Cauliflower Pickle

- Submitted by Elizabeth on 26th Feb 2008

(Phool Gobhi Achaar, Cauliflower Urugai)

Recipe for Cauliflower Pickle

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 2 minutes
Serves: 10

Ingredients

• Medium sized cauliflower head - 1
• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Mustard seeds - 2 tsp
• Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - to taste
• Lemon juice - 3 tbsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Red Chili powder - 2 tbsp
• Asaefoetida - 1/4 tsp
• Oil - 5 tsp
• Curry leaves - 2 string

Method

1. Chop the cauliflower finely. You can also use the food processor to do this easily.

   

2. Bring water to boil in a sauce pan. Add salt and drop the florets in it. Drain the water completely after 30 seconds. This will kill any small bugs that may be between the florets.
3. Dry the florets completely. Take the florets in a bowl. Add salt, turmeric powder, red chili powder with this and mix together.

   

4. In a kadai dry roast 1 tsp of cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds and 1 tsp of mustard seeds. Cool the mixture, grind it to make a fine power and add it to the cauliflower mixture. I always have roasted cumin powder, fenugreek powder and mustard powder on hand. So I just add about 1/4 tsp of each powder directly to the mixture.
5. Squeeze some fresh lemon juice over the mixture and mix once again. You can also use bottled lemon concentrate or white vinegar instead.

   

6. Heat oil in a small pan, add the remaining mustard seeds. When it splatters, add the curry leaves and a pinch of asafoetida . Sesame oil tastes best for any pickle.

   

7. Add this to the cauliflower mixture. Cover with a lid. Let this soak for 24 hours or at least for 3 hours before serving.

   

Serving Cauliflower Pickle

• Serve this tasty pickle with white rice and curry or any variety rice dishes like curd rice, sambar rice or pudhina rice.
• It aslo tastes great with chapati or any paratha varieties with some curd.

Variations

• Similarly you can make instant pickle with any vegetable and make your meal interesting. Some pickles that I make often are carrot pickle, cabbage pickle, bittergourd pickle, radish pickle, raw mango pickle, gooseberry pickle, ivy-gourd pickle, celery pickle and parsnip pickle. Give them a try.

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Comment by Deepak Dubey
    nice
 
Reply :-
    Thank You.

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