A pickle with minimum oil and hence can have this pickle guilt free and this can be eaten as soon as you make it....
Pre time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 10 mins
Ingredients for making Instant Nellikkai / Amla Pickle :
Nellikkai / Amla / Gooseberries 15
Red chilli powdered 1 full tea spoon
Hing powder / Asafoetida 1/4 tea spoon
Fenugreek 3/4 tea spoon
Salt as required
Sesame / Gingelly oil 3 tea spoons
How to make Instant Nellikkai / Amla Pickle ?
In a pan dry roast the fenugreek / venthayam to golden brown, powder it and keep aside.
Wash the gooseberries, wipe them out and steam them in an idli cooker or steamer for 20 minutes.
By this time they will become soft and easily you can take the seeds out.
Heat a pan with oil.
Once oil is heated keep the flame low and add the salt, asafoetida and red chilli powder to the oil and give a fast stir.
Add the boiled gooseberry pieces to it and fry them well.
Let them get fried in low flame for 7 to 8 minutes.
Stir ocassionally.
Add the fenugreek powder and switch off the stove.
Mix well.
Once they get cooled down store in an air tight box , refrigerate and use.
