Calling all pickle lovers! A tangy and creamy dill pickle salad dressing recipe made with pickle juice, avocado, and olive oil. #paleo #vegan #glutenfree #healthy
Did anyone else notice the little heart in the picture above. Legend has it that only those who truly love pickles are able to see it.
And that’s when we will learn who will be totally disgusted or totally on board with today’s recipe. I’m not here to judge, but if you don’t like pickles you’re doing life wrong.
This is coming from the girl who ate pickle sandwiches. As in just bread, a little bit of mayo, and a mountain of dill chips. The ladies at the deli station in our college dining hall looked at me like I was crazy. They must have had x-ray vision or something, cuz they got that ish spot on.
And being the crazy non-food wasting kinda gal I am, I didn’t want to belittle this jar of precious liquid gold to the kitchen sink. A couple of swigs in (no shame), it came to me.
You put vinegar in a salad dressing, so why not pickle juice?! No more brines left behind.
You could easily use the leftover pickle juice with some olive oil and a squirt of Dijon straight in the pickle jar, but I wanted to make something a little more cray cray to better personify my status in the realm of pickle love. Because making sandwiches and salad dressings out of them clearly wasn’t enough. So I added some creaminess with a guest performance by my friend avocado to really put this green tang of thang over the edge.
- 1½ cups dill pickle juice
- 1 ripe avocado
- ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
- In a food processor, combine avocado, and pickle juice. Run processor until smooth and creamy.
- With processor running on low, stream in olive oil through the shoot until combined.
adapted from Back To Her Roots
I used my favorite pickles that I shared on instagram a while back, since there’s no added preservatives or additives which is hard to find in the pickle aisle.
Most contain some sort of coloring and funky preservatives, so I thank the pickle universe that they finally gave me one I can worship. Especially since they’re the same price! But feel free whatever pickle tickles your fancy!
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oh my gosh I love pickles! What an awesome way to incorporate the pickle juice into something eatable and delicious 🙂
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THIS THIS THIS!!! I FRIGGIN LOVE THIS! great way to use extra pickle juice and avocado oil kicks BUTT!
What a super awesome and creative way to use leftover pickle juice! I bet this would definitely be delish with sauerkraut juice too!
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Ooo! I like the way you think! 😉
Fantastic idea, Emily! Looks like I know what I’m making for lunch… Thanks for sharing!
Haha, such a fun idea! I LOVE pickles…LOVE!
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Peanut butter and pickle sandwiches are still one of my favorites! Ha! Love this yummy pickle dressing, I’ll be trying it!
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How long will this keep?
About a week. 🙂
I thought I was the only freak who ate mayo and dill pickle chip sandwiches!
OMG are we long lost twins?! 😀
I no longer feel alone! I, too, ate/eat pickle sandwiches…….and I used to drink the pickle juice! Can’t wait to try this!
Yay! Pickle lovers unite! 🙂 Hope you enjoy!
Funny ! My favorite treat after school was pickle sandwiches with mayo and Velvetta cheese back in the 70’s. When I’m not feeling well…that’s still one of my comfort foods! Your my kinda a people! Trying the recipe right now. Throwing pickle juice down the drain induces an episode of mourning. Something I don’t want to experience 🙂
Pickle sandwiches for life! 😀 Pickle juice down the drain is like a stake in my heart.
I just made this and it’s really good ! It’s a keeper ! Thanks. I saw a comment about sauerkraut juice, which I’m all over that. I’m thinking olive juice too. Yes !
I used to eat dill pickle and mustard sandwiches after school. In addition I have made Italian dressing with dill pickle juice. I’m positive I will love this.
Italian dressing is SUCH a good idea for pickle juice! Thanks for sharing! 😀
Green olive juice is good, too.
If only I liked olives!!
I love dill pickles! I also eat dill pickle sandwiches, but I do toast, butter and slices of pickles….the butter and pickles are super good together!
Oh man, I’ll have to try that combo!
I don’t see one review, is this stuff good? Sounds delish!
This is delicious! I served it over a side salad with bacon cheeseburger casserole!! YUM! Oh also I didn’t quite have enough pickle juice so I used a mixture of pickle juice, pickled okra juice and banana pepper juice!
So glad to hear Christy! I love your creativity too!
This looks great! I love dill pickle flavoring when it comes to snacks and even sunflower seeds. So I think this would be a great dressing to try. I’m curious what type of salad / food I’d want to serve it with, but I will figure it out! Thank you for sharing your recipe!
I use dill pickle juice in homemade pimento cheese, you can use less mayo and it is yummy
What could I use instead of avacodo?
You could simply not use it, but it wouldn’t be a creamy dressing. I do that all the time when I’m lazy. 🙂
Thanks for the dill pickle sandwich ideas. I have been eating dill pickle and peanut butter sandwiches all my life and I just found an amazing dill Pickle juice recipe that is great. I don’t necessarily like avacados but this looks so good, I have to try it!
Pickles and peanut butter are my favorites, I can’t believe I haven’t tried them together yet!
Now I know what I can do with the pickle juice. I was always throwing it away. Never seen something like this before. Can’t wait to try this
I love pickles and this sounds delicious. I shared it on my blog along with 6 other dill pickle recipes. Hope you’ll get a chance to hope on over and check them out!
http://www.diyhsh.com/2018/02/7-craving-busting-dill-pickle-recipes.html
I am loving all of these dill pickle ideas! Perfect for summer
haha! pickle sandwiches! love that! and this looks so delicious! I’ve never added pickle juice to salad dressing, I’m going to have to try it
this is so genius and SO simple. I wanna put this on all my summer salads!
Seeing as I love both pickles and avocados, I’m so in on this recipe. Looks delicious!
Sounds like a delicious idea to me! And super easy too!
This was super easy to make tonight. Husband and I just started a Keto diet and needed a tasty low carb high fat dressing. We make homemade pickles and just finished a jar off so pickle juice was easy to find! Thanks for the recipe! We will try it on our salad tomorrow.