7 Homemade Flavored Vinegar Recipes

Making your own flavored vinegar is a simple way to preserve the flavors of fresh herbs and fruit from the garden.

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These homemade vinegars can be used in salad dressings, marinades, sauces, and more—and they make beautiful gifts from the kitchen.

If you’re practicing Kitchen Garden Living, flavored vinegar is also a great way to turn an abundance of fresh herbs into something you’ll enjoy long after the growing season.

Here are some of my favorite homemade flavored vinegar recipes to try.

Lemon Rosemary Vinegar

Make this bright and flavorful Lemon Rosemary Vinegar for your homemade pantry. It's wonderful for salad dressings, marinades, roasted vegetables, and more. Add it to your collection alongside Basil Vinegar, Rosemary Olive Oil, Rosemary Vinegar, and Tarragon Vinegar.

Lemon Rosemary Vinegar combines fresh rosemary with bright lemon flavor.

It’s a wonderful choice for homemade vinaigrettes and marinades and makes a beautiful addition to a collection of homemade pantry gifts.

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Basil Vinegar

Have extra basil from the garden? Make a beautiful bottle of basil vinegar! It's simple to prepare, useful in the kitchen, and makes a lovely homemade gift. Add it to your homemade pantry and embrace simple homemade living with easy garden-to-kitchen projects perfect for gift giving.

Fresh basil makes a wonderfully fragrant vinegar that’s perfect for summer salads and homemade dressings. This is an easy way to use an abundance of basil from the garden.

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Rosemary Vinegar

This easy rosemary vinegar adds wonderful savory herb flavor to homemade salad dressings, marinades, sauces, roasted vegetables, and more. Add it to your homemade pantry or bottle it up as a lovely holiday gift idea made from your garden harvest.

Rosemary Vinegar is a simple herb-infused vinegar with plenty of savory flavor. Use it in salad dressings, marinades, sauces, and roasted vegetable dishes.

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Tarragon Vinegar

Make this simple homemade tarragon vinegar with fresh herbs and vinegar for a flavorful addition to your homemade pantry. It also makes a thoughtful holiday gift idea for gardeners, cooks, and anyone who loves homemade food.

Tarragon has a distinctive flavor that makes a particularly delicious infused vinegar. Tarragon Vinegar is especially good in homemade vinaigrettes and is a great way to preserve fresh tarragon from the garden.

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Thyme Vinegar

Have extra fresh thyme from your garden? Turn it into flavorful homemade Thyme Vinegar! This easy recipe is a wonderful gift from the kitchen and a practical way to preserve garden herbs. It's part of my collection of homemade flavored vinegars, including Lemon Rosemary, Basil, Rosemary, and Tarragon Vinegar.

If you have extra thyme growing in your garden, turn it into Homemade Thyme Vinegar. It’s delicious in salad dressings, marinades, potato dishes, and sauces.

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Dill Vinegar

Turn fresh dill into a beautiful homemade Dill Vinegar! This simple infused vinegar is delicious in salads, potato dishes, sauces, and homemade dressings. Bottle it up for a pretty gift from the kitchen or add it to your pantry as part of your Kitchen Garden Living. Explore my other homemade vinegars: Lemon Rosemary, Basil, Rosemary, Tarragon, and Thyme.

Dill Vinegar has a fresh, savory flavor that pairs beautifully with potato salad, cucumber salad, coleslaw, and homemade vinaigrettes. It’s another simple way to use a plentiful garden herb.

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Chive Vinegar

Have an abundance of fresh chives? Learn how to make Chive Vinegar and turn your garden harvest into a useful homemade pantry staple. It's simple to make and perfect for salads, sauces, and dressings. Add a bottle to your gifts from the kitchen or explore more homemade flavored vinegars like Basil, Rosemary, Tarragon, Thyme, Dill, and Raspberry.

If you have an abundance of fresh chives growing in your garden, this Chive Vinegar is a simple and flavorful way to use them.

Chive vinegar has a mild onion flavor that makes it delicious in homemade salad dressings, potato salad, marinades, and vinaigrettes.

It’s also a pretty addition to your pantry and makes a lovely gift from the kitchen.

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Make Your Own Flavored Vinegar Collection

Once you start making flavored vinegar, you’ll probably find yourself looking around the garden wondering what else you can infuse!

Herbs like rosemary, basil, thyme, dill, and tarragon are all wonderful choices, while fruit like raspberries gives you an entirely different flavor profile.

And don’t forget about gifting. Put your finished vinegar into a pretty glass bottle, add a simple label, and tie it with ribbon or twine.

A collection of homemade vinegars makes a thoughtful gift from the kitchen for someone who loves to cook.

These recipes are also a natural fit for Kitchen Garden Living—using what you grow, preserving it, and bringing it back into your kitchen in a useful way.

Which flavored vinegar will you try first?

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