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These vanilla bean pickled strawberries are super simple to make and perfectly balanced, sweet, and tangy. Serve with yogurt or ice cream, or even throw them on a salad.
Why you’re going to love pickled strawberries!
Savoring the flavors of summer is one of the best things about getting into canning and preserving. And while you might typically think of pickling for things like beets and cucumbers it works fabulously with fruit as well!
Have you ever tried my Pickled Cherries? 100% delicious and super delicious to make. Just like these pickled strawberries!
The strawberries are pickled in a simple mix of apple cider vinegar, water, and honey for sweetness. To make things even more flavorful, I added peppercorns and vanilla beans.
Great when munched on from the jar but equally delicious on plain Greek yogurt, vanilla ice cream, or tossed in a salad.
If sweet and savory is your jam you’re going to love these vanilla bean pickled strawberries.
Ingredients for pickled strawberries
- Quartered strawberries
- Peppercorns
- Vanilla beans
- Water
- Apple Cider vinegar
- Honey
- Kosher salt
How to make
- In a clean, sterilized jar, add quartered berries, peppercorn, and split vanilla beans.
- In a small saucepan add water, apple cider vinegar, honey, and kosher salt.
- Bring to a boil and pour over berries.
- Cover the jar and let cool to room temperature.
- Add to the refrigerator and store overnight to pickle.
My Pro Tips
Recipe Tips
- Use a sterilized jar with a well-fitting lid. If you have a dishwasher, it does a great job of sterilizing jars.
- If you don’t have vanilla beans you can use 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste in its place.
- For a more prominent vanilla flavor slice your beans in half so the seeds will heavily incorporate the brine.
- Use your pickled strawberries within 2 weeks for optimal flavor and texture.
How to serve
Not sure how to use up your pickled strawberries?
They taste delicious served over Instant Pot Yogurt or a topping on your Crunchy Yogurt Cantaloupe Breakfast Bowl. You could also toss them into a Spinach Berry Salad or my Green Goddess Salad.
Also, don’t sleep on the delicious strawberry-briney juice left in the jar. You could easily use it like a traditional Homemade Apple Shrub.
More strawberry recipes
Vanilla Bean Pickled Strawberries
Ingredients
- 2 cups quartered strawberries, about 1 pound
- 2 whole vanilla beans, cut down the middle
- 1-½ teaspoons peppercorns
- ¾ cup apple cider vinegar, 180 ml
- ¾ cup water, 180 ml
- ½ cup honey, 120 ml
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- In a large jar add berries, vanilla beans, and peppercorns. For a more intense vanilla bean flavor scrape out 1 of the halved beans.
- In a medium-sized saucepan add apple cider vinegar, water, honey and kosher salt. Bring to a boil over high heat and pour over the berries.
- Put the lid on the berries and cool to room temperature.
- Place in the refrigerator and let sit overnight.
- Enjoy over ice cream, yogurt or in a salad.
Notes
- 1 pound of quartered strawberries should give you about 2 cups of strawberries.
- I’m calculating eight 1/4 cup servings for the whole recipe.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I have never tried this before! This sounds amazing!
I can’t wait to try these on a good spinach salad! I bet they will add the perfect combo of sweet and tangy!
Oooh, this sounds so fun, I’ve got to try it!
Pickle ALL the things! <3 this.
YUM seems like an understatement!
Such a perfect flavor! Love this!
This looks like a great idea! I would love to give this a try!
I love Strawberries a lot. I am growing few organic in my backyard and they are very tasty, sweet with a touch of acidic. Definetely this is something to try xoxo