Nellikkai Instant Pickle:

Gooseberries Pickle. Amla ki Achaar.

Ingredients:

Gooseberries 1 cup crushed
salt
Turmeric powder 1/4 spoon
Freshly ground chili powder 1 spoons
Asafoetida 1/2 spoon
Mustard seeds 1 spoons
Curry leaves few
Sesame oil few spoons.

Method:

Crush these berries. Oh yeah….discard the seeds if you don’t like them! Set them aside in a display bowl.

In a pan, heat oil. Add mustard seeds….allow them to pop well.

Then add curry leaves and asafoetida. Fry them for few seconds.

Add salt, turmeric and chili powder to this. Just few seconds….remove them from stove.

Run this over the chopped berries. Mix them well. Thats it….its ready, get eating.

For variation….one can add dash of fenugreek and mustard powder too.

Its easy to fix….simple instant pickle. Well…keep them in a non-reactive bowl! The acid in the berries may react with steal or iron vessels! Using sea salt would be a good idea. They don’t give any metallic taste to the pickle!!