Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Garlic Pickle

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You will need:

  • 1 cup garlic cloves
  • 10 green chillies (optional)
  • ½ cup vinegar or ¼ cup lemon juice
  • ½ cup gingelly oil (nallennai)
  • salt as reqd
To roast and grind:
  • 2 tbsp coriander seeds
  • 10 dry red chillies
  • ½ tsp fenugreek seeds (venthayam)
  • 1 tbsp cumin seeds
  • few curry leaves
Procedure:

Step 1:

Peel off the skin from the garlic and keep it aside. If the garlic is too big chop the garlic cloves lengthwise.

Step 2:

Dry roast the spices:

Heat a pan on medium high heat. Dry roast coriander seeds, fenugreek seeds, red chillies, curry leaves and cumin seeds for 3 to 5 mins till it leaves a good aroma and well roasted. Then dry grind the spices and keep it aside

Step 3:

Heat oil in a pan and add garlic, green chillies to it. Saute garlic till it turns golden brown color. Then add the ground spices to it and saute well for a min.

Step 4:

Now low the heat and add vinegar/ lemon juice to it along with salt. Taste the pickle and check for salt. Enjoy!!!!!!


Hint:
  • I added green chillies with garlic pickle, because i love green chilli pickle too.
  • To thicken the pickle, you can do one more simple step. Peel ¼ cup garlic and microwave it for 1 to 2 min till it becomes soft. Grind it to a fine paste and add it after adding the ground spices.

8 comments:

R said...

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Dahlia said...

hi viji,
i tried this pickle. it turned out yummy. we infact had it as a sidedish more than a pickle.
dahlia

Unknown said...

Dahlia akka.. Thanks for trying this recipe and very glad to hear that u liked it.. Enjoy!!!!

Sanghi said...

Nice recipe. My hubby loves garlic pickle. I was searching for recipies, mm.. i found the right one. Nice click too..
going to try out now..

Sanghi said...

Hi Viji,

I'v made some changes for my taste in it and it turned out pretty well. Kindly check it out at my site http://www.sanghi-tastybites.blogspot.com
thanks for the recipe.

vidhas said...

nice pickle. I love garlic pickle, surely i am going to try this.

Unknown said...

Good luck Vidhas..Thanks for leaving ur valuable comment..

Unknown said...

Hi Sanghai.. Nice variation.. Will try your way next time..