Recipe : Crushed Lemon Pickle

Ingredients :

• Lemons ripe and juicy - 6

• Sugar – 1 cup

• Salt - 1 tbsp

• Fenugreek seeds – ½ tsp

• Fennel seeds – ½ tsp

• Nigella seeds (kalonji) – ½ tsp

• Salt - 1 tbsp

• Turmeric powder – ½ tbsp

• Mustard seeds crushed coarsely –½ tbsp

• chili powder red - 2 tbsp

• Asafoetida - ½ tsp

• Oil – ½ tbsp

Method :

• Wash lemons and wipe dry. 

• Quarter lemons, deseed them carefully.

• Run them in a blender with sugar.

• The lemons should turn to coarse crumb like bits.

• Heat oil in a small pan, add seeds, allow to splutter, cool.

• Add all other ingredients, including salt and lemons, mix well.

• Sun this mixture for 4 days till matured.

• Shelf life: 2 months.