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Feb
Combine the cucumbers onions and garlic and tightly pack into a quart sized glass jar with a lid or a tupperware container with a lid. Place sliced cucumber and onion in a very large clean lidded jar and set aside.
Pour the hot liquid over the cucumbers and onions and ensure all vegetables are completely submerged.
Low sodium pickle recipe. Cut pickles into spears or slices. To mason jars add 2 3 sprigs of fresh dill 1 2 whole garlic cloves and a few slices of sweet onion. Add in the cucumber spears or sliced cucumber and pack tightly.
In a medium saucepan combine 3 cups white vinegar 1 tbsp sugar 1 tbsp mixed pickling spice and a few sprigs of fresh dill. Combine the cucumbers onions and garlic and tightly pack into a quart sized glass jar with a lid or a tupperware container with a lid. Pour the hot liquid over the cucumbers and onions and ensure all vegetables are completely submerged.
Close the lid tightly and refrigerate for at least 1 day before serving. Even the round chip pickles are 260mg of sodium for just 5 pieces. And the low sodium pickle spears are 150mg again for 2 3 of a spear.
There may be no or very low sodium branded pickles out there but they are not in my store and i hate ordering what should be basic food stuff online. When adjusting to a low sodium diet there were many frustrations when it came to seemingly basic foods being off limits because of massive amounts of sodium. Commercial brand dill pickles were one of the worst offenders of this.
A regular spear of my favorite brand dill pickle is almost 300mg in sodium. There has to be a better way. Place sliced cucumber and onion in a very large clean lidded jar and set aside.
In a saucepan combine the remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil over medium high heat and stir just until sugar is dissolved. One a plate slice all the cucumbers into thin pickle like chips.
2 once completed you will prepare the brine. Pour the 6 8 cups of white vinegar into the 64oz tubberware. Afterwards pour in all.