Amla ( Nellikai / Gooseberry ) Pickle Recipe

Today, let me post an additional recipe to the pickle section of KitchenMasti which is very nutritious and healthy.  It is a pickle prepared out of amla or gooseberry or nellikayi. It is believed that amla has many medicinal values which helps delaying the aging process, delaying wrinkles and prevents premature greying of hair. Nowadays, it is quite common to see younger generation with grey hair, so, regular intake of amla may be quite helpful. To prepare amla pickle, you have to prepare a pickle powder which I have already published in one of my previous blog posts. Here you will have to mix the amla with the pickle powder and use it whenever necessary.

How To Prepare Amla ( Nellikai / Gooseberry ) Pickle.

The ingredients mentioned here yields around 1 / 4 kg of pickle.

Ingredients For Amla Pickle.

• Amla ( gooseberry )  - 10

• Water  - 4 cups.

• Asafoetida - 2 pinches.

• Oil  - 2 tbsp

• Turmeric powder - 1 / 2 tsp.

• Pickle Powder - 3 - 4 tbsp.

• Salt  - 5 tbsp.

Method to Make Amla Pickle.

• Wash the gooseberries thoroughly.

• Heat a vessel filled with 5 cups of water and salt till it reaches its boiling point.

• When the water starts bubbling, add the amlas and.lower the flame to sim mode.

• Switch off the flame after 2 minutes and close the vessel with a lid.

• Wait till the water completely cools.

• Take a mixing bowl and add the required amount ( 6 - 7 tbsp ) of pickle powder to it.

• Remove all the amlas from the salt water.

• As the amlas have turned soft by now, try to remove the seeds by just chopping it into two or three pieces.

• Add all the chopped pieces in to the bowl. 

• Now, pour in little salt water which we had initially prepared to the pickle powder to get a liquid consistency.

• Meanwhile, heat a small pan with oil in it and add asafoetida in to it.

• Once the oil gets heated, transfer the oil into the pickle bowl.

• Finally, add turmeric powder and mix it well.

You hot and spicy Amla Pickle is now ready.!!!

KitchenMasti Points 

1. You can increase or decrease the pickle powder as per your requirements.
2. Initially, pour little quantity of salt water to pickle powder. Stir it well and add additional salt water only if you feel necessary, or else the pickle might turn out to be very watery.
3. See to it that you do not dampen or wet your hands throughout the pickling process or else the watery content may lead to the development of fungus.

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