Stuffed Red Chili Pickle

            

Lal Mirch ka Achaar (Stuffed red chili pickle)

I do not buy pickles from  market , I make it my self, either its mango pickles,chili pickle or any other pickle. I have learnt pickle recipes  from my mother who was an expert in making  pickles. 

Category - Indian  Pickles

 Ingredients - 

•  Fresh Red / Green  chili- 1 k.g (washed and dry)
•   Ajwaine (crushed),- 2-1/2 table spoon (50 g.m)
•   Salt  -  3 table spoon
•   kala namak powder (black salt)- 2 table spoon,full (50 g.m)
•   Dry mango powder( pisi khatai), -1 tea spoon(Full)
•   kaloungi seeds- 2 table spoon (full) (50 g.m)
•   Rai  ( crushed)- 2  table  spoon, full (50 g.m)
•   Heng powder(asafadita)-1 table spoon
•   Zeera(cumin seeds) crushed- 2 table spoon full (50      g.m)
•   Mustard oil - 1/2 k.g (approx )
•   Haldi powder ( termeric),- 4 table spoon  full (100 g.m)
•   Sauf (fennel seeds) crushed -5 table spoon / 1 cup    (full) 

How to make red chili pickles- 

Make a slit in red chilies with a sharp knife. Prepare  a thick paste  of  crushed  sauf, zeera, rai, ajwaine,  plain salt, black salt, heng powder, dry mango powder, kalounji, termeric powder with one  cup of mustard oil, mix it well  altogether. Adjust salt (salt should be little high in the  mixture of spices) and  fill this  stuffing in  red chilies. 

Put  this red chili pickle  in the dry glass jar, and  cover it with a piece of   muslin and fastened it  with a string, around the jar. keep it under the  direct sun light  for 2-3 days , after    2-3 days  pour in rest of the mustard oil  in  the  pickles. (chilies should be dipped well in the oil , other wise   colour of chilies will turn black.)  

keep  this  red chili pickle  under  the sun  light  for 10 days to settle down.Enhance  the taste  of your meal with this delicious red chili pickle . 

Lal Mirch ka Achaar (Stuffed Red Chili pickle)

Happy Cooking!!! 

Arshia Zaidi