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gooseberry pickle | nellikai thokku

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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course: pickle, Side Dish
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 500 gram gooseberry/ amla/ nellikai 18 numbers (frozen)
  • ½ cup sesame oil
  • 1 tsp mustard seeds
  • ¼ tsp fenugreek seeds
  • few curry leaves
  • 2 tbsp Kashmiri red chilly powder 3 or 4 tbsp KR Chilly powder for fresh goose berries
  • ¼ tsp fenugreek powder
  • salt to taste

Method
 

Steaming and blending:
  1. Firstly wash the gooseberries well, then place it in steaming plate
  2. Steam cook for 10 minutes
  3. After steam cooked the gooseberries, let it cool
  4. then deseed it, put it in the blender jar
  5. blend it coarsely, and keep aside
Making pickle:
  1. Heat ½ cup of sesame oil in a pan, splutter 1 tsp of mustard seeds, ¼ cup of fenugreek seeds, few curry leaves
  2. and then add-in coarse ground paste, keep the flame low
  3. Now add 2 tbsp of Kashmiri red chilly powder, ¼ tsp of turmeric powder and ¼ tsp of fenugreek powder, just give a mix
  4. that is it amla/ gooseberry pickle is ready (nellikai thokku)