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Lemon Pickles |
Ingredients
Lemon | 8 |
Red Chilli | 6 |
Rock Salt | 5 tsp |
Asafoetida rocks | 2 cubes |
Fenugreek Seeds | 1 tsp |
Sesame Oil | 1/4 cup |
Turmeric Powder | 1 tsp |
Mustard Seeds | 1 tsp |
Curry Leaves | Handful |
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Lemon cubes |
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Asafoetida |
Method:
- Rinse the lemons and dry it on a newspaper so as to remove the wetness. Cut into cubes as shown. In a kadai, heat a tea spoon of sesame oil and roast the asafoetida rock.
- Once it starts to melt remove it and add the red chilli, mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds and roast till the mustard seeds pop out.
- Grind all the roasted ingredients to coarse powder. Keep them aside.
- Now heat the kadai with the remaining oil.
- Tamper mustard seeds and curry leaves.
- Add salt and turmeric powder.
- After two to three stirs add the lemon cubes and sprinkle the powder over it.
- Mix the contents thoroughly in kadai while on stove.
- Once mixed well, remove from stove, allow it to cool and transfer the contents to air tight vessel or jar.
- Allow two weeks of marination time for pickle before it could be used.
Note: The remains in pan can be mixed with hot rice and can be delighted as hot spice ladoos.
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Chilli, fenugreek, asafoetida and mustard seeds |
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Lemon Pickles on Hot pan |
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Lemon Pickles on Hot pan |
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Lemon Pickles packed in Jar |
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Lemon Pickles packed in Jar |
That is a bowl of yummy pickle.
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