Homemade Dill Pickles with Jalapenos
 
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These dill pickles have the perfect amount of crunch! Try them with jalapenos for an extra kick!
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Recipe type: Appetizer
Serves: 3 quarts
Ingredients
  • 10-12 medium pickling cucumbers (~4-6 inches each)
  • 3 quart jars with lids and rings
Seasonings
  • 9 cloves garlic, whole, sliced, or minced depending on your preference
  • ¼ medium white onion, cut into petals
  • 6 jalapenos, sliced and seeded
  • 9 medium dill seed heads
Brine
  • 1½ cups white vinegar
  • 4½ cups water
  • 4-8 TBS pickling salt
Instructions
  1. Sterilize 3 quart jars buy filling them with water and place in a water canner. Fill the canner with water so that jars are covered. Bring to a boil and simmer 10 minutes. Carefully remove jars and reserve water for the water bath process. *You can skip this process if you are not planning on long term storage and simply want to make refrigerator pickles.*
  2. Wash cucumbers and rub the spines off with your hands. Cut cucumbers into half inch spears (6-8 spears per cucumber).
  3. Evenly distribute seasonings among jars. Pack jars with cucumber spears as full as possible (if not full you will run out of brine liquid). If spears are shorter than the jars (mine were), cut some spears to lay flat in the top of the jar so that the jar is full to the top.
  4. Combine all ingredients for the brine in a medium pan and bring to a boil.
  5. Poor brine over cucumber spears in the jars. All jars should be full of liquid. If you don't have enough liquid, make enough more to completely cover all the cucumbers.
  6. Bring the canner full of water back to boil.
  7. Meanwhile, sterilize lids by placing in a pan of water and bring it to a boil. Remove from heat.
  8. Place lids on jars and tighten them using a ring. Place jars into the boiling water and turn off the heat. Let jars sit in the hot water until it cools, 6-8 hours. Dry the rings so they do not become rusty.
  9. If any jars did not seal, refrigerate those and eat them first.
Recipe by Alison's Allspice at https://www.alisonsallspice.com/homemade-dill-pickles-with-jalapenos/