Summer Garden Vegetable Canning Recipes
These summer garden vegetable canning recipes are the recipes from my canning this summer.
I canned almost everything I could think of from my garden this summer, trying many new recipes. I planted tomatoes, several varieties of peppers, cucumbers, zucchini and tomatillos.
Here are some pictures of my garden from this summer. It grew like crazy, kind of like a jungle. I use black plastic in my garden to keep the weeds out and it works great. See my web article here.
I had amazing harvests everyday and canned almost all of it.
Summer Garden Canning Recipes
My garden canning recipes are all located on my website, but I thought it would be great to have them in one article for reference.
Cucumber Canning Recipes
I love pickles and canned many this summer! Here are my different pickle recipes.
Dill Pickle Recipe
This easy homemade dill pickle recipe for canning is a great way to preserve those fresh cucumbers and who doesn’t love homemade dill pickles! I don’t think you can have too many jars of dill pickles!
Spicy Pickle Recipe
This spicy garlic dill pickle recipe for canning shows you how to make these delicious pickles with different variations. You can use real hot peppers or pepper flakes and both turn out good and spicy.
Bread and Butter Pickle Recipe
A simple and very delicious bread and butter pickle recipe.
Cucumber Relish
This delicious and easy sweet cucumber relish recipe for canning is great for all those abundant fresh cucumbers. I use the cucumbers that I inadvertently grow too long and are too big for pickles. I am not sure how they hide so well, but they always do!
Enjoy this delicious homemade relish on hamburgers and hot dogs, plus the homemade sweet pickle relish is great to use in potato salad, tuna salad, chicken salad or egg salad!!
Zucchini Canning Recipes
Zucchini Pickles
This recipe for canning dill zucchini pickles is a great way to preserve that abundance of zucchini that comes all at the same time from your garden! It never fails and you can only make so much zucchini bread. The zucchini pickles taste a lot like regular cucumber pickles and are delicious!
Zucchini Relish
This is such a delicious recipe! I was so surprised the first time I made it and how delicious it was. It is also great for gifts. Who would not love a jar of homemade zucchini relish made from fresh zucchini from your garden. It is great for hot dogs and hamburgers of course, but also for potato salad, tuna salad, chicken salad and egg salad. The sweet zucchini relish recipe is also yummy added to different pasta dishes.
Tomato Canning Recipes
Roasted Tomato Salsa
This is the best homemade salsa recipe with roasted tomatoes and peppers! I love making salsa. It is the first recipe I ever canned and I also love eating the salsa! Who does not love homemade salsa? It is great to take to get-togethers and to also give as gifts.
During tomato season the tomato plants produce beautiful red juicy tomatoes that are great for making salsa. Combine with all the fresh peppers from your garden, like poblano peppers and anaheim peppers!
This recipe that is made with roasting the tomatoes and peppers, is especially good. The roasting of the tomatoes and peppers gives the salsa a better flavor, plus I find that roasting the tomatoes is a good way to remove the moisture and make the salsa thicker.
Homemade Pizza Sauce
This homemade pizza sauce canning recipe from fresh tomatoes is so easy and delicious. I started making my own homemade pizzas over the winter and had to use store-bought pizza sauce. I decided the next tomato canning season, I was going to make my own!
The tomato harvest from my tomato plants has been huge this year and it is great to be able to make different recipes with the fresh tomatoes.
This recipe is the best homemade pizza sauce for canning you’ll ever need! It is delicious, full of flavor, and super easy to make.
Canning your own pizza sauce recipe is much more healthy and affordable than buying from a grocery store, and by canning several pints at a time, you can stock up and have homemade pizza anytime.
Homemade Roasted Tomato Spaghetti Sauce
This homemade roasted tomato spaghetti sauce canning recipe is so delicious and a great recipe to make flavorful sauce that can be ready on your shelves for any pasta dish!
You’ll love the rich, savory sauce made from simple ingredients. It is so rewarding to make your own delicious spaghetti sauce from your fresh homegrown tomatoes!
Roasted Tomato Sauce
This roasted tomato sauce recipe is the best way to make wonderful, flavorful tomato sauce that can be used all winter long, in chili, vegetable soup, pasta sauce and so many other recipes.
Canning your own tomato sauce is much more healthy and affordable than store-bought, and by canning several pints at a time, you can stock your food pantry and have it ready anytime
You’ll love the rich, savory sauce made from simple ingredients. It is so rewarding to make your own delicious tomato sauce from your fresh homegrown tomatoes! The juicy ripe tomatoes are at their peak of flavor! And roasting them seems to concentrate their sweetness and intensify their flavors even more.
Homemade Rotel – Tomatoes and Green Chilies
Homemade Rotel made with tomatoes and green chilies is a great and easy tomato canning recipe. Rotel is a great pantry staple for spicing up Mexican recipes. It is great to be able to make your own tomatoes and green chilies to suit your taste and to preserve them for use all winter long.
Rotel is so convenient for adding flavor to dishes like tacos, casseroles, soups, or making salsas or dips. You can make your Rotel mild or spicy, depending on your personal preference.
Canning your own rotel from homegrown tomatoes and peppers is much more healthy and affordable than the canned version from the grocery store, and by canning several pints at a time, you can stock your food pantry and have a can of Rotel tomatoes available any time! My homemade version of diced tomatoes and green chilis does not have preservatives and of course, homegrown and homemade always tastes better.
Homemade BBQ Sauce
This homemade BBQ sauce recipe for canning is easy and delicious. It is made from fresh tomatoes and with no sugar! The recipe is just simple ingredients and can be made very quickly. Such a wonderful way to use those fresh tomatoes from your garden and make a wonderful BBQ sauce that can be used for so many things, and pairs perfectly with grilled meats like ribs, chicken and pork.
Tomato Juice Canning Recipe
This recipe on how to can tomato juice is such a simple but very useful canning recipe.
Canning your own tomato juice is much more healthy and affordable than store-bought, and by canning several pints or quarts at a time, you can stock your food pantry. Tomato juice can be used in so many recipes and is also a great healthy drink.
How to Can Diced Tomatoes
The recipe on how to can diced tomatoes is such a simple but very useful canning recipe.
Canning your own diced tomatoes is much more healthy and affordable than store-bought, and by canning several pints at a time, you can stock your food pantry. Diced tomatoes can be used in so many recipes and dishes.
My homemade version of diced tomatoes does not have preservatives and of course, homegrown and homemade always tastes better.
Black Bean and Corn Salsa
This fresh black bean and corn salsa canning recipe is a new favorite way for me to can salsa. It is another healthy salsa recipe that I plan to make often! It can be a perfect side dish to any Mexican meal and tastes great on crunchy tortilla chips.
Green Tomato Canning Recipes
Green Tomatoes for Frying
This easy recipe for canning green tomatoes for frying is a wonderful way to preserve those end of season unripe green tomatoes to enjoy as fried green tomatoes during the winter time!
Before the first killing frost, is a good time to save all those green tomatoes that did not have time to get ripe, or you can just pick green tomatoes anytime for frying up or for canning for later use!
Green Tomato Enchilada Sauce Canning Recipe
This green tomato enchilada sauce canning recipe is very easy to make and turns out delicious!
Green enchilada sauce is often made with tomatillos, (see my tomatillo green enchilada sauce recipe) but can also be made from green tomatoes. A great recipe to make if you have an abundance of green tomatoes.
This easy green enchilada sauce recipe is tangy and delicious, much better and healthier than store-bought!
Green Tomato Salsa Canning Recipe
This is a different take on regular salsa but it tastes wonderful. A great recipe to make if you have an abundance of green tomatoes.
This easy green tomato salsa recipe is tangy, with slight spice, much better and healthier than store-bought!
This green tomato salsa recipe is an easy salsa recipe and is delicious! I actually find that I like it better than regular tomato salsa, I can eat it right out of the jar!
Green Tomato Relish Canning Recipe
This green tomato relish is a delicious, tangy mix of green tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, and spices.
This is such a delicious recipe! I was so surprised the first time I made it and how delicious it was. It is also great for gifts. Who would not love a jar of homemade green tomato relish made from fresh tomatoes from your garden?
It is great for hot dogs and hamburgers, but also for potato salad, tuna salad, chicken salad and egg salad. The sweet green tomato relish recipe is also yummy when added to different pasta dishes.
Green Tomato BBQ Sauce Canning Recipe
This homemade green tomato BBQ sauce recipe for canning is easy and delicious. It is made from fresh green tomatoes and with no sugar! The recipe is just simple ingredients and can be made very quickly.
Such a wonderful way to use up those green tomatoes from your garden and make a wonderful BBQ sauce that can be used for so many things. It pairs perfectly with grilled meats like ribs, chicken and pork.
This tangy BBQ sauce is made with honey and little bit of heat which gives it an interesting flavor that can be made more spicy or less spicy. This sauce is so delicious I can almost just eat it right out of the jar!
Delicious Green Tomato Dill Pickle Recipe
This recipe for canning dill green tomato pickles is a great way to preserve that abundance of green tomatoes that may be left in your garden at the end of the growing season.
The green tomato pickles taste a lot like regular cucumber pickles and are delicious!
Enjoy these delicious green tomato dill pickles. They are just as good as cucumber pickles in my opinion. They did not turn out as crisp as cucumber pickles, but I might try adding pickle crisp next time.
I was grateful for the green tomato pickles, because this is the first year in a long time, I did not can regular pickles.
Cherry Tomato Canning Recipes
Cherry Tomato Salsa
This cherry tomato salsa is an easy salsa recipe and makes a yummy salsa! . It has simple ingredients, fresh flavor and is easy to make. It is perfect to go with your favorite Mexican foods and the homemade salsa tastes great on your favorite tortilla chips. This best salsa recipe can also be made with regular tomatoes.
Pickled Cherry Tomatoes
This easy recipe for pickled cherry tomatoes for canning is a great way to preserve those cherry tomatoes that grow in abundance if you even have one cherry tomato plant. Then you can enjoy their fresh flavor during the long winter months. Pickling is a great way to preserve that bumper crop of beautiful cherry tomatoes and have them to add to salad, salad dressings, pasta, or a charcuterie board.
In order to extend the life of these delightful tomatoes, it is fun to find ways to preserve cherry tomatoes. They can be stored long-term by pickling in mason jars. For this recipe, cherry tomatoes are stored in a pickling liquid. And cherry tomatoes look so pretty when preserved in jars.
Pickled Green Cherry Tomatoes
This easy recipe for pickled green cherry tomatoes is a great way to use those end of the season cherry tomatoes from your garden that don’t have time to ripen before the first frost.
You can enjoy their fresh flavor during the long winter months. Pickling is a great way to preserve the leftover unripe cherry tomatoes and have them to add to salad, sandwich, pasta, or charcuterie boards.
They can be stored long-term by pickling in mason jars. For this canning recipe, the green cherry tomatoes are stored in a pickling liquid. The tiny green tomatoes look so pretty when preserved in jars.
Canning Peppers
Green Chili Peppers
This recipe for how to can green chili peppers is a great way to preserve any kind of pepper that you have in the garden. It is an easy recipe and a great way to have your own canned peppers ready to use from the shelf any time!
Pickled Mild or Hot Peppers
This easy recipe for pickled sweet or hot peppers for canning is a great recipe with very few ingredients and like it says, can be used to pickle sweet or hot peppers, or use a variety of peppers!
Enjoy the flavorful pickled peppers all winter long with this pickled pepper simple recipe. It is delicious with any kind of pepper, including jalapeno peppers. Pickled banana peppers are great too! Pickled peppers are awesome in so many recipes, including scrambled eggs, tacos, potato salad, pizza, sandwiched, everything. Plus the jars of colorful peppers will make beautiful Christmas gifts!
Tomatillo Canning Recipe
Cilantro Lime Tomatillo Enchilada Sauce Recipe for Canning
This best green enchilada sauce recipe with roasted tomatillos and peppers is an easy canning recipe and is delicious! It has simple ingredients. It is perfect o go with your favorite Mexican dishes and to use in your favorite enchilada recipe like chicken enchiladas! Who doesn’t love homemade enchiladas! And with your own homemade green enchilada sauce recipe it makes them even more delicious!
Radish Canning Recipe
Pickled Radish Recipe
This easy pickled radishes recipe is such a great way to use extra radishes from your garden! They are great on hot dogs and hamburgers and with tacos and nachos! They go with any meat, like pulled pork and roast beef. They are also a delicious snack or side dish.
Green Bean Canning Recipes
Green beans are one of the best things to come out of the garden in the summer. You can’t beat fresh green beans! Especially cooked in a pot with some ham or bacon and potatoes! Canning your fresh green beans to have all winter long is one of the best things about canning. So much better than canned green beans from the grocery store and much healthier. You know exactly what is going into your jar of green beans that you feed your family.
If you don’t have a garden you can always buy a bunch of fresh green beans from the grocery store and farmer’s market and can them and reap the same benefits!
These 4 canning recipes are different ways that you can can green beans and are all easy and delicious: green beans, green beans and potatoes, green beans, ham and potatoes, and green beans, bacon and potatoes.
Peach Canning Recipes
Peaches are not actually grown in my garden, but I do have peach trees which produced the peaches I used in these recipes.
Peach Pepper Jelly
This easy and delicious peach pepper jelly recipe is a sweet, spicy peach flavored jelly that is so wonderful to serve at any get-together or just to eat alone with cream cheese and crackers! It can also be used as a delicious glaze on different meats, such as chicken and pork chops.
Peach Jalapeno Bourbon BBQ Sauce
This recipe for peach jalapeno bourbon BBQ sauce recipe for canning is a delicious and wonderful twist on traditional barbecue sauce. The ripe peaches give it a sweet flavor and combined with tangy flavor of the peppers make it a taste out of this world. Plus adding the bourbon gives it a smooth delicious flavor that pairs perfectly with grilled meats like ribs, chicken and pork.
Making your own homemade barbecue sauces is a great experience and fun to experiment with different flavors. This sweet BBQ sauce has an interesting different flavor that can be made more spicy or less spicy.
Sweet and Spicy Peach Salsa
This easy recipe for canning sweet and spicy peach salsa is delicious and great to serve with chips with friends or just snacking by yourself. It is yummy! The sweet heat from the combination of peaches with salsa is so delicious, it is hard to stop eating it!
More Great Canning Recipes and Simple Homestead Information
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