Trust me, you need to be pickling your watermelon rinds ????
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What to do with watermelon rinds?
Watermelon is a favorite in our house during the summer, and these spicy pickled watermelon rinds are the perfect way to use up the rinds! They’re crunchy, fresh, spicy, and sooooo freakin’ delicious! Eats like a crunchy satisfying radish and is the perfect accompaniment to your grilled favorites, tacos/nachos/burritos, or adding to a charcuterie platter!
Spicy Pickled Watermelon Rind Recipe
The rind of ½ a watermelon, cubed*
1 sliced jalapeno (remove seeds if you want it less spicy)
1 ½ c of apple cider vinegar
½ c water
¼ c sugar
2 tsp coarse sea salt
**I removed the green outer layer for better texture, but the green layer is perfectly edible if you’d like to keep it.
Method:
1. In a 32oz mason jar or jar, fill the jar up with watermelon rind cubes. Pack in the sliced jalapenos. The mixture will shrink as it sits in the pickling liquid so really try to pack it in.
2. In a small saucepan over medium heat, add sugar, salt, vinegar, and water. Bring to a simmer stirring to dissolve the sugar and salt.
3. Remove from heat and pour the hot pickling liquid over the watermelon rind. Allow the jar to cool at room temp before storing it in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. Serve with your grilled favorites, add it to a charcuterie platter, serve with tacos or nachos, or enjoy it straight out of the jar!
Making Pickled Watermelon Rind (FERMENTED & Tastes Like Dill Pickles!)
Learn to make pickled watermelon rind using our easy fermented watermelon rind recipe. Don't ever throw away the rind of a watermelon again! Crazy, it tastes just like a dill pickle! Paul and Sarah from The Fermentation Adventure walk you through their recipe, which uses a salt brine to create its own vinegar taste (lactic acid).
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Stop Throwing Away Watermelon Rinds! Make a Delicious Beef Stir Fry Instead.
WASTE NOT, WANT NOT! Depression Era recipe for WATERMELON RIND PICKLES
A favorite recipe from my grandmother! During the Great Depression, food was not wasted. Something was created from every part of food! Hope you enjoy this “throwback in time” and it also becomes a favorite of yours!! + dehydrate the watermelon for a fruit roll up candy that all will enjoy!! Nothing goes to waste! I’ll put the recipe down below in the morning after this has uploaded!
Recipe:
We only had 1/2 of a large watermelon, so I cut that up and used the rind from the 1/2.
8 cups Apple Cider Vinegar
6 cups water
Bring to a boil, add bag of spices when quite hot:
2T Whole Allspice
1T Cloves
2 or more pieces of stick Cinnamon
1T Mace
2 pieces of peeled Ginger
At boiling point, add 8 cups of Sugar, 3 or more thinly sliced Lemons and 2 teaspoons of Salt.
Pour over rind and let sit overnight in refrigerator.
Day 2 - Pour entire mix into pan and bring to a boil. Once boiling, remove the rind and place into Jars, put a stick of cinnamon down into each jar as well as 3/4 of a teaspoon of pickle crisp.
Let the brine, spice bag and lemons lightly boil for about 10 minutes, stirring. Remove spice bag and lemons, discard.
Ladle brine into jars leaving 1/2 inch head space. Place hot jars into water bath canner. Put on the lid. Once boiling, process for the recommended time for your altitude! Turn off heat, remove lid and let the jars sit for 5 minutes. Transfer jars to a towel on the counter, and let cool untouched for 12-24 hours.
If any jars do not seal, move that jar to the refrigerator, once cooled, and enjoy immediately!!
(My grandmother would be proud! The pickles turned out FABULOUS!!) ????
Making Pickled Watermelon Rind
Frank Anderson shows you how to make the best pickled watermelon rind.
WATERMELON RIND PICKLES - EASY EASY EASY
We’re making pickles from watermelon rind. Just by using our saved pickle brine and watermelon rind we can have delicious refrigerator pickles. You will definitely want to make these.