Friday, October 19, 2007

HOT AND SWEET LIME PICKLE........

This is what was inside the bottle...
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most of you or should i say all of you were right...
In some little way offcourse...





I KNOW ITS EASY TO GUESS , BUT NEVER THE LESS ITS FUN SO THE QUESTION...

GUESS WHAT I HAVE MADE...(IF YOU GIVE THE INGREDIENTS THE BETTER)
My mother in law was in Goa and she had this sweet and hot lime pickle at her sister in laws place i.e my husbands uncle i.e mama's place , she liked it a lot and told me about it, I called
up mami and got the recipe.
Its extremely simple but you have to have patience till you eat it as it tastes good only after a period of 1 month.
chopp 6 or 200 gms lemon into rough pieces as seen in the picture
take care to discard the seeds.
grate 250 gms jaggery
take a pan and heat a little or 2 tsp ghee
add the grated jaggery and add 1-2 tsp chilli powder , and asoefotida to it
stir and let it thicken for some time.
add a little water and then add the chopped lemon.
add a little salt and let it simmer for sometime , stir once or twice
dont let the jaggery mixture stick or get too thick
you can add a tsp of pickle masala to it too , for some variation in taste.
remove and cool.
You will find that it tastes a bit sour because of the taste of the lemon rind has come into the pickle. refrigerate for about a month before you eat it.(These were the instructions that i got, its not yet one month and i havent tasted the aftertaste about which i will definetly let you know)
This is my first experiment at making a hot and sweet lemon pickle so time will tell if i will be repeating the act.
{ a tip -- soak the lemon before cutting into a bowl of hotwater, this makes the sour taste from the rind dissapper and makes the juice give you more juice.--i havent tried this method as yet)

13 comments:

Nupur said...

I can see lemon/lime pieces, and I think it is a sweet and sour pickle. Whatever it is, it looks delicious!

HAREKRISHNAJI said...

Is it a Moramba ? Is it a Pickel ? No, I thing it's Lime Sweet Pickel !

Varan Bhat , and Sweet Lime pickel. Nothing like it.

HAREKRISHNAJI said...

Lime, Sugar, Salt and Chilli Powder and the Direct Sun Light are the main ingredients that goes into it. Right ?

Anonymous said...

Godd lonche right ? (Sweet and sour pickle)

Rina said...

Hey. is it lime pickle?

Manasi said...

AHA!!! No oil Lime pickle- from Manisha's blog?

Red Chillies said...

Lemon pickle ? :-)

Anonymous said...

It's Lime/Lemon Pickle

Unknown said...

Is it lemon pickle???

Anonymous said...

Lime pickle

GD

Mahek said...

thanks for you response friends..
It was a fun thing which i will be doing on and off , which is so interesting do you agree??
THANKS
NUPUR,HAREKRISHNAJI,ASHU,PUSHPA,GT,
MANASI, RED CHILLIES(i like the name), RINA AND PUSHPA....

Anonymous said...

It looks so very very good. I first found a wonderful salty lime pickle in Goa, which I have not really been able to find anywhere else, let alone here in Australia. Wonderful to see this post.

Anonymous said...

You write very well.