Sugar Free Pickle Relish Food

SPLENDA/SUCRALOSE SWEET PICKLE RELISH

Steps:

• Finely dice unpeeled cucumbers, pared peppers and pared onions and place all in large bowl.
• Sprinkle the salt over the vegetables.
• Cover with cold water and let stand for 2 hours.
• Drain vegetables well.
• In a large pot, combine Splenda, vinegar and pickling spices.
• Bring to a boil.
• Add vegetables to the pot, and adding, if necessary, just enough water to cover vegetables.
• Bring back to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Put relish into jars using a slotted spoon adding as much or as little of the brine as you like remembering that you need to leave 1/4" to 1/2" head space.
• Process in a hot water bath.

SUGAR FREE PICKLE RELISH

Steps:

• Drain liquid from pickles into a non reactive pan.
• Throw in the onion, splenda, celery seed and mustard seed.
• Bring to a simmer for about 20 to 30 minutes.
• While that is simmering chop the pickles either by hand or in the food processor to the consistancy you like your relish to be, fine or coarse.
• Add the 2 tablespoons of cider vinegar to the chopped pickles.
• Put the chopped up pickles back in the jar and pour the brine back over the whole thing.
• Store in the fridge and use like store bought relish.

SWEET PICKLE RELISH

Steps:

• To deseed cucumbers, I cut them in half lengthwise and scoop out the seeds with my finger.
• I chop the unpeeled cucumbers as well as the other vegetables with a Pampered Chef chopper.
• Put all the vegetables in a large bowl.
• Sprinkle the salt over the chopped vegetables.
• Cover with cold water and let stand for 2 hours.
• Drain vegetables well, then press out as much liquid as possible.
• In a large pot, combine sugar, vinegar and seeds.
• Bring to a boil.
• Add vegetables.
• Bring back to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Using a slotted spoon, put into pint jars according to standard canning procedures.
• (Note: Although some of the brine needs to go in the jars, I use a slotted spoon to keep it from being too soupy.).
• Process in a hot water bath according to your altitude (10 minutes for up 50 1000 ft.).