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Home / Pickles / Zucchini bread and butter pickles

Zucchini bread and butter pickles

Filed Under: Pickles, Seasonal Fall Tagged With: Courgettes, Summer Squash, Zucchini

Delicious, fresh-tasting home-canned pickles that you can make at any time of year with zucchini (aka courgette) from your local green grocer — zucchini is usually affordable year round.

This recipe is from Ball.

See also: Bread and Butter Pickles

Contents hide
  • 1 The recipe
  • 2 Zucchini bread and butter pickles
    • 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

Jar size choice: Half-litre (1 US pint / 16 oz)

Processing method: Either water-bath or steam canning

Yield: 5 x half-litre (US pint) jars

Headspace: 2 cm (½ inch)

Processing time: 10 minutes

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Zucchini bread and butter pickles

Yield: 5 x half-litre (US pint) jars
Course Pickles
Cuisine American
Keyword Zucchini
Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings 5 x half-litre (US pint) jars
Calories 35kcal
Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

  • 2 kg zucchini (small, sliced. About 14 to 16 small zucchini, 4 lbs)
  • 1 kg onions (peeled and sliced thinly. 2 lbs. About 8 small onion)
  • 350 g green bell pepper (chopped. ¾ lb. Measured after seeding and chopping. 2 medium green.)
  • 125 g pickling salt (⅓ cup / 4 oz)
  • ice cubes (few handfuls)
  • 2 tablespoons mustard seed
  • 1 teaspoon turmeric
  • 1 teaspoon celery seed
  • 1 teaspoon peppercorns
  • 400 g sugar (white. 2 cups / 14 oz)
  • 750 ml vinegar (5% acidity or higher. 3 cups / 24 oz)
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

  • Prep the zucchini, onion and bell pepper. Put in a large bowl.
  • Add the salt OR 3 tablespoons of salt sub, toss gently.
  • Add the ice cubes, toss gently.
  • Let stand for 1 ½ hours, tossing gently occasionally.
  • Drain the vegetables well and let them sit in a sieve while you do the next step.
  • Combine all the remaining ingredients, from the mustard seed down to the vinegar. Bring to a boil.
  • Add the well-drained veg to the pickling mixture, and simmer on low for 10 minutes.
  • Pack hot into half-litre (1 US pint) jars.
  • Leave 2 cm (½ inch) headspace.
  • Add ¼ teaspoon Pickle Crisp ® (optional) to each jar, then top up each jar with the pickling mixture leaving 2 cm (½ inch) headspace.
  • Debubble, adjust headspace with pickling mixture.
  • Wipe jar rims.
  • Put lids on.
  • Process in a water bath or steam canner.
  • Process for 10 minutes; increase time as needed for your altitude.
  • Best after at least a month of jar time.

Nutrition

Serving: 7g | Calories: 35kcal | Carbohydrates: 8.1g | Protein: 0.6g | Fat: 0.2g | Sodium: 4mg | Fiber: 0.7g | Sugar: 6.8g

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

  • You can use white vinegar or cider vinegar (5% or higher for both). Cider gives a bit of a sweeter taste but your pickling mixture will be a bit murkier.
  • 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 3 teaspoons of liquid stevia. For stevia, we’d recommend Better Stevia liquid stevia .
  • If you have a mandolin, you can make groovy waved cut zucchini slices.

Recipe source

Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving. Daleville, Indiana: Hearthmark LLC. Edition 36. 2013. Page 87.

Nutrition information

Regular version

Per 7 pickles / 50 g

  • 35 calories, 609 mg sodium
  • Weight Watchers PointsPlus®: 7 pickles: 1 point

zucchin-bread-butter-nutrition-sugar-salt

Sugar and Salt Free Version

Per 7 pickles / 50 g

  • 14 calories, 4 mg sodium
  • Weight Watchers PointsPlus®: 7 pickles: 0 points; 14 to 28 pickles: 1 point.

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* 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.

Tagged With: Courgettes, Summer Squash, Zucchini

Filed Under: Pickles, Seasonal Fall Tagged With: Courgettes, Summer Squash, Zucchini

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