Lime Pickle Recipe
Tamil Nadu Style Lime Pickle Recipe
Servings 1 Cup
Equipment
- 1 Glass Pickle Jar Do not store in metal containers.
Ingredients
- 8 Key Limes or Limes
- 1/4 cup Red Chilli Powder
- Salt to taste
- 3/4 cup Gingelly Oil
- 1 tbsp Mustard Seeds Optional
Instructions
- Wash and dry the limes thoroughly. Moisture can cause mold.
- Chop up limes into 1-inch pieces and add to a pickle jar.
- Mix salt. Cover with lime pickle jar with the lid.
- Stir the lime pickle every day for a week.
- Add the red chilli powder and combine well.
- Heat the gingelly oil on the 8th day. Add mustard seeds, if required. Allow the seeds to pop in the hot oil.
- Store the pickle jar away from sunlight.
Notes
- You can use both key limes or limes
- I prefer Kashmiri Mirch chili powder
- Add salt according to your preference. As a rule, pickle requires more salt and Indian pickles must taste saltier than the ocean. Salt cooks the lime naturally and prevents mold from forming on the pickle. Doing this allows the limes to absorb the salt evenly.
- You should stir the pickle every now and then. This redistributes flavor to the entire jar and allows stagnant oil on the top to saturate the drier bottoms.
- Add more gingelly oil as and when it dries up.