Spicy Garlic Pickle

Introduction:

Garlic contains a chemical called Allicin, which has already proved to have numerous health benefits. When garlic is added to a dish, any parasites, bacteria or other microbes get killed even before the temperature kills them. Garlic is a natural antiseptic, and eating a clove of garlic a day also helps ward off most infections. Spicy Garlic pickle is very delicious and a salubrious dish.

Just try on, you will like it !

Ingredients:
Garlic flakes - 2 cup
Red chilly - 15 nos.
Fenugreek - 2 teaspoon
Lemon juice - 1 table spoon
Grated ginger - 2 table spoon
Turmeric powder- a teaspoon
Asafoetida- a teaspoon
Mustard - 2 teaspoon
Gingelly oil (sesame oil) - 3 table spoon
Vinegar - 1 tablespoon
Curry leaves
Salt - as required

Method:

Fry red chilly and fenugreek seeds in a pan without using oil.
Partially grind the fried contents in a mixie. Keep this masala powder separate.

Squeeze the lime fruits to extract the juice.
Filter the juice and add salt to it.

Heat gingelly oil in a pan and add mustard seeds.
When mustard seeds start to splutter, add curry leaves and ginger, when it half fried add garlic flakes.

Add lime juice when the mixture becomes 1/4th cooked.

When the garlic is half cooked, add turmeric powder, masala powder and salt.

Cook for few minutes and add powdered asafoetida.

Keep on the stove for about 5 minutes and finally add vinegar. Allow it to cool.
Spicy Garlic pickle is ready.