Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, instant lemon pickle. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Instant Lemon Pickle is one of the treasures from my grand-mom's (Aaji's) kitchen that I loved from the get go!! I had not tasted store bought pickles until I moved away from home for work. Instant lemon pickle (elumichai oorugai) is made by pressure cooking lemon and seasoning it with spices, instead of marinating lemon in salt and wait for few days.
Instant Lemon Pickle is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Instant Lemon Pickle is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have instant lemon pickle using 15 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Instant Lemon Pickle:
- Get 5 lemon /lime preferably yellow coloured and thin skined
- Take 1 cup water
- Prepare 2 tsp Kashmiri red chilli powder (add more if you want spicy)
- Make ready 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- Get 1 tsp Mustard seed powder
- Take 1/4 tsp fenugreek powder
- Prepare 1 tsp tamarind pulp
- Make ready 2 tsp crushed jaggery powder
- Make ready 2 tbsp lemon juice
- Get 1 tbsp salt (adjust your taste)
- Make ready 3 tbsp mustard oil / any oil
- Prepare 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- Prepare 1/4 tsp asafoetida / hing
- Get 1/2 tsp garlic paste
- Take 1 tsp cumin powder
Instant lemon pickle is very easy to make and can be made within minutes as compared to the traditional recipe which takes several days to prepare. The flavours of the homemade pickle is any. Amma makes an instant lemon pickle elumichai oorugaai in tamil, by using pressure cooker method.
Instructions to make Instant Lemon Pickle:
- Firstly take the thin skinned yellow lemon to avoid bitterness. In pan or pressure cooker add 5 lemons and water then boil it until they soft. In cooker 5 whistle to cook.
- Lemons looks soft and might have cut few cuts on them. do not worry as it indicates lemons are cooked well.
- Now take off the cooked lemon. And leaving behind the water.
- Cut the lemons into quarter pieces. Or pieces as your desire.
- Additionally add chilli powder, salt, Mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds powder, turmeric powder, tamarind pulp, jaggery, mix well.
- Also add lemon juice as required to adjust the consistency. Mix well and keep aside
- Now prepare the tempering by heating mustard oil, or any oil. Be generous in addition of oil. As they help pickle to store longer
- Nex add mustard seeds and hing, cumin powder allow to splutter them. add crushed garlic paste saute well.
- Further pour the tempering into the prepared Pickle's.
- Give a good mix. Making sure the oil is floating from sides..
- Finally serve instant lemon Pickle's. And store in airtight containers. Pickle stays fresh for a week without refrigerating.
- My tip :- use thin skin yellow coloured lemon to avoid bitterness. Also store Pickle's longer Time instead of pressure cooking, soak lemon pieces in salt. Additionally add more lemon juice for increase the gravy of pickle. Salt and oil act as preservatives in storing pickle for long time.
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