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Jan 032011
 

Mango pickles come in a wide variety. One very popular variety is the avakaya pickle, which is very popular in the State of Andhra Pradesh and is exported in large quantities all over..This is how you make it: mango peices are cut with the kernel and the skin intact as shown in the clip.. wash them thoroughly in salt water and air dry them ( indoors, under a fan ). boil about half a kg of ground nut oil or sesme seed oil and turn off the flame / heat and add about 100 to 200 gms of yellow mustard seeds ( fenugreek ) and allow it to cool down to room temerature. mix the masala into a paste in the following ratio: for every 6 kgs of mango peices.. 1 kg or red chilli powder ( pickle variety, guntur ), 1 kg of black mustard seed powder, 1.5 kgs of non iodised salt, and 1.5 kgs of groundnut oil ( other than the one already boiled with fenugreek seeds ) . into this paste of masala, add handfuls of mango peices in a smaller container, and mix thoroughly so that the masala coats the peices; stack these coated peices of mango in a suitable non corrosive ( such as glass, glazed earthenware or food grade polycarbonate containers ) when fully stacked, add about 2 liters of clean water and the cooled oil, close the lid tight and leave to pickle; pickleing wil take about 10 days, but you have to take out the pickes into another container and thoroughly mix them every three days.. when fully pickled, the pickle will have layer of oil floating on top and the mango peices will have shrunk
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Jan 032011
 

Recipe: South Indian Lemon Pickle

Summary: Simple recipe for South Indian Lemon Pickle

Ingredients

  • Lemon: 4 nos
  • Garlic: 1 pod
  • Ginger: 1 inch piece
  • Small green chili: 4 nos
  • Curry leaves- 1 spring
  • Salt 1 Tablespoon
  • Fenugreek powder-1/4 tablespoon
  • Asafetida powder-1/4 tablespoon
  • Sesame oil or any other oil- 1 tablespoon
  • Mustard seeds-1/4 tablespoon
  • Vinegar: 1/4 cup
  • Water: 1/4 cup

Instructions

  1. Cut green chili, ginger and garlic in to small pieces.
  2. Cut lemons in to small cubes.
  3. Heat oil in a pan and allow mustard seeds to crack up.
  4. Add curry leaves, green chili, ginger and garlic and mix for 2-3 minutes.
  5. Add lemon, salt, fenugreek powder and asafetida powder. Mix and cook for 1 minute.
  6. Add vinegar and water to this mixture and heat until it boils.
  7. Remove from flame and cool to room temperature before storing in air tight bottles.
 Posted by at 10:04 pm
Jan 032011
 

Watch this video from Kerala tourism development corporation about the preparation of cut mango achar. This is one of the simplest method of preparation and it takes less than 15 minutes to make tasty cut mango achar.

 Posted by at 9:26 pm
Jan 032011
 

Recipe: South Indian Chili Achar

Ingredients

  • 20-30 green chilies
  • 1 whole garlic pod
  • 1 inch piece ginger
  • 1 Tablespoon Chili powder
  • 1/8 table spoon turmeric
  • Salt 2 Tablespoon
  • 1/4 Tablespoon fenugreek powder
  • 1/4 Tablespoon Asafetida powder
  • 1 cup vinegar
  • 1/4 Tablespoon mustard seeds
  • 1/4 cup oil

Instructions

  1. Grate garlic and ginger in to small pieces.
  2. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds until it pop ups. Add garlic/ginger pieces to the pan and fry for 2-3 minutes.
  3. Add Chili powder, green chilies, salt, turmeric powder, Fenugreek and Asafetida powder and mix for another 2-3 minutes.
  4. Add vinegar and allow boiling the mixture.
  5. Cool the mixture to room temperature and store in air tight containers.
 Posted by at 2:33 pm
Jan 032011
 

Ingredients
15-20 green chilis, chopped
1 whole garlic pod
1 inch piece ginger
1+ 1/2 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp haldi/ turmeric
salt to taste- 1/2 tsp
1 tsp laung/ cloves
1 tsp poppy seeds
1 tsp methi seeds/ fenugreek
1 cup vinegar
1/2 cup oil
Watch the video for Pakistani Chilli Pepper Pickling methods

 Posted by at 1:01 pm
Jan 032011
 

Western pickling methods are very simple and chili peppers are pickled in vinegar and pickling salt. Pickling salt is a salt that is used mainly for canning and manufacturing pickles. It is made without iodine or any anti-caking products added. If pickles are made with table salt, they will have dark and cloudy juice, due to the iodide in the salt, although the flavor should be about the same. Pickling salt is very fine grained, to speed up dissolving in water to create brine, so it is useful for any solution which needs salt.
These pickles are used with sandwiches and hot dogs.
Watch this video for more information

 Posted by at 12:50 pm