Posts Tagged ‘achar’

Spicy Indian Onion Pickle Recipe

07.12.10

Ingredients:

1/2 Kg very small onions (Pyaj)
2 cups white Vinegar (Sirka)
1 spoon Cinnamon (Dalchini)
4 Cloves (Lavang)
16 Peppercorns
16 green chillies, slit in the middle
1/3 cup Salt (Namak)

Method:

Peel the onions, rub salt on them and keep for one day.
Drain the salt water.
Boil the vinegar with spices and in it cook onions and green chili to boiling.
Cool and put in ajar; cork it tightly. Keep for 4 days before using.

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South Indian Lemon Pickle Recipe

06.24.10

Ingredients:
750 grams Lemons (Nimbu)
3/4 cup Salt (Namak)
1 cup Mustard Oil (Sarson Ka Tel)
1/2 teaspoon asafoetida
3 teaspoons Mustard seeds (Rai/Sarson)
3/4 cup Lemon (Nimbu) juice
2 teaspoons Red chili pepper (Lal Mirchi)
3 teaspoons fenugreek seeds, powdered
1/2 cup Sugar (Cheeni)

Method:

Cut the lemons into eight pieces each, rub salt and keep for one week in a jar. Shake daily.
Heat the oil in a pan, remove from the fire, cool a little, add crushed asafoetida and mustard seeds and cover the pan.
Cool a little, mix lemon pieces, lemon juice, fenugreek powder, chili powder and sugar.
Keep for one week before serving.

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Mango Pickle Recipe

05.14.10

Ingredients:

1/2 kg raw mango slices without skin
3 teaspoons fenugreek
1 1/2 teaspoons Turmeric (Haldi)
1 1/2 teaspoons Red chili pepper (Lal Mirchi)
1/2 cup Mustard Oil (Sarson Ka Tel)
1/2 cup Salt (Namak)
4 teaspoons aniseeds
1 teaspoon Onions seeds (Kalonji)
3 teaspoons glacial acetic acid

Method:
Rub salt on mango slices and keep for 8 hours.
The mango slices will leave some water.
Remove the slices from the mango water and in it mix glacial acetic acid.
Rub the rest of the ingredients on the mango slices and pour the mango water mixed with acetic acid over it. Add the oil.
Keep for one week and shake it every other day.

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