Pickled Parsley or Sage

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This brine mimics the sensation of bully store-bought relish and helps the herbs clasp their brightness. Keep the parsley connected the stem, and propulsion disconnected leaves arsenic you request them. Use the pickled herbs successful salads, sandwiches, couscous and meatball mixtures.

The brine tin beryllium refrigerated up to 1 week successful advance. The herbs request to beryllium refrigerated successful an airtight instrumentality for astatine slightest 1 hour, and up to 2 weeks. They whitethorn darken implicit time, but that volition not impact their flavor.

Ingredients

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Servings: 2 Makes astir 2 cups of herbs and 2 1/2 cups of brine

2 cups achromatic vino vinegar
1/2 cupful sugar
1/2 cupful water
2 teaspoons coarse kosher salt
4 cloves garlic, sliced
1 tablespoonful mustard seed
1 spoon crushed reddish capsicum flakes
1 1/2 teaspoons coriander seed
2 cups flat-leaf parsley (on the stem) OR 2 cupsfresh sage leaves, stemmed

The brine look is based connected 1 from John Broening, erstwhile helium was cook astatine Spuntino successful Denver; otherwise, adapted from “The Nimble Cook: New Strategies for Great Meals That Make the Most of Your Ingredients,” by Ronna Welsh (Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019).

Tested by Andy Sikkenga and Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published April 16, 2019

Updated March 16, 2026