India
Green Chilli Pickle Recipe
Prep Time | 15 minutes |
Cook Time | 25 minutes |
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Ingredients
- 2 cups Green chilies chopped
- 6 tbsp Mustard seeds
- 3 tbsp rock salt
- 2 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1 cup mustard oil or sunflower oil or peanut oil
- ½ cup Lemon juice
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Instructions
- Rinse and wipe dry the green chilies very well.
- Remove the crowns and chop the green chilies into 1” pieces.
- In a dry grinder, powder the mustard seeds coarsely.
- In a clean glass jar, add the green chilies, ground mustard seeds and salt.
- Mix by shaking the jar or use a clean non-reactive spoon to mix the contents of the jar.
- Cover the jar with its lid tightly and keep in the sun for 2 to 3 days.
- After 2 to 3 days, add lemon juice and turmeric powder to the pickle.
- With a clean non-reactive spoon, mix everything very well.
- Close the jar and again keep in the sun for 1 to 2 days.
- After 1 or 2 days, heat mustard oil till its smoking point.
- Pour the mustard oil in the pickle jar.
- Cover the jar with its lid and keep the pickle at room temperature for 4 to 5 days for the pickling process to happen.
- Serve with dal-chawal or parathas.
Recipe Notes
If there is no sunlight, you can simply let the pickle stand at room temperature as well.