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A recipe to make homemade pickling spice in a white bowl.
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Pickling Spice Recipe

Pickling Spice is an easy seasoning mix to create amazing Dill Pickles, Corned Beef Brisket, braised stews, soups, and rice. Did you know it is also great in marinades, or as a brine to flavor meat? Ground and mixed into marinades, it can be injected into beef briskets! Pickling Spice is easy to make at home and a great way to use things up in the pantry or spice cabinet.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time0 minutes
Total Time10 minutes
Course: Seasoning
Cuisine: American
Keyword: corned beef spices, pickle spice, pickling, pickling spice, pickling spice mix, spices
Servings: 12
Calories: 102kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon coriander seed
  • ½ cinnamon stick
  • 1 tablespoon dill seed
  • 1 tablespoon whole allspice berries
  • 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
  • 5 dry bay leaves
  • 1 teaspoon peppercorns black, pink, white, or mixed is fine
  • 2 teaspoons yellow mustard seeds

Optional Variations

  • 2 star anise
  • 8 whole cloves
  • 4 juniper berries
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 2 cardamon pods

Instructions

  • In a small bowl, combine all your spices. Add some of the optional ones I listed for addition flavor.
  • Keep in a glass jar with a tight fitting lid, and use within 6 months.

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Notes

How To Use Pickling Spice

Try this blend in quick and canned pickled vegetables like Red Onions, carrots, jalapenos, butter pickles, Green Beans, and beets. You can boil a vinegar water solution, add this pickle spices, and let it cool. Then pour over the vegetables and refrigerate for a simple, quick, vegetable pickles. Eat within a week. For a sweet taste, add a pinch of sugar.
Use a mini food processor, spice grinder, or mortar and pestle to grind the pickling spices. Mix the ground spices with your marinade and fill a meat injector. And inject the marinade into the beef brisket or meat you are cooking.
More Recipe Ideas: Use not only adds characteristic flavor to pickles, but it also adds complex flavor to braised stews, bean, and rice dishes.
PRO TIP: One of the most popular ways to use this spice mix is on Corned Beef Brisket, try my recipe!
For meat stews, you can tie the spices into a piece of cheesecloth tied with a long piece of butcher string and braise in the pot or slow cooker until the meat is deliciously tender. It works well in crockpot or slow-cooker recipes, pot roast, soups, and braised meat dishes.

Flavor Variations

You can add additional spices to add your basic mix, try some or all of these:

  • a few whole cloves
  • ½ cinnamon stick
  • a couple of star anise
  • some juniper berries
  • ground ginger
  • a couple of cardamon pods

Storage Tips

Store your mix in an airtight container out of direct sunlight, small mason jars work really well. Use within a few months. The fresher your spices, the stronger your spice blend will be in dishes.

Nutrition

Serving: 12g | Calories: 102kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 43mg | Potassium: 356mg | Fiber: 8g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 593IU | Vitamin C: 5mg | Calcium: 217mg | Iron: 4mg