Easy Keto Kosher Homemade Pickles

Pickle fans unite! On the Keto diet, you can’t just grab any jar of pickles off the store shelves. Some pickle jars are filled with added sugar. You can make these easy homemade pickles for yourself and never need to go to the store for your late-night craving again. Use this recipe as a starting guide, which is for pretty classic-tasting pickle spears. You can increase the garlic flavor, heat level, or other spices and dill to your liking. If you’re making any Keto kosher recipes, this would be perfect for you. The addition of garlic to the brine makes these pickles authentically kosher, and the salt can simply be replaced with kosher salt!

Note the ingredients

Please note the ingredients used for pickling the cucumbers. Use this ingredient list as a guide, which you can follow exactly, and alter the ingredients as you see fit. Add more or less of a spice to your tastes. There is a small spice level included in this recipe, which you can alter as well.

Can I use kosher salt instead of pickling salt?

To make these kosher pickles Keto-friendly and fitted to any personal needs, you can swap the pickling salt out for kosher salt. There’s no need to do any math; you can substitute with kosher salt 1:1. And while you’re reading this, note that you can also use coarse sea salt if you’re out of pickling salt.

The benefits of eating pickles

What’s the point in eating pickles? It might be worth it to make your own at home because pickles may help improve your gut health. If you haven’t heard the word, your gut health might be linked to beyond just your physical health and building a healthy microbiome. The good bacteria in pickled foods is possibly the key to good gut health.