Raw turmeric and ginger pickle

• Servings:
• Preparation time: 10 minutes.
• Drying time: 30 minutes.
• Seasoning time: 3 minutes.
• Total time: 13 minutes.

Pickles are the ancient delicacy.

Do you know Napoleon was once one of the most powerful people of the world?

He liked pickle and believed pickles were a necessary part of food for the health of his troops.

Ingredients:

• Raw turmeric: 100 gm
• Ginger: 75-100 gm
• Salt: one and half teaspoon
• Yellow mustard: 2 tablespoon
• Fenugreek seed: 1 teaspoon
• Red chilli powder: 8-10 no.
• Mustard seed: half teaspoon
• Whole red chilli: 1 no.
• Asafoetida: 1 pinch
• Funnel seed: 1 teaspoon
• Kalonji (Onion seed): 1 pinch
• Mustard oil: 50 gm
• Lemon: 1 no.

Preparation:

1. Scrap and discard skin of turmeric and ginger, diced into small pieces.
2. Put these in to the sun or under fan for 20-30 minutes for drying to get rid of extra water.
3. Grind yellow mustard seed, fenugreek seed and dry red chilli together, keep aside.

Method:

1. Put oil in  a fry pan it, when oil starts  to smoke, put one pinch mustard seed, one dry red chilli broken in 3-4 pieces and asafoetida; sputter for few seconds, put off the flame.
2. Add dry masala and mix it well; let it cool to room temperature.
3. Take a mixing bowl; put dried ginger and turmeric pieces, pour this oil masala mixture on the ginger and turmeric pieces.
4. Mix properly with the help of spoon.
5. Now, raw turmeric and ginger pickle is ready.
6.  Store this pickle in a glass container.
7. You can use this pickle for months.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Raw turmeric and ginger pickle by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.