Neer Nellikai Recipe with step by step pictures. Gooseberries has innumerable health benefits,so include it in any form in your regular diet. This tastes best with curd rice.

Neer Nellikai Recipe

I love making pickles, because they transform any simple meal into a tasty one. Whenever i dont have time to make lunch, i used to have a pile of rice, curd and pickles..YUM YUM..

Ingredients for Neer Nellikai

Gooseberry - 15 to 20
Water as needed to cover the gooseberry
Salt to taste
Sugar - 1 tbsp
Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi - ½ tsp

For Seasoning:

Oil - 2 tsp
Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi - ¼ tsp

For Roasting and Grinding:

Fenugreek Seeds / Vendayam / Methi - ½ tsp
Dry Red Chillies - 6 to 8
Kashmiri Dry Red Chilli - 6 to 8

This pickle is my all time favourite. Grandma used to make this. But she dont add those spice powders, she make it with ginger, green chilli and gooseberry which is covered with water and salt. YUM YUM..

This pickle is so tasty, the water from the pickle is more tasty. I can drink it all by itself ..

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

How to Make Neer Nellikai

Take the roasting ingredients in a pan and roast till golden. Take it in a blender and powder them.
Take gooseberry in a pot and cover with water. Add in salt and turmeric. bring it to a boil.
Add in the powdered mix and sugar. Mix well and boil once more. Turn off the heat.
Now make seasoning by heating oil and crackling mustard and asafoetida in it.
Pour this over the gooseberry and mix well.
Let this cool down. Now store this in a clean bottle in fridge.

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Neer Nellikai Recipe

Neer Nellikai Recipe with step by step pictures. Gooseberries has innumerable health benefits,so include it in any form in your regular diet. This tastes best with curd rice.

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 15

Total Time 25

Course Pickles

Cuisine Indian

Servings servings

Calories 7 kcal

Equipment

Cooking pot
Glass Bottle

Ingredients

20 no Gooseberry
3 cups Water as needed to cover the gooseberry
1 tablespoon Salt
1 tablespoon Sugar
½ teaspoon Turmeric Powder

For tempering

2 teaspoon Oil
1 teaspoon Mustard Seeds
¼ teaspoon Asafoetida / Hing

For Roasting and Grinding

½ teaspoon Fenugreek Seeds / Vendayam / Methi
8 no Dry Red Chillies
8 no Kashmiri Dry Red Chilli

Instructions

Take the roasting ingredients in a pan and roast till golden. Take it in a blender and powder them.
Take gooseberry in a pot and cover with water. Add in salt and turmeric. bring it to a boil.
Add in the powdered mix and sugar. Mix well and boil once more.
Turn off the heat. Now make seasoning by heating oil and crackling mustard and asafoetida in it.
Pour this over the gooseberry and mix well.
Let this cool down. Now store this in a clean bottle in fridge.

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Notes

Always use clean spoon and bottle while handling this pickle.
This pickle stays good for more than 10 to 15 days in fridge.

Nutrition

Serving: 1servingsCalories: 7kcalCarbohydrates: 1gProtein: 0.1gFat: 0.5gSaturated Fat: 0.04gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.1gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.3gTrans Fat: 0.002gSodium: 351mgPotassium: 6mgFiber: 0.1gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 7IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 2mgIron: 0.1mg

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