A proud moment. First attempt and I cant stop eating it with everything except breakfast cereal, yet 🙂
Ingredients:
500g green chilles ( ground in processor)
1 tablespoon mustard seeds (roughly ground)
1 tablespoon jeera seeds (roasted and roughly ground)
1 teaspoon methi seeds (my addition – roasted and roughly ground)
1 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 tablespoon fine salt
2 tablespoons dried crushed red chilies
2 tablespoons garlic (roughly ground)
150g Aamli (tamarind)
1/2 cup vinegar
½ cup oil
1 tablespoon sesame seeds
1 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons honey
2 sprigs curry leaves
1 tablespoon whole mustard seeds
Method:
Add ground chilies to a bowl together with the salt, turmeric powder, ground mustard, methi and jeera and crushed dried red chilies. Toss.
Soak tamarind in boiling water for half an hour.
When cool squeeze out the pulp.
Boil vinegar, sugar and tamarind together until thick like a sauce.
Using a sieve, strain over the chilies whilst still hot. Add oil to pot, heat.
Add whole mustard seeds, sesame seeds, and curry leaves.
When mustard seeds start to splutter and curry changes colour, add garlic, toss for about 10 seconds, remove from stove and pour over chilies.
Add the honey, toss well and leave to cool before bottling.
NOTE: Remember to press your pickle down in the bottle every day to tightly compact it as air pockets can make it spoil. This helps the oil to rise to the top of the bottle. Make sure your pickle has a generous layer of oil covering the top to prevent it spoiling.
After 4 to five days, it must be refrigerated….
Recipe by Eshana Suleman
Prepared, tried and tested by: Melanie Kramar
