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:
- Chop green chillies and keep them aside.
- Take a pan and add oil. Cook on a medium heat.
- Now add chopped green chillies, ridge gourd, garlic slices, jeera and cook until the ridge gourd looses its rawness.
- Let the ingredients to be cooled.
- Now, grind the ingredients in the pan along with turmeric, chilly powder, salt, tamarind and dhania powder.
- Take the grinded paste into a bowl and add the prepared seasoning.
- Garnish with Coriander leaves.
Your ridge gourd pickle is ready.
Bottle Gourd (Sorakaya) Pickle
Ingredients:
- salt according to your taste
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric (haldi)
- 2 cups chopped bottle 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:
- Chop green chillies and keep them aside.
- Take a pan and add oil. Cook on a medium heat.
- Now add chopped green chillies, bottle gourd, garlic slices, jeera and cook until the bottle gourd looses its rawness.
- Let the ingredients to be cooled.
- Now, grind the ingredients in the pan along with turmeric, chilly powder, salt, tamarind and dhania powder.
- Take the grinded paste into a bowl and add the prepared seasoning.
- Garnish with Coriander leaves.
Your bottle gourd pickle is ready.
