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30 Jul 2019
Cooking, Gardening, Gratitude

Fried Pickle Kits: The Perfect Gift

This time of year we’re all looking to pawn off cucumbers, amirite?! And all good gardeners have a refrigerator pickle recipe out of sheer necessity, but you can only eat and gift so many pickles before people start avoiding eye-contact.

Well my friends, I had a genius idea come to me (if I say so myself), to help me manage a bumper crop of cucumbers. Gifting fried pickle kits! Cute little jars of the ingredients you need to make fried pickles, so you can hawk your goods under the guise of a cute little “I love you” or “thank you” gift. You’re welcome!

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Here’s all you need to make Fried Pickle Gifts happen:

  1. A pickle recipe. Mine is HERE.
  2. Cute little jars. Here.
  3. Fry batter dry ingredients, assembled into your cute little jar
  4. A recipe for fried pickles written out (see my recipe below)
  5. Twine. Here.

 

My fried pickle recipe*:

Dipping sauce:

1/4 cup mayonnaise

2 teaspoons ketchup

2 teaspoons cajun seasoning

Fried pickles:

Vegetable oil for frying

1/4 cup all purpose flour

1 teaspoon cajun seasoning

1/4 teaspoon Italian seasoning

Small pinch of cayenne pepper

Salt

1 cup sliced fridge pickles

 

INSTRUCTIONS:

Heat an inch of vegetable oil in a heavy-bottomed pot over high heat until oil reaches 375º.

Meanwhile, mix all dry ingredients. Spread pickles onto a paper towel, and dry off. Then dredge in the dry mixture, placing one pickle into the oil at a time.

Fry until golden brown about 1-2 minutes, then remove with a slotted spoon.

As pickles cool just a touch, mix up all dipping sauce ingredients.

Eat while hot!

 

Enjoy all the gifting my loves!

 

**Recipe adapted from Food Network’s Kitchen

TAGS:DIYfried picklesorganic cucumbersrefrigerator pickles
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