I love to prepare this vegetable pickle because it is very easy to make and can be done quickly. I like seasonal short term pickles, instead of yearly pickles. In winter, these fresh veggies have great taste. Hence pickle tastes great.
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
- Green Peas - ¼
- Carrot, chopped into small pieces - ¼ cup
- Cauliflower florets, chopped into small pieces - ¼
- Garlic- 8 cloves (optional)
- Lemon juice 1 ½ to 2 tbsp
- Readymade Maharashtrian style mango pickle masala - 3 to 4 tbsp
- Turmeric Powder - ½ tsp
- Mustard seeds (Rai) - ¼ tsp (optional)
- Asafetida (hing) - ¼ tsp
- Oil - 5 tbsp
- Salt- 2 tsp or to taste
Method
Tips:
- Boil water, add a pinch of salt. Switch off the gas and add peas, carrot, cauliflower in the boiling water. Rest for 5 miniutes in hot water and then drain comeletely. Spread on cotton cloth and dry comeletely them in the shade.
- Prick the garlic cloves.
- Combine all veggies, garlic, salt, lemon juice, turmeric powder and pickle masala. Mix well.
- Heat oil till it smokes. Switch off the gas. When oil become little bit cool then add mustard seeds, let them crackled and add hing, otherwise hing will burn.
- When oil come to room temperature, add this oil in pickle mixture bowl and mix well.
- Transfer the pickle in to clean, sterilize, dry and airtight glass jar.
- Here I use very less oil for pickle. So keep this pickle in the freeze after 2 days. (Pickle with less oil will stay fresh for long time in refrigerator.)
- Marinate/keep this pickle for approx 4 to 6 days.
- This pickle goes well with Paratha or Da-rice or Khichadi.
Tips:
- If you dont have your own homemade pickle masala. Use ready made masala. I prefer K-pra or Pravin mango pickle masala.
- According to your taste you can add more masala, lemon juice or salt.
- You can add different vegetables as per your choice. You can add ginger also.
- Never add raw oil directly in the pickle.