Ridge gourd (beerakaya) pickle

Ingredients:

• salt according to your taste
• 1/2 teaspoon turmeric (haldi)
• 2 cups chopped ridge gourd
• 3 green chillies
• chilly powder according to your taste
• 2 garlic slices
• chopped Coriander leaves
• Dhania powder

Seasoning Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds (jeera)
• a pinch of asafetida (hing)
• 2 whole red chilies
• 4 to 5 Curry leaves
• 1 teaspoon of mustard seeds
• 1 teaspoon of urad dal

Method:

Seasoning Preparation: 

Take a pan. Add oil and let it boil on a medium heat and add all the seasoning ingredients. Cook until the mustard seeds splutter.

Pickle Preparation:

1. Chop green chillies and keep them aside.
2. Take a pan and add oil. Cook on a medium heat.
3. Now add chopped green chillies, ridge gourd, garlic slices, jeera and cook until the ridge gourd looses its rawness.
4. Let the ingredients to be cooled.
5. Now, grind the ingredients in the pan along with turmeric, chilly powder, salt, tamarind and dhania powder.
6. Take the grinded paste into a bowl and add the prepared seasoning.
7. Garnish with Coriander leaves.

Your ridge gourd pickle is ready.