HARFI - KA - AACHAR - Star Gooseberries Pickle

My bro had sent across a star gooseberry plant to a colleague of mine as gift, the plant grew into a lovely fruiting tree and today i made pickle out of the gooseberries from this tree…My bro is major trilled.

Gooseberries Pickle

Ingredients :

• Star gooseberries : 500gms
• Green chillies – 4
• oil- 3 tbsp
• Fenugreek- 2 tsps
• Cumin seeds- 2 tsps
• Asafoetida – 3/4 tsps
• Mustard seeds- 1 tsp
• Curry leaves- 2 springs
• Chill powder : 2 tbsps
• Turmeric powder: 1 tsp
• Garlic flake – 10 flakes
• Red chillies- 2
• salt: as per taste ( 1 1/2 used 1 tbsp)

Method :

Soaking : This is optional

1. Wash the gooseberries and wipe them dry.
2. Add them to a glass bottle or jar
3. Mix half tb spoon salt
4. slit two green chillies and mix well
5. cover the container and leave in sun for two days.

In case you don’t have time to do the above procedure, then wash gooseberries and leave them in hot water for 30mins before mixing in the pickle paste.

1. Roast cumins and fenugreek slightly in a griddle, cool and powder.
2. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds and let them splutter,green chillies, red chillies and fry crisp and remove from the oil and  make a paste of them
3. In same oil add curry leaves, asafoetida, turmeric powder, chilli paste, red chilli powder mix well ( do this on reduced flame, so that the chilli powder does not burn)
4.  Add the soaked gooseberries to the paste and fry till the water from goose berries evaporates and remove from the flame.
5. Add salt as per taste and mix well.
6. Bottle the pickle.

This can be had with hot steamed rice or roti.

Gooseberries being added to pickle sauce

gooseberry pickle