These tips on how to eat pickled vegetables will help you feel tickled with delight every time you pick them to eat. From radish to beets to carrots to cauliflowers to pearl onions and other such vegetables can be pickled and eaten with diverse culinary touch.

Eating pickled vegetables- from the culinary roots

• If you have Mexican styled pickles on hand then you can eat pickled vegetables with tacos or even tortillas.

• Pickled vegetables can also be served as a condiment with sandwiches of all types but preferably the savory one such as BLT (bacon-lettuce-tomato) sandwiches, ham sandwiches, cheese and plain toast.

• If your pickled veggies come from the Italian Giardiniera then it best accompanies toasted Italian bread with shaved Parmesan cheese or baccala, spaghetti, pizza, beef sandwich  or salmon as the hot ‘n’ spicy flavor along with the cheese, simply adds to the zing of eating pickled vegetables.

• Veggies pickled the Chinese way can be served with rice, noodles, kimchi or even sushi. Th pickle-main dish combination can also be extended to Korean and Japanese culinary culture.

• Indians love to eat pickled vegetables with their favorite Indian bread(rotis), plain rice, rice mixed with curds, or rice pancakes.

• Having yoghurt as a dip to eat pickled vegetables is a great combination as you have a “palate” of flavors from the sweet to the savory, tang, hot; all playing “peek-a-boo” with the taste buds.

How to eat pickled vegetables in unique ways?

• The next time you prepare omelet for breakfast make it plain and side it up with pickled vegetables. This way you sauce up a plain nutritious dish with a flavorful side.

• You can eat pickled vegetables as appetizers as well with the crunch of baked chips (tapioca) to go with it.

• Next time you make a vegetable/meat salad, go less on the spice and make sure to include lettuce leaves because the sting, hot ‘n’ spicy flavor of pickles along with other salad components can be nicely wrapped-up in a lettuce leaf and crunched upon with much relish.

Once you set off to experiment and explore there is always more to discover and the culinary routes on how to eat pickled vegetables are simply testimony to that.

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