:: Canning Recipes & Food Preservation :::

Canning recipes and food preservation skills for beginners and beyond! Preserve your garden abundance through home canning, drying, freezing, or fermentation. Home food preservation is a long lost - but not difficult - traditional skill. Discover the joy of dehydrating food for long-term storage, fermenting foods to boost probiotics, water bath canning, and pressure canning. Food storage and food preservation is great for emergency preparedness, too.
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Easy & Quick Pickled Onions
Keeping a jar of pickled onions in the fridge means instant flavor! Add these flavorful veggies to sandwiches, top a salad, or chop them into potato salad. These refrigerator pickles are easy to assemble and ready to eat in under a week.
Slow Cooker Apple Butter Recipe -- No Added Sugar!
If you love apples, you’re going to love this homemade apple butter recipe. The flavor is fabulous, of course, but the fact that it’s a mix-and-forget it crockpot recipe makes it easy enough for even the busiest of people to tackle!
Easy & Delicious Caramelized Onion Jam with Balsamic Vinegar
This easy to make savory-sweet caramelized onion jam recipe is a great way to preserve onions. It’s divine on toasted baguettes with goat cheese. Or pizza. Serve it freshly made or stock the pantry with this savory jam for an easy but elegant appetizer. Perfect for when unexpected guests arrive!
Canning Dried Beans: Planning Ahead for Busy Weeknight Dinners
Having these ready to eat legumes in the pantry makes for fast and inexpensive weeknight dinners. This is a pressure canner recipe; it can't safely be canned in a simple water bath, so you'll need special equipment for this one.
How to Make Dried Orange Slices: 4 Methods
When it’s citrus season, set aside some fruit to make these easy dried orange slices for use in flavoring recipes — and crafting!
Beet Sauerkraut with Purple Cabbage - Attainable Sustainable
This beet sauerkraut is made with fresh beet roots and either red or green cabbage. It’s an easy recipe to ferment, and once you have some ready to go, an easy way to add a little flavorful crunch to meals. I like to serve it as a side, kind of a beet sauerkraut salad.
This Easy Kimchi Recipe is Great for First Time Fermenters
Kimchi is fermented cabbage, served as a side dish. It’s a staple in Korean cuisine. It’s made with green cabbage (Napa cabbage is common) as the base, seasoned with chilis, garlic, ginger, and scallions, and salted for preservation. Naturally fermented kimchi is full of friendly bacteria and enzymes. And it’s easy to make!
Homemade Blackberry Jam Recipe
This blackberry jam recipe (aka bramble jam!) is made with less sugar than most home canned jams and it’s utterly delicious! It's the perfect way to preserve one of summer's best flavors for the pantry.
Canning Dried Beans: Planning Ahead for Busy Weeknight Dinners
Canning dried beans at home makes them ready to use for fast weeknight dinners. It’s a budget-friendly way to stock the pantry!
Slow Cooker Apple Butter Recipe -- No Added Sugar!
Apple butter is a fruit spread that is made by cooking apples down until you achieve a concentrated, spiced spread perfect for topping toast or muffins. This water bath canning recipe assures that the jars of apple butter are shelf stable to enjoy all year long.
Canning Plums (Water Bath Method)
Canning plums at home allows you to adjust the sweetness of the end product. The sweetness of the syrup you choose will dictate how sweet the plums are when you open the jar.
Tomatillo Salsa Recipe for Canning
Tomatoes are the usual star of the show in salsa recipes, but lesser-known tomatillos offer a different flavor. You may have tried salsa verde (green salsa) at your favorite Mexican restaurant or from a jar, but why not try canning tomatillo salsa at home?
How to Ferment Carrots
These easy fermented carrots can be made with or without the spices. Once fermented, they last for months and can be used to stir into potato salad, soups, or served alongside your lunchtime sandwich. It's a great shortcut for adding some veggies to your meals.
Add This Sweet & Spicy Condiment to Menu!
Candied jalapeño peppers — sometimes referred to as “cowboy candy” — make a great pantry staple for adding flavor to a variety of recipes. This easy canning recipe calls for the water bath method, making it perfect for beginning canners.