RAISIN & LEMON PICKLED IN GARLIC ASSORTMENT!!

Look at that beauty...!!!

I have been eating this with breakfast, dinner and lunch from the last three days!! And I still am craving for it. Actually, my craze for pickles is quiet famous in the family. During my college years, vacations were mostly spent with my granny who always had a huge stock and variety of homemade pickles. Then, I used watch movies late night, snacking on PICKLES!! I hate store bought ones and rarely touch them, but give me a jar of homemade and I could literally lick it clean for you straight away. Guess, that’s enough of “pickle mania”. Let’s get to work!

Here, we are going to prepare a sweet, sour and hot pickle. The one thing you need to be very careful about is absolutely no water goes into the pickle or else fungi will eat it up before you do.  I would prefer using smaller garlic without having to halve it. And by the way, my lemons are straight from the backyardJ.

The putting together has a gap of 14 days in between, so I will list the ingredients in the same manner.

Ingredients:

*DAY-ONE*

Fresh lemon – 8 washed and towel dried

Garlic – 2 pods peeled

Raisins – ¼th of a cup cleansed and sundried

White vinegar – ¾ of a cup

Salt – 3 heaped teaspoons

Flavourless oil of any kind – 1 tablespoon

*DAY-14*

Dried red chillies – 8

White Vinegar- ½ cup

Sugar- 3 teaspoons

Salt for adjusting taste

Method:

DAY ONE:

1.  In a deep pan, mix oil and lemon. Cook, stirring once in a while, till the lemon slightly changes colour and starts to crack. Stop exactly when it starts cracking because we don’t want to lose any juice!

2.  Now remove from stove and let it cool. Then wipe lemon clean of oil and dice into eight pieces each.

3.  Using a steamer, steam garlic for 4 to 5 minutes. Remove and wipe away all the moisture on the surface.

4.  Now take a clean, dry air tight jar and mix all the ingredients listed *WEEK-ONE* and close the jar.

5.  Let it stand for 2 weeks before proceeding further.

6.  2 or 3 times a week, open jar and mix everything using a dry spoon. Or you could just shake it around if the jar is not full to the brim.

That's how it luks end of day-1

DAY-14:

7.       Check salt of pickle and add if necessary.

8.       Remove seeds completely from dry red chillies.

9.       Soak in vinegar for few hours till it softens.

10.   Then grind into paste. The paste won’t be very fine. That’s ok.

11.   Now add this mixture and sugar to the pickle.

12.    Mix well and keep aside for 3 weeks.

13.   And there you have your oil free pickle ready to serve.

Tricks n Tips:

·     Don’t use moist spoons in your pickle container.

·         Soak chillies in vinegar for 2 days to get fine paste

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