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Tender drumstick pickle

Servings:
Preparation time: 10 minutes.
Keep under the sun time:30 minutes
Frying time: 10 minutes.
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Total time: 35 minutes.

Those who eat ‘ Murungai(drumstick)’ will go empty handed, is a popular saying in the village of south Tamil Nadu, means the person eating drumstick regularly will not required any support, especially a stick, to walk even in his 70’s.

This is the reason each house has a drum stick tree in their backyard and the leaves, and drumstick were consumed regularly to lead a healthy life.

Ingredients:

Tender drumstick: 200 gm
Salt: one and half teaspoon
Yellow mustard powder: 2 tablespoon
Red chilli powder: 10 gm
Turmeric powder: half teaspoon
Asafoetida: 1 pinch
Fennel seed: 1 teaspoon
Kalonji (Onion seed): 1 pinch
Garam masala powder: half teaspoon
Black pepper powder: one forth teaspoon
Mustard oil: 50 gm
Onion: 20 gm
Ginger: 20 gm
Garlic: 2-3 flacks
Vinegar: 1 teaspoon spoon
Jaggery: 1 teaspoon (optional)
Tamarind: 5-10 gm

Preparation:

Clean and chop drumstick into 3″ pieces; blanch (put the vegetables into the boiling water for 2 minutes. And immediately put into chilled water and then in running water), keep aside.
Grind onion, ginger and garlic together; wet Masala is ready. Keep aside.
Soak Jaggery and tamarind into the vinegar for minimum about 4-6 minutes minutes; mix properly with hand and sieve this, pulp is ready for use. Keep aside.
Put blanched vegetables in to the sun or under fan for 20-minutes for drying to get rid of extra water.

Method:

Take a fry pan. Put oil in it, when oil starts smoking, put asafoetida and ground wet masala; fry on medium flame until it becomes golden brown in colour and oil separates from the masala(about 3-4 minutes). Lower the flame; add all dry masala continue to fry for couple of minutes on lower flame.
Add dry drumstick; continue to fry for another 2-3 minutes. Put off the flame, keep aside.
When it comes on normal temperature; add prepared pulp in it, mix well.
Drumstick pickle is ready; store this pickle in a glass container.