This roundup has been updated July 12, 2026
Are you looking for flavorful Ball canning recipes to help preserve your favorite seasonal produce? This collection includes homemade jams, pickles, relishes, salsa, fruit, vegetables and sauces that can help you stock your pantry with foods your family will enjoy throughout the year.
Whether you are working through a bumper crop of tomatoes, preserving freshly picked berries or turning cucumbers into crisp pickles, there is something here for every season. You will also find a few quick refrigerator-preserving recipes for days when you want homemade flavor without traditional canning.
Before getting started, remember that safe home canning depends on more than placing food in a Ball jar. Always use a current, scientifically tested recipe and follow its exact ingredients, jar size, processing method, processing time and altitude adjustments.
What Are Ball Canning Recipes?
Ball canning recipes are home-preserving recipes prepared in canning jars, including the familiar Ball Mason jars. Some are processed in a boiling-water canner, while low-acid foods require a pressure canner.
High-acid foods such as properly acidified pickles, jams, jellies and many fruit preserves can generally be processed in a boiling-water canner. Low-acid foods—including plain vegetables, meat, poultry and broth—must be processed in a pressure canner using tested instructions.
The Ball brand’s history dates back to the 1880s. The Ball Brothers began manufacturing fruit jars in Buffalo, New York, in 1884. Today, Ball Mason jars and home-canning products are part of the Newell Brands portfolio.
Why You’ll Love These Canning and Preserving Recipes
Enjoy seasonal produce longer: Preserve fruits and vegetables when they are fresh and abundant.
Fill your pantry with variety: Choose from jams, pickles, relishes, salsa, sauces and canned vegetables.
Make thoughtful homemade gifts: Jams, relishes and pickles can make lovely gifts when they are safely prepared and attractively labeled.
Reduce food waste: Preserving can help you use extra garden produce or farmers market purchases before they spoil.
Control the ingredients: Homemade preserving allows you to know what goes into your food, although tested recipes should not be altered in ways that could affect acidity or processing safety.
Build your canning confidence: Beginners can start with straightforward high-acid recipes before learning pressure-canning techniques.
Essential Home-Canning Safety Tips
Home canning is rewarding, but food safety must always come first.
- Use a current recipe from Ball, the USDA, the National Center for Home Food Preservation or a university extension program.
- Do not reduce the amount of vinegar, bottled lemon juice or citric acid specified in a tested recipe.
- Do not increase the amounts of onions, peppers, garlic or other low-acid ingredients in salsa and tomato recipes.
- Use the exact jar size and processing method listed in the recipe.
- Adjust processing times or pressure for your elevation.
- Process high-acid foods in a boiling-water canner when instructed.
- Process vegetables, meat, poultry, seafood, stock and other low-acid foods in a pressure canner.
- Do not use an electric multicooker or small pressure cooker unless the tested recipe and appliance instructions specifically establish that it is suitable for pressure canning.
- After processing, allow jars to cool undisturbed and check the seals according to the recipe instructions.
- Never taste food from a jar that is leaking, bulging, cracked, spurting liquid, foaming unexpectedly or showing signs of spoilage.
Always read the individual recipe completely before beginning. The jars, ingredients, processing method and processing time can vary significantly from one recipe to another.
What You’ll Find in This Collection
- Homemade jams, jellies and fruit preserves
- Pickles and relishes
- Salsa and tomato canning recipes
- Canned fruit and applesauce
- Vegetables and savory recipes, including more inspiration from my easy green beans recipe.
- Pressure-canning recipes
- Quick refrigerator-preserving recipes
Below, you’ll find fruit preserves and jams, crunchy pickles and relishes, flavorful salsa and sauces, pressure-canning recipes and a few quick refrigerator-preserving ideas. Always check the instructions for each recipe to determine whether it requires water-bath canning, pressure canning or refrigerator storage.
Ball Canning
Try our delicious Ball canning recipes to preserve your favorite flavors year-round. Easy, versatile, and perfect for every canning fan!
Easy homemade Slow Cooker Apple Butter is a simple spread made with slow cooked caramelized apples, sugar, cinnamon, spices, and vanilla.
Jams tend to be pretty sweet, even homemade ones, because extra sugar is necessary for the jam to properly gel. A strawberry rhubarb jam is more balanced thanks to the extra tart rhubarb.
Blackberry Lavender Preserves can be made with fresh or frozen berries. Lavender is the perfect accent flavor for luscious blackberries.
Marionberries are an exceptional cultivars of blackberries and makes the best jam for toast, bagels, and more! This recipe uses Ball RealFruit pectin to ensure a consistent result every time.
Ready in just about 30 minutes with 6 ingredients, this cranberry orange marmalade smells and tastes like the holidays!
This Simple Raspberry Jam is made with just four ingredients, is easy to make, and is a freezer jam that doesn't require any processing or canning.
Simple Water Bath Canning Peaches for Beginners, walks you through the entire process so you can confidently fill your pantry with peaches.
No Pectin - Canning Homemade Apple Pie Filling (Easy) is the perfect recipe for beginners! Follow the step by step process to water bath can.
This 5-ingredient Homemade Applesauce is full of traditional Fall flavors like cinnamon, cloves and apple cider. So simple to make!
On Friday mornings I like to go to the farmer's market in our small town. Some weeks there are a ton of vendors selling everything from fruits and vegetables to bath products and even organic
Some apples are perfect and need no extra flavor - consider saving those for fresh eating or pies. But when you inevitably end up with apples that are a little bland or their texture isn't great - give them a second chance in applesauce with brown sugar.
Apple butter is pretty easy to make. After cooking through a hundred pounds of apples to test & can apple butter recipes, I can guide you through the process.
Canning homemade grape juice (granny's easy way) really is the simplest and most delicious way to can grape juice.
These bread and butter pickles have a spicy kick making them a unique sandwich topper or snack right from the jar.
Sweet Pickle Relish is our favorite way to preserve our garden fresh cucumbers. An easy Ball Canning recipe that is the perfect addition to burgers, hot dogs and tuna salad.
Elevate your meals with pickled red bell peppers. Perfect for sandwiches, burgers, or as a tasty snack straight from the jar.
Canning green beans the old-fashioned way is the perfect method to preserve home-grown green beans without any added preservatives.
Zucchini Relish Canning Recipe is the perfect way to preserve zucchini, and it tastes great on burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches, and more.
Explore this pickled asparagus recipe for a crunchy and tangy treat that kids will love and perfect for any charcuterie board.
Canning Hot Sauce is easy with tomatoes, vinegar, and a few spices! Making your own hot sauce you control the heat and flavor!
Refrigerator Dill Pickles are the perfect way to use up your garden or farmers market cucumbers. You can cut them into chips or spears and add them to the vinegar mixture along with sugar, garlic and dill. Because these are made in the fridge they are ready to eat in 3 days! They are perfect for sandwiches, on burgers or served as a snack.
These Quick Pickled Red Onions come together in under 40 minutes! This recipe comes together with 4 simple ingredients and creates tangy, crispy red onions. They are perfect to add to tacos, rice bowls or any Southwestern dish.
Sweet and fruity, with a nuanced flavor from wine, ginger and vanilla, Canned Pears in White Wine is a fun way to have summer all year!
Ball’s zesty salsa recipe is perfect for preserving lots of peppers!
Tart, briny and flavorful, home-canned dill pickle slices will enhance your sandwiches, burgers and more all year. A perfect option for using up larger cucumbers.
Tomatillo salsa verde is one of my favorite ball canning recipes… it makes the perfect base for chicken chili!
This sweet salsa is made with honey and peaches… And it’s perfect as a dip over warm cream cheese!
This recipe is for homemade, gourmet cocktail cherries without the extra additives. They are really easy to make and can be stored in the fridge or canned for later use.
Learn how to can tomato sauce from summer’s harvest!
Can your own Chicken Broth to use in soups and stews. I use the Boiling Water Bath method with step by step instructions. Use a large Dutch oven for this method.
Can fresh carrots at home with this easy recipe that uses just a few ingredients! Use canned carrots all year long when you can then fresh!
Canning the best homemade pickles for beginners walks you through a step by step process for making and canning delicious dill pickles.
Step by step instructions on how to pressure can carrots! Easy, healthy, and delicious. Pressure Canning Carrots - Easy Method (How To)
Learn how to make homemade dill and garlic pickles with water bath canning. One special ingredient guarantees them to be crunchy!
Sweet, spicy candied jalapenos (cowboy candy) made easy with 1 pound of peppers. a quick, small batch recipe for snacking, gift giving or canning.
This is the only canned green beans recipe you need! Learn how to safely can fresh green beans at home.
Start Preserving Your Favorite Seasonal Flavors
These Ball canning recipes offer delicious ways to preserve everything from juicy berries and crisp cucumbers to tomatoes, carrots and homemade stock. Start with a recipe that matches your experience level, gather the proper equipment and read every instruction before beginning.
Most importantly, treat each recipe as its own set of safety instructions. Do not substitute ingredients, change jar sizes or switch between water-bath and pressure-canning methods unless the tested recipe specifically allows it.
Which recipe will you try first: homemade jam, crunchy pickles or garden-fresh salsa?
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