Brighten any dish up with these sweet and sour, crunchy quick pickles. You can go for the classic onions and cucumbers or try carrots, fennel, even root vegetables like swede and celeriac.

Quick pickles (or fridge pickles) are vegetables pickled in vinegar, water, salt, sugar and spices, then stored in the fridge for summer scoffing, which is just about as long as they should last.

Before you start, sterilize your jar by putting it and the lid into a clean washing up bowl and covering with boiling water. Ask your grown-up helper to do this as the water will be hot, hot, hot.

Quick pickles (or fridge pickles) are vegetables pickled in vinegar, water, salt, sugar and spices, then stored in the fridge for summer scoffing, which is just about as long as they should last.

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