Pickle Juice Recipe For the Keto Flu | Why is Everyone Drinking it?
/Low Carb Keto Friendly Recipe
Everyone from dancers to soccer players to swimmers use pickle juice but you don’t have to be an athlete to benefit for a shot of pickle juice!
Kind of like Beattle Juice only Pickle Juice. If you have done any kind of research into a low carb keto diet you have probably seen posts about pickles and drinking pickle juice.
The reason everyone is talking about pickles and pickle juice is that it's an excellent way to prevent you from getting headaches, muscle cramps and getting dehydrated when you are on a low carb- keto diet especially when you are first starting out aka the keto flu.
You may have heard of the keto flu. Pickle juice does wonders to help you feel better if you are experience symptoms of the keto flu by helping to balance your electrolytes. Even before I started my low carb way of eating a found out that I could stop my migraines in their tracks with some pickle juice.
Some people even swear by pickle juice as a great hangover cure!
Pickle juice is a great sugar free electrolyte drink. And an added benefit is that it has no carbs! And BTW pickle juice is not juicing pickles. It’s the juice that is used to brine cucumbers to create a pickle. We are just using it without the cucumbers when we make it for a drink.
WHY PICKLES AND HOW DOES THE PICKLE JUICE WORK?
The pickle juice just happens to be the perfect mix of salt, water, and vinegar which renew the electrolytes in your body. It also helps you stay hydrated too. Did you know that athletes drink pickle juice too? Many athletes use it to help with recovery after playing sports. It a much better drink than those awful sticky sugar-filled sports recovery drinks.
You can even find pickle juice in popsicle form or in a can but making your own tastes so much better and cost-effective too. Plus you can control the ingredients to make it more healthy.
After draining several bottles of pickles of their juice I decided to make my own pickle juice. I already make pickles, I come from pioneer stock and we pickle everything! Here is our tried and true delicious pickle brine recipe.
PICKLE JUICE Recipe (SANS CUCUMBERS)
2 one-quart canning jars
2 cups apple cider vinegar (you can substitute white vinegar if you would like to)
2 cups of white vinegar
4 cups of water
2 tablespoons Himalayan pink salt or Redmonds Real Salt
8 garlic cloves
4 teaspoons dill
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
Wash and dry canning jars. In a large pot combine water, vinegar, and salt. Bring to a simmer then add garlic cloves, dill, and red pepper flakes. Simmer for 5 minutes for flavors to blend. Pour into quart jars.
Add some to your sports bottle to take with you on the go or when you go to workout at the gym. I prefer a glass sports bottle that I use just for my pickle juice. Here are some on Amazon that are great - Glass Sports Bottles.
That's it! Peasy Peasy! Store in the fridge.
If you have any questions please let me know. I’m happy to help! Thanks!
- 2 quart canning jars
- 2 cups apple cider vinegar
- 2 cups white vinegar
- 4 cups water
- 2 tablespoons Himalayan pink salt
- 8 garlic cloves
- 4 teaspoons dill
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
