Pink Pickled Eggs

If you LOVE Quick Pickled Beets you’re not alone! slightly sweet and slightly sour they’re perfectly balanced with a hint of clove. They’re an old fashioned family favorite made quick and easy, and we can’t get enough of them! What happens when we run out? We add peeled hardboiled eggs and make Easy Pickled Eggs!

These pink pickled eggs are perfect alongside any meal, as a stand-alone snack, or added to your favorite dinner salad. They’re also fun for deviled eggs at a Barbie party!

Whatever You Do Save The Brine!

When you make beet quick pickles be sure you save that extra brine and store it in the fridge! You’ll always have a little extra because it’s not always exact because of how you cut or pack the vegetables. Save that extra brine to add to the leftover beet pickle brine for pink pickled eggs.

When you’re done with your pickled beets, cool hardboiled eggs, and add them to the leftover brine and pickled beet brine. Let them sit in the fridge for a few days, and BAM, the easiest pickled eggs without a lot of extra work.

What If You Don’t Have Pickled Beet Brine To Use?

Even if you don’t have pickled beets, you can make a quick pickle brine, cool it, and add peeled hardboiled eggs.

Do you want them to pink? Add the juice of canned beets as part of the water. And poof PINK pickleded eggs.

This Is An Imperfect Recipe

Essentially, this is a “make something from nothing” recipe, similar to the vegetable stock from veggie scraps recipe. We’re recycling leftover beet brine into pickled egg brine. Your jar will hold different from mine because I’m using an old store-bought jelly jar. The amount of pickle juice leftover will be different depending on how you serve the beets and how much juice is lost.

Bear with me, though, because this is how you get frugal—you make it work for you.

What You Need For Pickled Eggs

This list is a little specific, but nothing too hard to find. And remember, it’s an imperfect recipe where you recycle beet brine into pickled egg brine so as not to waste it so there’s no need to get anything specific.

• pickled beet brine OR make the easy recipe below in the recipe card
• any extra brine left from making pickled beets, you will probably have about a 1/2 cup left, sometimes more, sometimes left
• hardboiled eggs

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