Green chilli pickle (Hari Mirch ka Achar)

• Servings:
• Preparation time: 10 minutes.
• Drying time: 6-8 hours.
• Soaking  mustard time: 6-8 hours.
• Mixing time: 5 minutes.
• Total time: 15 minutes.

Green chilli pickle is my son’s favorite; great taste, it’s very flavourful and aromatic. If you like the crispier and crunchier, then you make it in small quantities.

Ingredients:

• Green chilli: 250 gm
• Salt: one and half tablespoon
• Funnel seed: 1 teaspoon
• Fenugreek seed powder: 1 teaspoon
• Turmeric powder: 1 teaspoon
• Yellow Mustard powder: 30 gm
• Lemon: 5-6 no.
• Mustard seeds: 1 tea spoon
•  Asafoetida: 1 pinch
• Mustard oil: 2 tablespoon

Preparation:

1. Clean and wash green chilli.  Dry them with kitchen towel.
2. Remove the stem of chilli; chop the chilli from centre longitudinally then cut into 2-3” long pieces, keep aside for 6-8 hours preferably under fan. (So that it becomes dry).
3. Take bowl, put mustard powder, and squeeze lemon juice; ensure enough quantity of lemon juice so that mustard seed powder immersed properly. Keep aside for 6-8 hours.

Method:

1. Take a fry pan, Put oil and heat on high flame, when smoke begins to come; add mustard seed, sputter for few seconds, put off the flame.
2. Add asafoetida, funnel seed, fenugreek seed powder, turmeric powder and mustard seed powder which is already soaked into the lime juice.
3. Add green chilli and mix them; add salt (salt is to be added when mixture is not very hot), stir well keep aside for 3-4 hours.
4. Green chilli pickle is ready to serve, transfer into glass jar.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Green chilli pickle (Hari Mirch ka Achar) by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.