Quick Pickles Recipe (2024)

Leave out the sugar, add sour cream and you have my Hungarian grandmother's cucumber salad.

Let me share with you a Nordic variation on this that my paternal Grandma made: Slice 3 cukes and one sweet white onion as thin as you can; peel cukes if desired. Take about a 1/4 cup of white vinegar and a tablespoon or so of sugar--NO salt and NO water; only a few drops of water if needed to loosen up the sugar. Pour and mix over veggies, let sit overnight. Stir well before serving. This is an oft-requested recipe when I go to summer potlucks, BBQs, etc and it couldn't be easier.

Add a few pinches of toasted and ground cumin, and a dash of black or rec (or both) pepper of your choice, and you have an Indian version of it.

Don't complain about the sugar! It and salt are what help remove excess liquid from cucumbers and is not consumed. As written, this is a quick, tasty side dish.

In the Asian areas of Queens, NY, they have 4 dishes plus rice for $4 counters. This is always one of the choices, with a few drops of toasted sesame oil added. Nice lady in Elmhurst gave me her recipe.

Add spicy green peppers (or jalapeno's) to make Indonesian cucumber salad.

I add a hit of chili sesame oil, a hit of toasted sesame oil, some toasted black and white sesame seeds, Japanese red pickled ginger and ships leaves. Sometimes I add all these things sometimes just a few.

Add chopped chives along with your sour cream and you have my Austrian great-grandmother's cucumber salad!

Add one more step halfway between slicing, soaking and serving and the receipt will be similar to my Slovak Grandmother Vavra's Cold Cucumber Salad: Pick up thin cucumber and onion slices in your two hands, squeeze as hard as you can and replace in liquid to soak another half hour or so under a heavy plate.

NYT Reader: Let me share with you a Nordic variation on this that my paternal Grandma made: Slice 3 cukes and one sweet white onion as thin as you can; peel cukes if desired. Take about a 1/4 cup of white vinegar and a tablespoon or so of sugar--NO salt and NO water; only a few drops of water if needed to loosen up the sugar. Pour and mix over veggies, let sit overnight. Stir well before serving. This is an oft-requested recipe when I go to summer potlucks, BBQs, etc

leave out the sugar, add sour cream and fresh dill and you have my moms delicious cucumber salad.

Great accompaniment to a spicy stir fry! A keeper!

Good with just a couple shakes of dry dill weed too.

I use Kirby’s sliced a bit thicker. Add some dill. As one who has, in the past, made a big production out of making pickles, this is a game changer. So easy, so good.

Very bland. Missing just about everything

A friend gifted me a cucumber and this is what I did with it. The only thing I would do differently is make the slices slightly thicker.

1 Tbl of vinegar for all those cukes seemed like too little. It was. I sliced 3 & 1/2 small cukes, & followed the recipe but when it came time to add the vinegar, it wasn’t enough to moisten, much less “pickle” them. Am I missing something?

To peel or not to peel the cucumbers? The recipe says to peel but the photo shows unpeeled cucumbers.

My mother used to do this, but slightly differently: after slicing the cukes into a bowl put sugar, salt, and vinegar; then put a plate atop the mixture and weight it to press down on the slices. All ready in 30 min.

Adding to my copy Let me share with you a Nordic variation on this that my paternal Grandma made: Slice 3 cukes and one sweet white onion as thin as you can; peel cukes if desired. Take about a 1/4 cup of white vinegar and a tablespoon or so of sugar--NO salt and NO water; only a few drops of water if needed to loosen up the sugar. Pour and mix over veggies, let sit overnight. Stir well before serving. This is an oft-requested recipe when I go to summer potlucks, BBQs, etc and it couldn't be eas

Works great with just vinegar if you're looking to cut down on salt, sugar, or both.

Followed the recipe & then added a T of Harissa. Soooo goood & nicely spicy.

Would this recipe, by any chance, work with zucchini?

Possible to use sugar substitutes?

I made as is using Persian cukes. These worked out perfect for use with the Korean Grilled Beef Lettuce Wraps. Will definitely play around with this recipe again. Thank you!

I use lime juice but this is the recipe I use for quick pickles for the last 15 years or so. The sugar is negligible but necessary. Yes, sometimes I add dill or pour the liquid over avocado but mostly I love it for its delicious simplicity.

If you have fresh dill from the garden, use it! Simply lovely. Persian/English cucumbers are the best. Need to find a way to can or preserve.

A great quick addition to any meal