Quick Pickles are delicious, small-batch friendly, and super easy to make. Plus, they require no special equipment and are usually ready to eat within a day or two of preparation.

Quick pickles, also known as refrigerator pickles, are simply vegetables that are pickled in a vinegar, water, and salt solution and stored in the refrigerator. (Depending on the recipe, the solution may also include sugar and other spices.)
Our garden is bursting at the seams right now, and we are hustling to preserve all that fresh garden bounty, and one of our favorite ways to do that is pickling. (Yeah, I know, Portland. We can pickle that.)

Our fridge is crammed with tart, tangy quick pickles that will last us through the next couple of months until our traditionally canned, "real" pickles have had time to percolate in their jars out on the pantry shelves.
Quick Pickle Recipes for Your Garden Bounty
Quick Pickles are delicious, small-batch friendly, and super easy to make. Plus, they require no special equipment, and are usually ready to eat within a day or two of preparation.
Pickled Cucumber Salad
Pickled Cucumber Salad is the traditional Danish side dish to everything from hamburgers, meatballs, and sandwiches to chicken and pork. It’s easy to make, healthy, and can stay fresh in the fridge for a week.
Refrigerator Pickles
These refrigerator sweet pickles with cinnamon and cloves are delicious and easy to make. They are crunchy, sweet, tart and subtly flavored with cinnamon, clove, black peppercorns, bay leaf, mace and mustard seeds.
Swedish Cucumbers
Swedish Cucumbers are a snap to make! Ready to eat in just hours, you will love the fresh, briny sweetness these easy quick pickles bring to the plate. (No canning required!)
Spicy Quick Pickled Cucumbers
Quick Pickles are the answer to a summer bounty of vegetables. These Spicy Quick Pickled Cucumbers are so easy and delicious, you'll want to have a jar in the fridge all summer long!
Homemade Dill Pickle Chips
These Homemade Dill Pickle Chips take a few easy steps to transform simple cucumbers into fresh and crunchy, delicious pickle chips. Perfect for snacking, sandwiches and of course, burgers. These are not like sweet bread and butter pickles. There is very little sugar, so they are more on the tart side with slight sweetness.
Easy Refrigerator Pickles
Easy Homemade Refrigerator Pickles – A super-easy recipe for homemade pickles that cure right in your fridge so there’s no need to preserve them in jars. Ready in just a day or two, these classic dills will be a welcomed addition to your summer time parties and barbecues!
Easy Refrigerator Garlic Dills
These homemade garlic dill pickles produce an epic crunch! Just pour boiling salted water over the cucumbers, garlic and dill and the pickles are ready for crunching the next day!
Spicy Vietnamese Pickled Vegetables
These Spicy Vietnamese Pickled Vegetables provide some crunch, tang, and texture to whatever you put it on.
Quick Pickled Vidalia Onions
Quick Pickled Vidalia Onions ~ this sweet onion refrigerator pickle takes just minutes to prepare, and you’ll reap the rewards all summer long on burgers, brats, steaks, sandwiches and tacos!
Authentic Mexican Pickled Carrots
Mexican pickled carrots are a crunchy delicious snack, often served at Mexican restaurants. Make this easy quick pickle recipe at home!
Grilled Pickles (Zucchini Pickles)
Homemade grilled pickles are a delicious topping on burgers.
Pink Peppercorn Pickled Swiss Chard Stems
A simple little recipe that uses an otherwise throwaway bit, swiss chard stems. Pink peppercorn pickled swiss chard stems are super yummy on top of a salad, as a condiment for a sandwich, or just on their own as a crunchy, salty snack.
Quick Pickled Jalapeños
Quick Pickled Jalapeños ~ your pickles are ready in the time it takes you to slice your peppers, and you’re going to want to load up on these, because jalapeños make everything better!
Russian Grandma's Pickled Tomatoes
Get your pickling on! Try these Russian pickled tomatoes: healthy, delicious and super easy to make. A flavorful and refreshing appetizer or snack made in only 30 minutes that will keep for months on the shelf.
Quick Pickled Watermelon Radish
The pickled watermelon radish is sweet and slightly sour, with a hint of spiciness. It takes only 5 minutes to put together and another 5 minutes to marinate. It works as a fun appetizer by itself and is a great ingredient to add to your salad. {Gluten-Free, Vegan}
Spiced Crunchy Balsamic Beet Pickle
This is the easiest and tastiest Balsamic Beet pickle out there! Crunchy beet, marinated with chilli and caraway and balsamic vinegar.
Refrigerator Pickled Radish & Turnips
There is still time left to savor summer and my favorite way is to make giant batches of refrigerator pickles. Put aside the cucumbers and learn to make Pickled Radish and Turnips.
Small Batch Refrigerator Pickled Beets
Small Batch Refrigerator Pickled Beets – Are extra beets taking over the back of your refrigerator? Break up that rabble and put them to good use with this delightfully simple pickling recipe!
Pickled Vegetables (with Leftover Veggies)
Pickled vegetables are easy to make using cauliflower, peppers, fennel, onions, garlic and carrots. Put any veggies in a simple vinegar and oil brine.
Pickled Red Onions Recipe
Use these quick pickled red onions to add punch to vegan dishes and help cut through the richness of meaty ones. You really can't go wrong.
Prettiest Pickled Onions
This recipe for pickled onions are absolutely the prettiest and easiest thing imaginable. All you need are onions, vinegar and peppercorns!
Pickled Pineapple
Pickled pineapple is perfect when you want something sweet, sour and spicy all at the same time.
Pickled Green Strawberries
Unripe strawberries are too tart to eat. But pickled green strawberries are amazing and so easy to make.

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Phil says
Thank you for the small recipes. I do a lot of canning but sometimes am put off because my recipes are a lot larger and I don't want to get the big water bath ready...I can do most of these easily, even the recipes calling for a water bath...just use one of my larger pots. And I can try one recipe to see if I/we like it...to see if I want to make more.
Garry says
These look great
Hannah says
I didn't even know you could pickle all these things. I am super intrigued and planning to try a few. Thanks for the idea, I am super excited to try this
Holly says
I love pickling veggies...these are awesome!
Tanya Schroeder says
These are lovely and i bet they taste delicious!