Recipe Description

Sweet and sour garlic pickle

Ingredients:-

• Garlic cloves – 3 cups
• Fresh ginger pieces, peeled – 2 no
• Brown mustard seeds – 1½ teaspoons
• Fenugreek seeds – 1 teaspoon
• Cumin seeds – 1 teaspoon
• Vegetable oil – 1½ cups
• Table salt – 1 teaspoon
• Tamarind pulp – ½ cup
• Red chile powder – 1½ teaspoons
• Grated jaggery – ½ cup

 

Method:-

1. Peel, wash and pat dry the garlic cloves. Grind half of them with ginger and crush the remaining.
2. Place a non stick medium sized pan on medium heat and let it heat for 2 minutes. Add 1 teaspoon of mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, cumin seeds and dry roast for 2 minutes or till fragrant. Cool and grind it to coarse powder in a blender.
3. Place a non stick deep pan on medium heat and pour in 1 cup oil. When small bubbles appear at the bottom of the pan, add the remaining mustards seeds and the crushed garlic. Reduce heat to low and cook for 3-4 minutes on low heat.
4. Increase heat to high, add salt, roasted and ground spices and tamarind pulp and cook for 5-6 minutes.
5. Add chile powder, ginger-garlic paste and jaggery and cook on medium heat for 1 minute or till the jaggery melts.
6. Add the remaining oil and cook till the pickle thickens a bit.
7. Cool and store in a sterilized bottle.