Sweet and Sour Cauliflower Pickle

Ingredients

• • Cauliflowers (finely chopped) - 8 cups
• • Mustard oil - 1 cup
• • Salt - ½ cup
• • Red chilly powder - 2 tablespoons
• • Mustard powder - ¼ cup
• • Cumin seeds powder - 2 teaspoons
• • Garlic (peeled) - 20 flakes
• • Dates (chopped, seedless) - ½ cup
• • Blanched almond - 50 grams
• • Ginger powder (dry) - 2 teaspoons
• • Cinnamon powder - 1 teaspoon
• • Clove powder - 1 teaspoon
• • White vinegar small bottle - 1
• • Jaggery (grated) - ½ cup

Method

• 1. Wash cauliflower in water, to which little salt is added.
• 2. Heat water in a large vessel.
• 3. When it starts boiling, add cauliflower pieces to that and switch off the stove.
• 4. Keep closed for 2 minutes, and then strain it.
• 5. Spread cauliflower pieces over a cloth to dry up moisture. (Keep atleast for 5 to 6 hours in shade)
• 6. Heat oil and allow to cool.
• 7. Dissolve grated jaggery in vinegar (Do not heat)
• 8. Mix cauliflower pieces with all the mentioned ingredients and powders. Finally mix jaggery vinegar mixture.
• 9. Add cooled oil at the end and shake well.
• 10. Pickle can be served from very next day.