MIXED VEGETABLE OORAGAYA PACHADI
A lip smacking instant pickle with fresh winter vegetables makes a perfect accompaniment for any meal. Quick and easy pickle specially made in winters.
Ingredients
- 3 Carrots
- 15 Tindora
- 2 cups Cauliflower
- 10 Green chillies
For the masala
- ½ cup Mustard seed powder
- 1 cup Roasted sesame seed powder
- 1 cup Salt
- 1 tsp Cumin powder
- 1 tsp Fenugreek seed powder
- 1 cup Lemon juice
- 1 tsp Turmeric powder
- 15 Garlic cloves
For tempering
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
Instructions
Prepping
- Wash and chop the veggies into 1 inch vertical strips.
- Dry roast the sesame seeds and blend them to a fine powder.
- Dry roast the fenugreek seeds and cumin seeds and blend/pound them to a fine powder.
- Cut the lemons and extract the juice and keep aside.
Mixing the pickle
- In a mixing bowl add cut mix veggies, slit green chillies,peeled garlic cloves, sesame seed powder, fenugreek seed powder, cumin seed powder, salt, turmeric powder and give everything a good mix.
- Add lemon juice and give it a good stir.
- Make the tempering, heat a pan add oil, once it's hot add mustard seeds and let it splutter.
- Now add the tempering to the pickle mix, stir until everything is incorporated properly.
- Transfer the pickle to a clean and dry airtight glass jar and stays good for a month in refrigerator.
- Let the pickle rest and infuse the spices into veggies. Later serve the chilled pickle with hot rice or curd rice or rotis.
Notes
- You can add in more firm vegetables like cabbage, green peppers/capsicum, beans etc.,
- Always store the pickle in airtight glass/ceramic jar, other containers might leach metallic taste into the pickle with the acidic property of lemon juice.
- You could also skip adding garlic cloves to make jain version/no onion no garlic pickle.