Name: Home Made Lemon Pickle : Elumichai Oorukai
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 12 nos Lemon ( ripe & fresh ); 8 nos Green chillies ( with or without stalks, washed ); 2 inch Fresh ginger ( peeled and washed ); 2 tsp Fenugreek seeds; Salt (to taste)

Home Made Lemon Pickle : Elumichai Oorukai

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Prep Time 20 mins

Total Time 20 mins

Cuisine Tamil

Servings people

Ingredients

12 nos Lemon ripe & fresh
8 nos Green chillies with or without stalks, washed
2 inch Fresh ginger peeled and washed
2 tsp Fenugreek seeds
Salt to taste

Instructions

Wash lemons, dab dry and cut them into 4 to 8 pieces.
Cut green chillies into ½” to 1” long pieces and cut ginger into discs of suitable thickness or into small pieces.
Roast salt till the crepitation subsides. Roast fenugreek till it turns brownish in colour.
Grind the two well.
Mix them all thoroughly and store in a clean, dry, airtight preferably a glass bottle.
Shake the bottle every day.
It takes about 4 days to be ready for use, by which time some juice from the ingredients also collects binding all the ingredients together.