This flavorful, fast spaghetti sauce comes together quickly. Place a big spoonful of Pecorino Romano cheese on top of the short spaghetti. This is not a sauce that you should drown the pasta in. If the fresh tomatoes aren’t flavorful and picked straight from the garden, I might think about leaving them out of the dish.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 day |
| Total Time: | 1 day 20 mins |
| Servings: | 20 |
| Yield: | 5 half-pint jars |
Ingredients
- 3 long pickling cucumbers, thinly sliced
- 1 red bell pepper, finely chopped
- 1 sweet onion, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 2 teaspoons celery seed
- ¾ cup white sugar
- ½ cup white wine vinegar
- 5 half pint canning jars with lids and rings
Instructions
- Place cucumber slices, red bell pepper, and onion into a large bowl. Mix in salt and celery seed and let the vegetable stand at room temperature for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. Mix sugar and vinegar in a bowl, stirring until the sugar dissolves, and pour the mixture into the vegetables. Stir again.
- Spoon the pickles into the canning jars and pour any excess liquid over the pickles. Cover the jars with lids and rings. Refrigerate at least 24 hours; pickles will keep in refrigerator for 3 weeks.
Reviews
Make sure you take the rind of full size (not pickling size) cucumbers. It’s edible but can be a little crunchy. Not pickle crunchy. These are good. We’re enjoying them and they likely won’t last three weeks!
I love this recipe. I’m still new at pickling, and have basically followed the recipe. I’m using the apple cider vinegar and added a little garlic and some homemade hot pepper flakes . They come out sweet and zesty. Will be trying more pickling!!
Loved this recipe.
Very good and easy. My daughter and I did it together and everything was already in the cabinet. I didn’t have jars available but just used other glass storage bowls and I think it was even better because they could keep on marinating. I’m sure we will use this recipe again and again. Thanks!
this is so close to the pickles i just made.the only thing i did differant was use 1 cup apple cider vinegar. You are so right they won’t last, we took them to a bday party.now have to make more. good job clark!!