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Get picklin': 35+ easy ways to get your pickle on

Add some tangy crunch to your cooking with these easy recipes and tips for making pickles and ferments.

37 recipes
Quick kitchen scrap pickle.
EASY

Alex Elliott-Howery's quick kitchen scrap pickle

  • Alex Elliott-Howery
Serve these zucchini pickles in burgers or alongside cold meats.
EASY

Andrew McConnell's pickled zucchini

  • 2 hrs +
  • Andrew McConnell
Garlic-pickled cucumbers.
EASY

Adam Liaw's garlic-pickled cucumbers

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Try these pickled carrots in Kylie Kwong's noodle salad.
EASY

Kylie Kwong's Chinese pickled carrots

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
Adam Liaw's bagna cauda with fresh and pickled spring vegetables.

Adam Liaw's vegetables with bagna cauda recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Sour or mild: The big question is what kind of flavour you like.

How to make sauerkraut like Sandor Katz

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Here are some simple tips and tricks to get you started with fermenting.

Fermentation fundamentals: Dos and don'ts for beginners

  • Callan Boys
If you're looking at any decent vegetable and wondering whether it can be pickled, the answer is probably yes.

You don't need a lot of time to make great pickles

  • Becky Krystal
Want to add depth to your fruits and vegetables? There's a ferment for that.

A beginner's guide to fermented vegetables plus three recipes to try

  • Katherine Harmon Courage
This onion pickle is great with cheddar.
EASY

Craft beer onion pickle recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Dan Lepard
Quick Japanese pickles.

Quick Japanese pickles

  • < 30 mins
  • Tony Chiodo
Karen Martini's quick pickle of balsamic mushrooms with trevisio and parmagianno.
EASY

Quick pickle of balsamic mushrooms with treviso and parmesan

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Goat's curd with soda bread and pickled beetroot. Frank Camorra Goat's Curd recipes for Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald. Photographed by Marina Oliphant. February 7, 2013.

Pickled beetroot

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Neil Perry's salad of pickled prawns with baby carrot and hazelnuts.

Prawn recipe: Pickled king prawn, baby carrot and hazelnut salad

  • Neil Perry
A great little pickle to give as a gift or pack for a picnic.
EASY

Dan Lepard's easy piccalilli

  • < 30 mins
  • Dan Lepard
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Poached ocean trout with pickled cucumber

Poached trout with pickled cucumbers

  • 2 hrs +
  • Frank Camorra
DIY smorrebrod.
EASY

Jill Dupleix's DIY smorrebrod (open sandwiches)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
An Israeli-inspired vegetarian dish that has it all.
EASY

Eggplant schnitzel with leek pickles and labna

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Pickled rainbow chard

Kylie Kwong's pickled rainbow chard

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
Serve this spanner crab omelette as a shared starter or a meal for one.

Spanner crab omelette with herbs and pickled daikon

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Kylie Kwong
This chicken dish is easy, but don't rush the marinating time to ensure maximum flavour.
EASY

Neil Perry's spicy miso barbecued chicken with pickled cucumber

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Cucumber, pineapple and chilli pickled salad.
EASY

Cucumber, pineapple and chilli pickled salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Carrot and curry leaf bhajis, pickled carrots.

Carrot and curry leaf bhajis, pickled carrots

  • < 30 mins
  • Jeremy and Jane Strode
Photograph by William Meppem (GW food - july 30) Neil Perry recipe : Pickled beets with pearl barley, pepitas, feta and almonds

Winter salad recipe: Pickled beetroot with pearl barley, pumpkin seeds, feta and almonds

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
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Asian-style coleslaw.
EASY

Kylie Kwong's Asian-style coleslaw

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
Pair this delicious autumnal apple, lentil, grape and watercress salad with sausages for a meal.

Apple, lentil, grape and watercress salad recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LeBrooy
Chicken polpette with spinach and feta yoghurt. Jill Dupleix CHICKEN TONIGHT recipes for Epicure and Good Living. Photographed by Marina Oliphant. Food preparation and styling by Caroline Velik: plates from Minimax, MUST CREDIT. Photographed May 25, 2012. The Age Newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald.
EASY

Chicken polpette with spinach and fetta yoghurt

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Pear and charred fennel salad with a hint of chilli.

Pear and charred fennel salad

  • Mark LeBrooy and Darren Robertson
Charred corn salad with habanero dressing.
EASY

Mexican-style barbecued corn salad recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Josh Niland's leftover smoked salmon sandwich.
EASY

Hot smoked salmon sandwich with pickled beetroot and rocket

  • < 30 mins
  • Josh Niland
Roast duck with rice paper rolls.

Roast duck rice paper rolls

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Lamb kofta flatbreads.
EASY

Jamie Oliver's lamb kofta flatbreads with pickled red cabbage and rose harissa

  • < 30 mins
  • Jamie Oliver
Brioche rolls with crayfish, kimchi and sesame mayonnaise.

Kimchi recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Karen Martini
Get hands-on and join the DIY revolution.

How to grow vegies and make your own yoghurt, oat milk, vinegar, pickles

  • Myffy Rigby
Szechuan pickled cucumbers

Brigitte Hafner's Szechuan pickled cucumbers

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Brigitte Hafner
Murdoch Recipe Article Lead - narrow
EASY

Hot-and-sour cabbage

  • < 30 mins
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