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    Homemade Pickling Spice

    Published: Feb 7, 2025 by Fox Valley Foodie · This post may contain affiliate links

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    Homemade pickling spice recipe #spices #seasoning #pickling

    This homemade pickling spice recipe is a flavorful all-purpose blend of spices perfect for pickling and brining your favorite foods. Craft the recipe as written, or customize it to feature your favorite seasonings.

    Pickling spice is a flavorful blend of many spices used for flavoring a brine when pickling. The complex flavor of the spice blend is slowly infused into the food soaking in the brine, often over a period of days or weeks.

    Homemade pickling spice.

    If you do any pickling, canning, or brining I firmly believe you should craft your own homemade pickling spice recipe, or use my simple recipe for starters. Pickling spice blends can easily be customized to feature more of the spices you love and less of those you don't.

    What is Pickling Spice.

    Ingredients Needed

    • Coriander seeds
    • Black peppercorns
    • Mustard seeds
    • Whole Allspice berries
    • Bay leaves 
    • Cinnamon sticks
    • Cloves
    • Crushed red pepper flakes
    • Ground ginger

    Use the quantities in the recipe card below, or add more or less of your favorite seasonings to customize the flavor of your own blend.

    Mix the spice blend together in a bowl then store in a dark place using airtight spice jars to maintain the freshest flavor. Or you can use the mixture immediately when you run out of store-bought pickling spices.

    Pickling Spice Recipe.

    How to use it

    You can use your homemade pickling spice to pickle any of your favorite vegetables. To do so, simply combine an equal parts mixture of water and vinegar (white vinegar or apple cider vinegar) in a saucepan, using approximately 2 tablespoons of kosher salt per cup of liquid. Bring the mixture to a boil until the salt dissolves.

    Add 1-3 tablespoons of pickling spice to a quart jar, then add your vegetables for pickling and pour in the hot brine. Seal the lids and place jars in the refrigerator. Expect the pickling process to take one week for best flavor, then enjoy.

    Homemade pickling spice

    Homemade Pickling Spice

    This homemade pickling spice recipe is a flavorful all-purpose spice blend perfect for pickling and brining your favorite foods.
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    Course: Seasoning
    Cuisine: American
    Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 5 minutes minutes
    Servings: 4
    Calories: 1kcal
    Author: Fox Valley Foodie

    Ingredients

    • 2 tablespoons coriander seeds
    • 1 ½ tablespoon black peppercorns
    • 1 tablespoon mustard seeds
    • 1 tablespoon allspice berries
    • 6 bay leaves (crumbled)
    • 3 inches cinnamon sticks (crushed or broken into pieces)
    • 1 teaspoon cloves
    • 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
    • 1 teaspoon ground ginger

    Instructions

    • Mix all seasonings together and store in an airtight container.

    Nutritional Information

    Calories: 1kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 4mg | Potassium: 88mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 14IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 56mg | Iron: 1mg
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    This recipe was originally published on January 10, 2020.

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    1. Cheryl

      July 29, 2023 at 12:43 pm

      1 teaspoon of ground cloves or whole? Thank you

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      • Fox Valley Foodie

        July 31, 2023 at 2:43 pm

        Whole cloves.

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    2. Jimmy Kersh

      July 16, 2021 at 11:29 pm

      I can save money making my own

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