Sweet&Sour Lemon Pickle
Sweet and sour,spicy and pungent these are the burst of flavours come on your taste buds when you have first bite of this heavenly delicious pickle. Yes, i am talking about" Lemon Pickle". According to an old adage"When life gives you lemon you make lemonade", its right..isnt it? No.. its wrong the new adage is"When life gives you Lemon you make pickle out of it".Now that's sounds like a real deal in an Indian household. The Lemon pickle is essentially prepared in winter in India. For pickle most of the time thin skinned Lemon(KAGJI NEEBU) is used. This winter luckily I got those special thin skinned lemon in States itself and I got them in bulk from one of my dear friend. I distributed in all my other friends and still I was left with considerable amount. Then I thought of pickling the lemon first time in my life. I called my Mom back home, asked the recipe. Followed the traditional one with little bit of twist and viola! it turned out scrumptiously delicious Pickle. Benefit of using these thin skinned Lemon is, it gets ready little early but if you don't find thin skinned lemon you can always use the other varieties. The only thing it takes little bit longer to get ready.
1.Wash the Lemon thoroughly in running water and let them dry completely.
2.Cut the lemon in round slices(approximately 4-5 slice in each lemon) and then
cut the slices in quarters.So it is lots of work. Take out all the seeds.
3. Place all the pieces in a big glass bowl. Add Salt in it and mix well so that salt incorporates well with lemon pieces. Cover the bowl and keep it aside for four days. Keep stirring in between.
4.After four days add Sugar,Cinamon (powder and thick pieces),Nutmeg,Black Salt,Black Pepper, Red Pepper and mix it very well.
5.Keep it aside for almost two weeks until it gets soft. Keep stirring it. Place it in clean/sterlized air tight Glass Jar. Relish this pickle with Parantha,Roti,or any meal.