Garlic Pickle Recipe, For the love of it!!!

Garlic Pickle Recipe, For the love of it!!!

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Note:
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1.All ingredients should be dry. Clean the garlic some time before and dry them under the fan.
2.Try not to use wet hands, wet utensils any time during the preparation of the recipe. This will increase the longevity of the pickle.
3.Dry the bottle thoroughly. Tip: Just hold the bottle upside down on the burner for a few mins. Ofcourse with the burner on. Do the same with the bottle lid. This will evaporate any of the moisture left inside the bottle. Caution : dont hold the bottle more than say 15-20 secs.
4. If u can get cut garlic pieces from the market that will be great, otherwise considerable time will go in peeling and chopping the garlic.

Garlic pickle
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Ingredients:
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Garlic - 3 cups, peeled and cut into smaller pieces
Gingely Oil(nalla ennai) - 5 Table spoons (depends )
Chili Powder - 3 Tea Spoons
Malli powder -1 tea spoon
Lemon Juice - 6 tea Spoons
Salt - As Per Taste
Mustard Seeds- 2 Tea Spoons
Fenugreek Seeds - 1 Tea Spoon
Turmeric - ½ Spoon (optional)
jaggery-roughly 2 tea spoons.


Method:
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1.Fry Mustard and fenugreek seeds dry and grind them together.

2.Crack some mustard seeds(out of the two tea spoons for this recipe) in oil .Add garlic in the oil(excess such that u can clearly see all the garlic coated with oil. u can add more than this if depending on the amount of oil u want in the final pickle) till golden brown.

2.After the garlic wilts and cooks down a lil bit, pour lemon juice and cook for a 2-3 mins.

3.Add all the masala(fenugreek and mustard powder,Chilli powder, malli powder,turmeric) and salt.

4.Allow some time for the raw smell of the masal to go. Taste the pickle at this stage and adjust all seasoning accordingly.

5. Switch it off, once the oil starts to separate from the garlic mix. Just before switching off, add jaggery. The indicator for enuf jaggery is that u can slightly taste the sweet taste from the pickle.(some ppl add lot more of lemon juice and lot of jaggery. it depends on ur taste.)

6. Allow it to cool and store in a clean bottle.
Shelf life is about one month.


Hope all of you enjoy the pickle!!!