Garlic Dill Pickles with Hungarian Peppers
If you like spicy, adding Hungarian peppers to these garlic dill pickles will do the trick! Making dill pickles from scratch is very easy and beats out store bought any day. If you have an excess of cucumbers in your garden right now, try out this recipe and let me know what you think!
My grandparents have so many cucumbers right now. I tried to grow some pickling cucumbers but I did not water them as much as they need so they do not look very healthy. I still wanted to make some garlic dill pickles so I used one from my grandparents’ garden. The dill came from their garden and the garlic came from mine. I also added a Hungarian pepper I bought at the local orchard, Strites’. The Hungarian peppers were advertised as mildly spicy, but after chopping one and scratching my nose, I think they are a lot spicier than advertised. I hope the pickles do not turn out to be too spicy. I will update this post in two weeks when the pickles are ready to be eaten.
Update: They were spicy!
This recipe is fairly easy. I adapted my recipe from Refrigerator Garlic Dill Pickles. I only could find one 20 ounce glass jar, so feel free to double or triple this recipe if needed.
Garlic Dill Pickles with Hungarian Peppers
Ingredients
- 2 cups water
- ¼ cup white vinegar
- 1/8 cup pickling salt I used sea salt
- 1 large cucumber about 1 pound
- 1 Hungarian pepper
- 2 heads of dill
- 4 cloves garlic peeled
- ¼ tsp red pepper flakes
Instructions
- Bring the water, vinegar, and salt to a boil so that the salt dissolves.
- Slice the cucumber and pepper.
- In the bottom of the jar, place one head of dill and two cloves of garlic. Layer the cucumbers and peppers until the jar is almost full. Place the other head of dill and remaining garlic on top. Add the red pepper flakes.
- Fill the jar with the vinegar salt water mixture until everything is completely covered. Place the lid on tightly.
- Let the jar sit on the counter for 2-3 days and then refrigerate at least two weeks before opening.