Hot and sour tomato pickle
Hot and sour tomato pickle recipe in the curry category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 pound green or red tomatoes
- 15 to 20 red chillies
- 1 cup chopped ginger
- 1 cup chopped garlic
- 2 cups vinegar
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 tablespoon mustard seeds
- 1 teaspoon fenugreek
- 1 1/2 cups oil
- Salt to taste
Recipe method:
- Slice the tomaotes, smear turmeric and salt on them and soak them in 1 cup vinegar. Leave for about 2 hours.
- Blend together the garlic, ginger, red chillies and 3/4 of the mustard, with a little vinegar.
- Heat the oil and add the remaining mustard.
- When the mustard crackles, add the fenugreek.
- Fry for 2 minutes and then add the blended mixture and fry well for over 20 minutes.
- Add the tomatoes and the remaining vinegar.
- Stir continuously as the mixture comes to a boil.
- When the pickle is almost done, the oil begins to float at the top.
- Take it off the heat and let it cool.
- Store in a clean bottle.
- Will keep for a year.