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Dill Pickle Relish

Filed Under: Relish, Seasonal Summer Tagged With: Cucumber

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This Dill Pickle Relish might just possibly become your most favourite relish ever for hotdogs and burgers.

It’s delicious and goes well with ketchup and mustard, and fresh chopped onion and tomato.

And, it’s one of the easiest relishes you will ever make.

This recipe makes a lot, so you may want to cut it in half: though mind you, come summer, people shovel this stuff onto their burgers and dogs.

This is a tested recipe from Ball and Bernardin.

Dill Pickle Relish 2003

Contents hide
  • 1 The recipe
  • 2 Dill Pickle Relish
    • 2.1 Ingredients
    • 2.2 Instructions
    • 2.3 Nutrition
  • 3 Reference information
  • 4 Recipe notes
  • 5 Recipe Source
  • 6 Nutrition information
    • 6.1 Regular version
    • 6.2 Sugar and salt-free version

The recipe

If you wish to adjust batch size, do the math first on paper.

Jar size choices: Quarter-litre (½ US pint / 250 ml / 8 oz) OR half-litre (1 US pint / 500 ml/ 16 oz)

Processing method: Water bath or steam canning

Yield: 7 x  half-litre (US pint) jars

Headspace: 2 cm (½ inch)

Processing time: 15 minutes either size jar

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Dill Pickle Relish

Yield: 7 x half-litre (1 US pint) jars
Course Condiments
Cuisine American
Keyword Relish
Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Servings 7 x half-litre (1 US pint) jars
Calories 11kcal
Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

  • 3.5 kg pickling cucumbers (8 lbs)
  • 2 teaspoons turmeric
  • 175 g pickling salt (½ cup / 6 oz)
  • 1 litre white wine vinegar (5% acidity or higher. 4 cups / 32 oz)
  • 75 g sugar (white. ⅓ cup / 2 oz)
  • 2 tablespoons dill seed
  • 325 g onion (finely chopped. 2 ½ cups / 12 oz / 3 medium. Measured after prep. About 500 g / 1 lb before.)
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

  • Wash the cucumbers under cold running water, trim off both ends. Chop into large chunks, then finely chop in a food processor (use pulse) or put through a food mill. Put in a large pot or very large bowl. Sprinkle with the turmeric plus the salt, mix the vegetables a bit with your hands. Top with enough cold water to cover completely. (The exact quantity of water doesn't matter.) Let stand for 2 hours.
  • Meanwhile, you can prep the onion (wash, peel, then chop) and set aside.
  • Drain the cucumber, rinse, and drain again.
  • In large pot, mix together everything from the vinegar down to and including the dill seed, then stir in the onion and then the cucumber.
  • Bring to a boil, lower to a simmer and simmer for 10 minutes.
  • Pack hot into quarter-litre (½ US pint) jars or half-litre (US pint) jars.
  • Leave 2 cm (½ inch) headspace for either size jar.
  • Debubble, adjust headspace.
  • Wipe jar rims.
  • Put lids on.
  • Process in a water bath or steam canner.
  • Process either size jar for 15 minutes; increase time as needed for your altitude.
  • Best after at least a month of jar time.

Nutrition

Serving: 2g | Calories: 11kcal | Carbohydrates: 2.5g | Protein: 0.3g | Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 176mg | Fiber: 0.3g | Sugar: 1.6g

Reference information

How to water bath process.

How to steam can.

When water-bath canning or steam canning, you must adjust the processing time for your altitude.

Australia and New Zealand vinegar strength special notes.

Recipe notes

  • The reason they call for pickling cucumbers is because those varieties have the least water in them, and, because the skins are unwaxed. Other varieties would work, provided the skin is unwaxed (e.g. from your garden, or English cucumbers.) You’ll just need to work a bit harder to get the extra water out.
  • Instead of white wine vinegar, you could use regular white vinegar (5% acidity or higher).
  • Instead of the salt, you can use a non-bitter, non-clouding salt sub. We have found Herbamare Sodium-Free performs well in that regard.
  • You can reduce the sugar, or use the same volume amount of granulated Splenda®, or use ½ teaspoon of liquid stevia. For stevia, we’d recommend Better Stevia liquid stevia .

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This is about the texture you want.

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Showing how much liquid was pressed out, even after the initial draining.

Recipe Source

Dill Relish. In: Ball Blue Book. Muncie, Indiana: Healthmark LLC / Jarden Home Brands. Edition 37. 2014. Page 87.

Dill Relish. In: Kingry, Judi and Lauren Devine. Ball /Bernardin Complete Book of Home Preserving. Toronto, Canada: Robert Rose Inc. 2015. Page 219.

Modifications made:

  • Suggested swaps of sugar and salt.

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Nutrition information

Regular version

Estimating that 10% of the salt was absorbed by the vegetable.

Per 2 tablespoons / 30 ml:

  • 11 calories, 63 mg sodium

Sugar and salt-free version

Per 2 tablespoons / 30 ml:

  • 8 calories, 1 mg sodium.
  • Weight Watchers PointsPlus®: 2 to 4 tablespoons: 0 points; 5 to 14 tablespoons: 1 point.

Dill pickle relish nutrition

Dill Pickle Relish 2001

* Nutrition info provided by https://caloriecount.about.com

* PointsPlus™ calculated by healthycanning.com. Not endorsed by Weight Watchers® International, Inc, which is the owner of the PointsPlus® registered trademark.

* Better Stevia ® is a registered trademark of the NOW Foods Company.

* Herbamare ® is a registered trademark of the A. Vogel Corporation.

* Pickle Crisp ® is a registered trademark of the Jarden Corporation.

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Dill Pickle Relish 2002

Tagged With: Cucumber

Filed Under: Relish, Seasonal Summer Tagged With: Cucumber

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Dionne U Blanchard

    July 26, 2021 at 6:36 pm

    5 stars
    I’ve made a great batch of your dill relish recipe. It was great and is now in my collection of “this is how I like to eat” Thanks again!! I’ll be checking in on some more recipe!!

    Reply
  2. Mindy P

    August 04, 2020 at 5:55 pm

    Can I ask why the salt bath with rinse step? Genuinely curious what this does. I’m super new to canning. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      September 24, 2020 at 5:12 pm

      The salt bath allows the salt seasoning to seep into the interior of the cucumber pieces for flavour, and at the same time it would have the effect of drawing some of the water in them out by osmosis.

      Reply
  3. Caylor Hafen

    July 09, 2020 at 2:21 pm

    5 stars
    Super easy! It tastes really good.

    Reply
  4. Linda

    August 29, 2019 at 11:10 pm

    In step # 3 drain, rinse, drain again, how much liquid should be left? My relish turned out very dry looking and I only have 9 pints.

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      September 08, 2019 at 2:47 pm

      Canning yields and dryness / moistness can vary so widely sometimes in home canning that it can make you nuts. It probably depends on the produce one is starting with, but other times it just seems phase of the moon. If a relish seems too dry going in the jars, you could add a bit of vinegar or bottled lemon juice to moisten it.

      Reply
  5. Paula

    August 15, 2017 at 4:34 pm

    Can you use dill leaves instead of seeds? I have fresh dill and would love to use it in a cucumber relish. Thanks for your thoughts.

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      August 15, 2017 at 7:26 pm

      Hi Paula, that does sound good, but I’m not sure what the answer would be. Try asking Ball directly on their FB page if they think you could, and if so, what the equivalency there might be? Reference their Dill Pickle Relish recipe in their Blue Book, so the person answering knows where to look. Let us know what the answer is, if you don’t mind.

      Reply
    • Allana Bowman

      July 06, 2022 at 12:23 pm

      I thought the same thing. Found this: Use about 1 tsp. dried dill and 1 tbsp. fresh chopped dill to replace 1/4 tsp. of dill seeds. Add to the dish, then adjust the seasonings by adding more if necessary. I calculated this as 1.5 cups of fresh dill for 2 Tbsp of dill seed.

      Reply
  6. kristan

    July 24, 2017 at 11:58 am

    I have a question about the salt. Do you add extra 2 T. salt when you add the vinegar? Or do you just add salt substitute then?

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      July 24, 2017 at 5:02 pm

      Hi Kristan, are you making it with canning salt, or salt sub?

      Reply
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