What can I say about this recipe that will make you try it? It’s really good? It’s a fabulous recipe to use up that extra pickle brine? How do these sound? Pickle brine should totally be used in more recipes. It’s a prebuilt salty vessel that zings up almost all recipes.

Pickle salsa is a delicious combination of my two favorite snacks. Pickles and salsa. Yeah.. Blend together tomatoes, onion, jalapeno, cilantro, and lime juice just don’t forget the pickles. I used Claussen pickles because they are my favorite pickles and I was not disappointed.

My number one rule with salsa is to let the food processor do the work. This is why you need a food processor. To make delicious snacks like these. Add all the ingredients to the machine and let it do the work. Taste for seasoning and pack in the pickle jar for extra flavor.

My secret that I learned for restaurant-quality salsa is all in a can of diced tomatoes. The water it’s packed in makes for a delicious brine already and that’s where the pickle brine will amplify. Salsa is essentially a tomato water soup with chopped up vegetables, so of course it needs that pickle brine.

Like all salsa and all pickles, thee flavor develops best overnight in that pickle-y sort of way. You will be shocked at how much this still tastes like salsa, but the pickle flavor comes in at the end which is what makes this dip so addicting. I could even see this becoming a pickle dip mixed with some cream cheese.

I bring this stuff EVERYWHERE. To my barber when I get haircut, to my friend’s house when we have a game night, and even wrap this up for family and friends as a Christmas present. Where will you bring your pickle salsa?