Nellikai Pickle

Pickle is popular in south India, particularly in Andhra Pradesh. The Telugu people’s meal is incomplete without pickle. No one can makes pickle like Telugu people; they make range of pickle in mangoes, lemon, cucumber, cauliflower, gooseberry (amla)…...etc as per seasonal fruits and vegetables. They prepare spicy pickle, sweet pickle and pickle without chilly powder at all!!!!!!!!!!  Coming to the recipe this is a mouthwatering pickle of Indian gooseberry i.e.; amla in Hindi, nellikai in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada

 

 Ingredient

10  Amla

100gm Tamarind

¾ cup Chilly powder

¾ cup Salt

200ml Groundnut oil

1sp Rai (mustard)

1sp Zeera (cumin)

1 Garlic

Method

Boil tamarind in 1cup of water and keep aside to cool

Grind tamarind in mixer, strain pulp, and keep aside

In cooker add sliced amla, salt and tamarind pulp and cook for 1whistle and keep aside to cool

Ones amla gets cool add chillipowder and mix well and keep aside

Heat oil in kadai add rai and zeera after it crackle add crushed garlic fry it and keep aside to get cool

Ones oil get cool add cooked amla and mix well and close led and keep aside for whole night

Next day check if oil has come above the pickle is so store it in bottle or else again heat 2-3tbp of oil and add to amla ones oil get cool.

This pickle can be stored for months together.