Mix Vegetable Pickle / Bhajyanche Lonche

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:

• 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

• 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.