pour the water into the jar of cucumber.
This time, pour the leftover water into a zip bag. Put the full of brine zip-locked bag on top of the jar you filled with salt water in step-4.
Keep the crock for fermentation for the right 3 days in the temperature of your spare room is 70°.
Scum the crock every day or at least each couple of days.
Put the jar of pickles in the refrigerator for 3 days. You need not put the zip bag on top anymore.
Your Pickles recipe is done.
Transfer the pickles to a fresh jar and refrigerate for three more days before serving.
Now it’s ready to serve.
Tips
Adding garlic will surely give a strong flavor.
You can add hot sauce to get a spicy taste.
To make the pickles storable for a long time, add vinegar.
Allspice, cloves, and cinnamon are the flavor-influencing spices for the pickle recipe.
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Alton Brown Pickling Recipe || A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
Amount per Serving
Calories
50
% Daily Value*
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.