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Dill Pickle Soup in a small white round baking dish, dill pickles around a white plate — Dill Pickle Soup

I have been wanting to make dill pickle soup for as long as I can remember, since my mom mentioned to me in passing that she loved a certain dill pickle soup from a diner in central Alberta. This desire was rekindled when I saw a picture from a fellow Albertan food writer about her dill pickle soup this summer.

I was intrigued by people's response to it. Loved it? Favorite soup? Gross?

Say what?

Yes indeed, dill pickle soup elicits a love or hate reaction from people, there is no in-between.

When Mike ate this – with his nose wrinkled up in disgust at the mere thought of dill pickle soup- he exclaimed after a few bites"This is just like eating dill pickle chips! Oh my God, this is amazing!".

So if you are a lover of dill pickle chips, this soup is absolutely for you. If you love pickles, you may not love it like Mike did but I think that you should definitely try this soup. Fair warning, this may not be kid friendly.My daughter wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole and my son told me "It's good in small amounts, but then it was overpowering."

He's absolutely right; this isn't something you eat to fill up. You are going to need biscuits or bread with it as it's a very potent soup. Delicious, but potent.

top down shot of Dill Pickle Soup in a small white round baking dish with some dill pickles around a white plate

I riffed on the Western Producer recipe that was posted this summer and made a few tweaks. I didn't use flour, I didn't use celery (it's my least favorite item in soups) and I've upped the pickles and juice for a better flavor. Cream always makes a soup better, you use less and it gives the soup a much richer flavor.

top down shot of Dill Pickle Soup in a small white round baking dish with some dill pickles around a white plate ready to be enjoy!

The most important thing with this soup is to get the vegetables chopped as small as possible. It's not supposed to be a chunky soup and even though chunky soups are my absolute favorite, this is definitely not the soup for it. It needs to be creamy with small bits of pickles and vegetables.

Dill Pickle Soup in a small white round baking dish with some dill pickles around a white plate ready to be enjoy!

So about that celery; I honestly don't think that flavorwise it needs to be there. Texture-wise I'm completely grossed out even thinking about it but if you are a celery lover and you feel that this soup needs it, then go for it. If I really thought it needed the flavor I would have used some celery seed but in all honesty this was perfect for us. I won't tweak this recipe, change any amounts ever and that is a rare thing for me to say.

You can make a few changes, like adding cornstarch to thicken at the end (try not to use flour, am I the only one who can taste it in soups sometimes?) and adding more cream if the soup is a little too strong for you. Taste test and add what you need.

I highly suggest pureeing the soup at the end instead of using thickeners and you have a lovely gluten free soup (make sure that your pickles and vegetable broth are gluten free). If you chop your vegetables small enough those potatoes are going to fall apart and thicken the soup for you and that's the best way flavor-wise.

So.

Who's on board with trying this soup? Yay or nay? Will you trust me enough to give it a whirl?

Love,

Karlynn

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▢ 6 cups strong vegetable broth
▢ 1/2 white onion
▢ 12 baby carrots
▢ 2 peeled medium to large russet potatoes cut into chunks
▢ 2 tablespoons dried dill
▢ 1 cup chopped pickles
▢ 1 cup pickle juice
▢ 1 cup half and half warmed

Pour the vegetable broth into a crockpot and set on low.
Take the potatoes, carrots and onion and using a food processor, grind until the vegetables are in small chunks. Alternatively, chop up your vegetables as small as you can. This soup should be a smooth soup, not chunky.
Place into the crockpot and add the dill.
Cook on low for 6-8 hours until the vegetables are tender and falling apart.
Around half an hour before serving, add in the pickle and the pickle juice. MAKE SURE that your vegetables are cooked or the acid can stop the cooking process (just like it does in pickling!) and you will have hard vegetables. Add in the pickle juice slowly and TO TASTE. You can have different strengths of pickle juice! Add it in until you are happy with the taste.
Take a hand blender if you have one and blend about ⅓ of the soup before serving. This thickens the soup without flour and I think this adds to the taste; there's no flour taste in the soup, just pure pickled goodness. I try to avoid flour whenever I can in soups.
Stir in the WARM half and half cream a few minutes before serving.
Serve and enjoy!

The cream being warmed helps to prevent curdling of the soup.

Calories: 147 kcal , Carbohydrates: 24 g , Protein: 3 g , Fat: 4 g , Saturated Fat: 2 g , Cholesterol: 14 mg , Sodium: 1778 mg , Potassium: 465 mg , Fiber: 2 g , Sugar: 4 g , Vitamin A: 3505 IU , Vitamin C: 6.4 mg , Calcium: 89 mg , Iron: 1.4 mg

All calories and info are based on a third party calculator and are only an estimate. Actual nutritional info will vary with brands used, your measuring methods, portion sizes and more.

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Karlynn Johnston

I'm a busy mom of two, wife & cookbook author who loves creating fast, fresh meals for my little family on the Canadian prairies. Karlynn Facts: I'm allergic to broccoli. I've never met a cocktail that I didn't like. I would rather burn down my house than clean it. Most of all, I love helping YOU get dinner ready because there's nothing more important than connecting with our loved ones around the dinner table!

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