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Quick Pickled Garlic Scapes Recipe

ByKelly Jensen Posted onJune 18, 2022April 8, 2024 Updated onApril 8, 2024

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These quick pickled garlic scapes are the best garden recipe loaded with herbs, spices, and a sweet and tangy brine. A great recipe for garlic scapes that you can enjoy for weeks in the refrigerator. Turn your sprouted garlic bounty into a crisp and delicious snack.

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Our garden is absolutely popping this year – and we grew a ton of garlic! Last fall we planted about 80 cloves of garlic… and every single one of them sprouted! We’re in June now, and just harvesting the scapes… so I’m always looking for new and delicious ways to use them in recipes. As you can see from the photos and video, we got a ton of delicious scapes! The flavors are amazing: bright, spicy, and crisp.

These fresh garden pickled scapes are the perfect addition to salads, to add to a Caesar, or to just enjoy as a quick snack. Just a note: this is a quick refrigerator scape pickle recipe, and not a canning recipe for long-term storage. If you are looking for a canning recipe, you can find a ton in this great Ball canning guide.

These Quick Pickled Garlic Scapes Are:

Bright
Tangy
Loaded with Flavor
A little Spicy
Garlicky
Crunchy
Vegan, gluten free, vegetarian, and SO good!

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Pickle Recipes with Garlic Scapes

This sweet fresh pickled garlic scape recipe is the perfect way to use that sprouted garlic. Throughout the summer our garden is overloaded with garlic scapes all ripening at once. I make this scape pickles recipe with vinegar and dill, and a quick snack is ready in no time. Enjoy that summer garden bounty with this bright and fresh pickle recipe all summer long. There’s nothing better than seasonal produce right out of the garden – if not your garden, then get fresh garlic scapes at your local farmer’s market stand ?

What’s In Pickled Scapes?

Be sure to visit the recipe card below for full ingredient amounts and recipe instructions!

Garlic Scapes: scapes are the curly flowering part of the garlic plant.
Rice vinegar: I love rice vinegar, I always keep this seasoned vinegar stocked in my pantry!
White Wine Vinegar: not to be confused with normal white vinegar, this white wine vinegar gives the pickled scapes a really nice sweetness and flavor.
Sea salt
Fresh garlic
Fresh dill
Cumin Seeds – to give the pickles a nice earthy flavor
Fennel Seeds – for brightness and spice
Dill Seed – compliments the fresh dill in this recipe, making these pickles pop!
Red Chili Pepper Flakes: for a little heat! I like to add a few shakes to this recipe to give this dish a nice complex depth of flavor.

How To Pickle Garlic Scapes

Wash the scapes thoroughly.
In a sauce pan, heat the rice vinegar, water, white wine vinegar, and salt until the salt dissolves. Add the garlic and seeds/spices to the pot, and remove brine from heat.
Layer the scapes and dill sprigs in mason jars and pour the brine over until the jar is full to the top with brine, covering the scapes.
Cover and chill the scapes overnight – enjoy the next day! Pickled scapes will keep up to 2 weeks in the refrigerator.

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Kelly Jensen

Kelly Jensen has 7 years experience as a food blogger, freelance recipe developer, content creator, beekeeper, and loves cooking everything she can from scratch.