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19 Recipes to Add Pickles to Your Next Meal

Satisfy that urge for brine with these dishes.
Photo of Potato Pickle Salad.
Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Erika Joyce

You need something tangy, tart, salty, and crunchy, and nothing but pickles—or recipes with pickles as crucial ingredients—will do. If you consider yourself among the pickle-obsessed, you probably already layer bread-and-butters into any burger or sandwich, season every slaw with pickle juice, and stir pickle relish into every not-so-secret sauce. You might even pickle every cucumber you meet. But these recipes go further. Scroll down for ideas to use up the stash of pickles that already takes up half of your fridge, and stick around for lots of ideas for making fresh new jars. Corn and blackberry pickles, incoming!

  • A stack of tuna melt sandwiches with oozing cheddar cheese and pickled onions on a plate for our best tuna melt recipe.
    Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Micah Marie Morton
    1/19

    Tuna Melt

    Okay, we know that it's pretty obvious to put a pickle-y sandwich on a list of the best recipes with pickles. But this is no ordinary tuna melt; quick-pickled onions plus chopped dill pickles sing when nestled into the creamy tuna salad with its blanket of gooey cheese.

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  • Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Micah Marie Morton
    2/19

    Chowchow

    Your pickled condiment collection is not complete unless you're transforming unripe green tomatoes into a jar of chowchow to pile on a sandwich or serve alongside anything grilled.

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  • Photo by Christina Holmes
    11/19

    Quick-Pickled Charred Vegetables

    Here's a pickle move you may not have tried before. Char your veggies on a grill, then give them the brine treatment.

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  • Jason Lowe
    12/19

    Pickled Corn

    If Can I pickle that? is a question you often ask yourself, this recipe is for you. And the answer (with corn at least) is definitely yes. Serve with whatever you're grilling this summer.

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  • Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Erika Joyce
    13/19

    Pickle Potato Salad

    This double-the-pickle, double-the-fun dinner salad includes sliced dill pickles, shredded rotisserie or leftover cooked chicken, and a tangy pickle-inspired spice mix.

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  • Photo by Baxter Miller
    14/19

    Red Weapons

    Add these pickled tomatoes to eggs, soup, sauce, or salsa. Or use them to brighten up this breakfast casserole.

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  • Photo by Alex Lau
    15/19

    Pickled Blackberries

    Pickled blackberries are a great foil for ice cream—or toss them on a salad for a pop of fruity tang.

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  • Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Micah Marie Morton
    16/19

    Shaak-no Sambharo

    You can use cauliflower, carrots, radish, or raw turmeric to make this quick achaar. Serve with dal, rice, roti, and a sautéed vegetable.

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  • Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Olivia Mack Anderson
    19/19

    Fast Favorite Garlic Dill Pickles

    Once you've cooked all these recipes with pickles, you might find your favorite section of the fridge sadly bare. Time to make these classics to stock up again.

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