Lemon - Dates Pickle

Ingredients

• • Lemons - 15
• • Date (seedless) - 50 grams
• • Rock salt - 3 tablespoons
• • Oil - ¼ cup
• • Mustard - ½ teaspoon
• • Sugar - ½ cup

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Ingredients For Grinding Together With Vinegar

• • Red chillies - 8
• • Garlic - 3 flakes
• • Fenugreek - ¼ teaspoon
• • Mustard seeds - ¼ teaspoon
• • Vinegar - 2 tablespoons

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Method

• 1. Select thin skinned and firm ripe lemon. Wash, wipe and spread on a cloth to remove excess moisture.
• 2. Cut into small squares.
• 3. Add rock salt, mix well and put it in a bottle.
• 4. Mix it once everyday for 15 days.
• 5. Chop dates into small pieces.
• 6. Mix sugar with little water and keep it on a stove in reduced flame. Stir well until it dissolves completely.
• 7. Remove from fire, add dates and ground paste.
• 8. Mix it with lemon pieces.
• 9. Heat oil in a pan add mustard, allow to splutter and pour over the pickle. Mix well.
• 10. Store it in a dry bottle. This pickle stays good for 6 months.

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Note

• • Those who need more sweetness can add 1 cup sugar instead of using ½ cup sugar to prepare this pickle.