Canned dill pickle asparagus. Browse & Discover Thousands of Cooking Food & Wine Book Titles, for Less. Asparagus might be my favorite pickling vegetable… except for the beans that get turned into dilly beans and the beets for pickled beets, oh, and the cucumbers for fermented garlic dill pickles. Okay, I can't pick a favorite, because really, they should all have their place inside a Mason jar and lining my cupboard shelves.
Pickling salt, to help preserve the asparagus in the jar. Pickled asparagus is delicious, and this recipe was given to me by my best friend, Carole. We get our asparagus in the spring from the Yakima Valley in central WA. You can have Canned dill pickle asparagus using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Canned dill pickle asparagus
- You need 5 lb of Asparagus.
- You need 3 tbsp of Pickling Spice.
- It's 4 tsp of Red Pepper.
- You need 14 tbsp of Salt.
- Prepare 4 each of Garlic Clove.
- Prepare 4 each of Empty Quart Canning Jars.
- Prepare 7 tbsp of Dill Weed.
- You need 2 quart of White Vinegar.
- You need 2 quart of Water.
Use the freshest dill you can find and pack the spears in quart jars making sure all spears are covered with pickling juice. These are great with salads, in cocktails, or served as a snack. Discard ends or save for another use. Place asparagus in a large container; cover with ice water.
Canned dill pickle asparagus instructions
- Combine the water and vinegar and start to boil with 10 tablespoons of salt..
- Remove the cloves from the pickling spice. Add the pickling spice to water and vinegar. Also add 3 teaspoons dill weed. Add 1ea tsp dill to each jar..
- Add 1 teaspoon of red pepper to water and vinegar if you want pepper. Also 1 teaspoon of pepper to each jar of you want..
- Put Asparagus into jars head down. Add 1 clove of garlic each..
- Add 1 tablespoon of salt to each jar..
- Once brine has been at a rolling boil for at least 10 minutes, strain spice out. Add to asparagus jars, seal hand tight and sit for 3 weeks. G2g.
In a Dutch oven, bring the water, vinegar, sugar and salt to a boil. Pickled asparagus is an excellent way to preserve this spring time food. This pickled asparagus recipe is extremely easy to make. The steps for canning pickled asparagus allow this items to become shelf-stable in only minutes. Asparagus is something I look forward to every year.