(GAAJAR KA ACHAR)

Ingredients:
3 cups water
230gms carrots (scraped and cut into 2 inch long sticks)
11/2 tbsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/8 th tsp each ground mace, cloves and cardamom
2tsp salt
1/4 th cup shredded jaggery (gur)
1/3rd cup mustard oil

Method:
Boil the water in 2-litre saucepan. Add carrots and blanch for a minute.
Drain the water and then spread carrots on a clean cloth and sundry (or spread them on a towel lined cookie tray and air dry in an oven (200-degree Fahrenheit for an hour).
In a bowl mix the mace, cloves, cardamom, salt and jaggery.
Add the carrots and toss to mix. Transfer to a sterilized glass jar.
Pour the mustard oil into a small saucepan and place it over a moderate heat. As soon as oil begins to smoke remove it from the heat and cool it for 4 minutes, then pour it into the jar and cover it with a clean cloth.
Set the jar in sunlight for 13-14 days.  Shake the jar two or three times daily.

Ingredients:
1/2 kg Turnips (Shalgam)
1/2 kg Carrots (Gajar)
1/2 kg Cauliflower (Phool gobi)
1 cup Oil (Tel)
2 teaspoons Turmeric (Haldi)
2 teaspoons Red chili pepper (Lal Mirchi)
6 tsps ground Mustard seeds (Rai/Sarson)
Salt (Namak) to taste

Method:
Clean and cut vegetables into big pieces and boil for 5 minutes.
Put in a basket to drain well and then dry with a clean cloth.
Mix ground mustard seeds, turmeric, Red chili pepper , salt and oil together into the boiled vegetables.
Put in a clean jar and keep it in the sun for 4 days, shaking the pickle once or twice daily.
Serve after 6 days. This pickle can be kept for 2 weeks.

Ingredients:
2 cup rice
2 onion
5 carrot
2 tsp fried groundnuts
2 tsp oil
a small piece of cinnamon
1 tsp broken block gram
2 nos cloves
1 tsp mustard
1 tsp bengal gram
a few sprigs curry leaves
Salt as per taste

For Masala:
1 1/2 tsp coriander seeds
3/4 tsp cumin seeds
2 tsp grated coconut
4 nos red chillies

Method:
Heat the pan, pour the 1 tsp oil. Add red chillies, coriander seeds, cumin seeds and fry till it turns brown.
Add grated coconuts and remove from the heat. Grind it after it cools down.
Grind seperately, the fried groundnuts coarsely.
Cook the rice and let it cool.
Put the carrots in warm water. Grate it without peeling the skin.
Heat oil in a pan. Add cloves, cinnamon, mustard, broken block gram and Bengal gram. Fry them.
Add curry leaves and chopped onions. Once the onion is cooked, add the grated carrots. Fry till the carrots are cooked.
Add rice and fry in a low flame. Add salt and the ground masala powder. Mix it well with the rice.
Finally add groundnut powder and remove from the flame. Serve hot.