Have you ever wondered how to reuse pickle juice instead of pouring it down the drain? Here are quite a few uses for that pickle juice!
11 Ways to Reuse Pickle Juice
1. Marinade: combine juice with chopped fresh herbs and some olive oil for a tasty meat marinade. After all, pickle juice is basically vinegar combined with spices and herbs.
2. BBQ Sauce Booster: Add a little pickle juice to your favorite bottled barbecue sauce for a tangy, tasty kick.
3. Pickled Veggies: Make your own pickled veggies. Cut carrots into sticks, snip the ends off of fresh green beans, and cut cauliflower into flowerets. Celery sticks, broccoli flowerets, and sliced cucumbers are just a few more ideas. Place them into the pickle jar of juice and back into the refrigerator.
4. Onions: Slice onions into rings and marinate them in pickle juice. Use on turkey and ham sandwiches!
5. Potato, macaroni or tuna salad: Add some pickle juice to your favorite tuna salad, potato salad or macaroni salad for added flavor.
6. Enhance Gravy: Add a bit of pickle juice to the Crockpot or Dutch oven when making pot roast or braised meat. This will add a great flavor to your gravy!
7. Deviled Eggs: Add pickle juice with the mayonnaise in your deviled eggs. Marinate them to make pickled eggs.
8. Corned Beef: Make your own corned beef by saving 2-3 jars of pickle juice and covering a beef brisket with it. Bake as directed.
9. Tartar Sauce: if you make your own tartar sauce, this is the perfect addition!
10. Brine: You would need to save quite a bit, but pickle juice makes a great brine for chicken.
11. Drink It: I’ve read that you can drink pickle juice, but don’t overdo it. You can very quickly reach your full day’s supply of sodium intake without even realizing it.
Do you reuse your pickle juice? Tell us how!
Try my recipe for homemade Claussen pickles!
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Pam says
My husband loves a “Dirty Pickle Juice” martini
Greg says
A splash in a Bloody Mary or Red Beer (maybe similar to the Caesar drink noted above). Yum!
Linda says
Awesome in a refreshing CESAR drink.
happyhappyjoyjoy says
Pickle juice and the little bits in the bottom of the jar makes amazing vinaigrette salad dressings.
Cheryl says
I use pickle juice in my deviled eggs and dresings for potato/macaroni salads. But have you ever put hard boiled eggs in pickle juice? Left there for a week or two and they are a great snack too!!
Amanda Formaro says
Yes, just recently in fact! Thanks for sharing!
Alanna says
My spousal equivalent likes me to make pickled eggs with it.
Amanda Formaro says
Spousal equivalent! LOL
carol houthuys says
My family members use the sweet pickle juice when prepare canned salmon for sandwiches. It became popular during the depression years. Also for tuna sandwiches they used sweet relish for the mix. Kept the costs down the pickle juice is from homemade pickles and the relish is from also homemade relish.
Bethany says
Polish dill pickle soup is the greatest.
Amanda Formaro says
Oh I’ve never heard of that!
ALBINA A BOURGEOIS says
recipe for the polish pickle soup
Anonymous says
So, some of the ideas I've previously tried through my many experiments at home. Some are better than others, but the super basic idea from one of the posts on here regarding putting it a spray bottle is genius!
I put it on fries, AMAZING, I put on chicken as a spray/baste tool, AMAZING….I'm thinking of spraying everything now, maybe even my plants see what they think about it ;)