Grandma's Chilli & Tamarind Pickle Recipe with step by step pictures. This pickle recipe is hot, tangy and a little sweet to taste.
Grandma's Chilli & Tamarind Pickle
This is my all time favourite one, it is sweet, salty, tangy and spicy all in one bowl. Love it so much with curd rice, but i enjoying just dipping a spoon into the sauce and licking it. It is really finger licking good..Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it
turns out for you..
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Ingredients for Chilli & Tamarind Pickle
- Chillies - ½ kg (i used a small variety of banana pepper, you can use any mild spicy chilli)
- Tamarind - around 1 cup
- Jaggery / Sarkarai - 1 cup grated
- Salt to taste
- Water around 2 to 3 cups
How to Make Chilli & Tamarind Pickle
- Take tamarind in a bowl, cover with water, let it soak for 30 mins.
- Now squeeze it and drain the liquid, add more water to the tamarind and extract more juice.
- Now wash and drain the chillies.
- Take them in a large pot. Add in tamarind water, cover and cook till the chillies are half cooked
- Now add in jaggery and continue cooking till it get thick.
- Keep cooking till it gets really thick.
- Once it is thick, take it off the heat and add in salt. Mix well.
- Leave the mix to cool down, store in air tight container in fridge.
- This can be stored for a month in fridge.
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Grandma's Chilli & Tamarind Pickle Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- ½ kg Chillies i used a small variety of banana pepper, you can use any mild spicy chilli
- 1 cup Tamarind
- 1 cup Jaggery / Sarkarai grated
- 1 tablespoon Salt
- 3 cups Water
Instructions
- Take tamarind in a bowl, cover with water, let it soak for 30 mins. Now squeeze it and strain the liquid, add more water to the tamarind and extract more juice.
- Now wash and drain the chillies.
- Take them in a large pot. Add in tamarind water, cover and cook till the chillies are half cooked. Now add in jaggery and continue cooking till it get thick. Keep cooking till it gets really thick. Once it is thick, take it off the heat and add in salt. Mix well.
- Leave the mix to cool down, store in an air tight container in fridge. This can be stored for a month in fridge.
Nutrition
Grandma's Chilli & Tamarind Pickle Recipe Step by Step
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| Take a good amount of tamarind in a bowl |
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| cover with water..Let it sit for 15 mins so the tamarind soften |
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| squeeze well |
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| Strain and set aside..this is tamarind juice |
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| This is the chilli variety which grandma uses.. You can use any chillies which is mildly spicy |
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| wash them well.. |
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| drain them |
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| add it to a pot |
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| cover with the tamarind juice |
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| pop a lid over it and cook |
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| cook till the chillies are half cooked |
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| now add in a good amount of tamarind |
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| mix well and keep cooking |
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| It will get thick and thicker |
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| now the mix has got really thick. take it off the heat |
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| add in salt |
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| mix well |
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| Let it cool down, then store it in a container in fridge. |
Nila Abdul
Pickle looks very yummy ...will try dis soon
Nila Abdul
Pickle looks very yummy....will try this soon....https://nilascuisine.blogspot.ae/?m=1