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Spring Onion Quick Pickle.

3/30/2016

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​I like quick pickles. I don't have a ton of time to make dozens of jars of the same thing endlessly, and quite honestly I get bored with flavors and really like mixing it up, using what is fresh on hand, and having small batches of a variety of quick pickles to liven up meals, crudités, salads, and of course for snacks. At any given moment year-round I have a few jars of something in my fridge. Right now I have pickled cucumbers and garlic in a slightly sweet brine, and pickled daikon which are amazingly peppery and crunchy. Spring onions are one of the first things in spring that we can find here in Wisconsin, and I like pickling them so that I can spread them out throughout the summer. I like the small green brilliance of their flavor in a pickle and they work on salads, burgers, or with a plate of hummus and tomatoes. 

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Spring Onion Quick Pickle

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Quick pickles are a delicious way to use the bounty of the season to create a variety of flavours and textures. This recipe uses one of the gardens earliest arrivals – spring onions, or scallions.

{ingredients}

  • 1.5 cup mild pickling vinegar of choice (white, rice, or champagne vinegar all are fine)

  • 2.5 cups water

  • 1/3 cup cane or turbinado sugar

  • 1.5 Tbsp sea salt

  • 20-30 green spring onions, trimmed

  • 1/2 tsp peppercorn

  • 1/2 tsp mustard seeds

  • 1 tsp dill seeds

  • 1/2 tsp coriander

  • 1 clove of garlic, chopped

Heat water/vinegar/sugar/salt/garlic in a pot until dissolved. Let cool to room temp.

Be sure to peel any wilted outer bits off of your onions. You want nice firm, crunchy pieces.

Trim some of the green off of your spring onions to fit vertically into a 1 quart canning jar.

Using a clean/sterile quart jar;

-Add dry spices to the jar

-Add the trimmed onions vertically to the jar until packed tightly

-Pour cooled liquid over the top to cover

-Screw on vinegar safe lid (no metal!)

Let sit in fridge for 2-3 days before eating!

These onions become crisp and crunchy with a twangy pickle flavor. They are delicious in any slaw or salad, atop a burger, or just as a crisp snack.

Published March 29, 2016
Or try this: Add some additional zesty flavor by reducing the white vinegar in the recipe above to 1 cup and add 1/2 cup umeboshi plum vinegar. 

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Another bonus of having a fresh pickling brine is when all of your salad greens start coming in full blast you not only have some pickled scallions to put on your salad, but you have a tasty brine to use for salad dressings. Simply mix a little pickle brine with extra virgin olive oil, s&p, and a tiny bit of grainy mustard. Stir and boom. Delicious dressing. 

I know most of us have the image of a farm woman in her hot kitchen with 422 pounds of one kind of cucumber frantically pickling and canning until 3AM. But these days we can get such a wide variety of seeds and can easily grow such a diversity of herbs, fruit, and vegetables, that we don't need to mono-pickle. Small batch pickling is a quick, easy, and delicious way to preserve the extras, the favorites, and the flavors of the season!

Spring comes so slowly after a long winter, but jumping back into the garden and kitchen to start preserving again feels good. After a long winter it feels pretty much like a big TA-DAAAAA! 

2 Comments
Jodi Mayer
4/8/2021 08:32:17 pm

Great idea and sounds delicious. Will be trying this possibly this weekend!

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Kathy Lacy
9/9/2022 01:23:24 pm

Can't wait to make several jars of these. Yummy

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