Sweet Tinda Pickle Recipe
The sweet tinda pickle is a spiced and sweet vegetable pickle. Made with tinda or ridge gourd, it is prepped with a medley of spiced and has onions in it too. Sweetened with jaggery, it is a cooked pickle and is set in the sun once prepared to mature.
Ingredients
Tinda (-peeled and cut into big pieces) 1 1/4 kg
Red chilli pepper 3 tsp
Black pepper ; 2 tsp
Mustard powder 8 tsp
Ground spices 3 tsp
Tamarind 60gms
Sliced garlic 2 tsp
Ground ginger 2 tsp
Onions 2
Jaggery .- 180 grns
Mustard oil 1 1/2 cups
Vinegar 1 cup
Salt 30 grits
Directions
1) Soak the tamarind in vinegar.
2) Grind garlic and onion.
3) Heat the oil until smoky and fry garlic and onion mixture until they turn into light brown.
4) Fry the ginger, red chilli pepper and tinda pieces altogether.
5) Saute the spices, mustard, salt, pepper, crushed jaggery and tamarind with vinegar for a few minutes.
6) Remove from fire, cool and put in a jar.
7) Keep in the sun for 3 days and shake it every other day.
2) Grind garlic and onion.
3) Heat the oil until smoky and fry garlic and onion mixture until they turn into light brown.
4) Fry the ginger, red chilli pepper and tinda pieces altogether.
5) Saute the spices, mustard, salt, pepper, crushed jaggery and tamarind with vinegar for a few minutes.
6) Remove from fire, cool and put in a jar.
7) Keep in the sun for 3 days and shake it every other day.
