Green Chili Pickle
Green Chili Pickle - Ingredients:
- Crushed yellow mustard seeds – 4 tbsp
- Freshly ground cumin seeds – 4 tbsp
- Garlic cloves, crushed – 50 gms
- Small garlic cloves peeled but left whole – 20 gms
- Ground turmeric – ¼ cup
- White vinegar – 2/3 cup
- Granulated sugar – 1/3 cup
- Salt – 2 tsp
- Mustard oil – 2/3 cup
- Small fresh green chilies, halved – 450 gms
- Mix the mustard and cumin seeds, the turmeric, crushed garlic, vinegar, salt and sugar together in a sterilized glass bowl.
- Cover with a cloth and leave to rest for 24 hours. This enables the spices to infuse and the sugar and salt to melt.
- Heat the mustard oil in a frying pan and gently fry the spice mixture for about 5 minutes (keep a window open while cooking with mustard oil as it is pungent and the smoke may irritate the eyes).
- Add the garlic cloves and fry for a further 5 minutes.
- Add the chilies and cook gently until tender but still green in color. This will take about 30 minutes on low heat.
