Saturday, December 22, 2007

Osirikkaya (Amla) pachadi

I love this pickle. I learnt it from my grandma. This is very good for health also and it is very tasty to eat when u fall sick.

Ingridients:-
Amlas round big ones (1/2 Kg)
Chillie pwder - 1 cup
Salt - 3/4 cup
lemons - 10 peices
Turmeric - 1 tspn
Vegetable oil for frying

1. Wash amlas thoroughly, clean and dry them.
2. Take oil in a pan and add the amlas
3. Keep flame low and fry them nicely for about 15 mins. As you fry you see that they slowly swell out and start becoming translucent and tender. With spatula, cut them into peices.
4. Once they are cooked remove from heat
5. For one bowl of amlas(1/2 kg), take 3/4 cup of salt and 1 cup of chillie powder. Measurement is the hard part. I always follow my intuition.
6. Add salt and chillie powder to the amlas and keep placing them in the air tight container u will use to store the pickle.
7. Once all aamlas are finished, add turmeric powder to it.
8. now squeeze lemon juice from 10-12 lemons and add it to the mixture. Mix well
9. Now leave alone the mixture for 3 days. Watch it once a day to see its doing it.
10. After 3 days it will be all set to eat.

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