Pickleback Dressing

Slaw is a great grilling co-anchor: cold, raw cabbage with a creamy, crunch that marries to hot, succulent grilled food. Just a few ingredients to toss and you’re in coleslaw heaven.

What’s a Pickleback? It’s a new cocktail combo: a shot of whiskey washed down with a shot of pickle juice.

Let’s chase our shredded cabbage with this quick Pickleback Dressing.* Lacto-fermented pickle juice is a concentrated probiotic that is delicious with or without alcohol. Some sport teams are replacing their electrolytic power sport drinks with pickle juice. No kidding! Many a farmer has found relief from long hours in the sunny fields with a chug of pickle juice. It has all the electrolytes and nutrients to quickly refresh and restore lost salt and water lost through sweating.

Need pickle juice? We have our no-knife recipe, Easy-Peasy Garlicky-Dill Pickles, that takes only minutes to prepare for fermentation in the Perfect Pickler®. Then you will also have dills to dress your hot dogs and brine to make coleslaw. One good turn deserves another.

For an even quicker salad solution choose bagged coleslaw.

Ingredients
• ½ cup mayonnaise
• 3 TBS. pickle juice
• 1 TBS. Dijon mustard
• 1 TBS. raw cider vinegar
• Hot sauce to taste
• Salt & Pepper to taste

Instructions
1. Toss the dressing with about 6 cups coleslaw mix until well coated. 
2. Allow to mellow in the fridge for an hour or more.

*The original recipe, Sam Sifton, NYTimes Cook section

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