Star fruit pickle
Star fruit pickle
Ingredients
Star fruit : 12 - 15 (4 cups chopped)
Salt : 6 tsp
Masala:
Asafetida (shankar brand hing) : 1 cm piece
Pepper : 12
Fenugreek : 1/8 tsp
Mustard : 3 tsp
Turmeric powder : 1/4 tsp
Kashmiri chili powder : around 6 tblsp
Oil : 1/4 cup
Procedure :
Cut the star fruits into pieces(discard the inner white membrane and the seeds if possible), put salt and leave covered overnight in a glass or ceramic bowl (or place some weight over it). This process will produce brine, next day separate the brine from the pieces; boil and cool it and reserve it for later use.
Sundry 2 tsp mustard or just warm them up on a hot pan and crush them to make a course powder using a mortar or grinding stone.
Heat 1 tblsp oil in a saucepan and put in the asafetida and pepper corns, when they start cracking add fenugreek seeds and 1 tsp mustard and fry till the mustard change to a gray colour. Then add turmeric powder and switch the flame off. Grind the fried spices on a grinding stone.
Add the ground spices to the salted pieces of fruits along with the crushed mustard and chili powder.
Mean while heat the remaining oil (just until you see some tiny bubbles at the bottom of the pan) and allow it to cool, after cooling add it to the pickle. Also add some of the brine which was separated in the beginning to adjust the salt and the consistency. Put the pickle in sterilized jars and top it with some of the oil and store. Refrigeration will preserve it longer.
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