Pumpkin Pickle

Pickles can be made from vegetables, fruit, spices, herb and more. Pumpkin is one such vegetable that can be converted into pickle. Good news is during its season pumpkin is available abundantly in the market. Although pumpkin pickle is not that usual type of vegetable unlike other vegetables but there are people who like its pickles. Here is one recipe if you like sweet pickle as this is [October] the time of the year you can have ripe pumpkin  in your kitchen garden or in the market.

What do you need to make its pickles ?

Ingredients :

Pumpkin                    :  400 gram

Sesame seed             : Three tablespoon

Salt                            :  as per taste

Hot Chili                     : four nos

Lemon                       : two medium size

Fenugreek seeds       : half teaspoon

turmeric powder       : half teaspoon

Asafoetida                 : one pinch

Sunflower Oil             : two table spoon

What you have to do it to convert it into pickle ? 

• Peel and chop pumpkins into small pieces.
• Boil it on a pressure cooker and wait for three whistle before you off the gas. When you boil it put only a cup of water.
• Onces its boiled then mash it using fork or clean hand.
• Roast sesame seed, sesame seeds needs to be roasted dry without using any fat or oil.
• put sesame seeds on mixture and then run the mixture. add some water to get its thick paste. when its done add chili also and run a mixture one more time for 15 sec only.
• Put all the ingredients into a bowl and mix it well.
• Now put a pan over a gas and heat the oil. When the oil is hot enough put fenugreek seeds on it. Wait until it turns total black. 
• Turn off the gas. 
• Put the hing [ asafoetida ] and turmeric on it, and pour the hot oil on the bowl where pumpkin is. Put a lid on the bowl for about a minute or two.
•  Now squeeze two lemon over it and mix it one more time. 

 Now, your pumpkin pickle is ready !   

Note :

1. Pumpkin is sweet by nature which require more salt and chili to get our desired tangy and tasty pickle.

Roasted Tymmator Pickle

In South America it may be called Tamarillo but here in Nepal we call this tymmator. According to the Wikipedia tymmmator is called tamarillo, its full definition for this tree and fruit is like this, "The tamarillo is a small tree or shrub in the flowering plant family Solanaceae (the nightshade family). It is best known as the species that bears the tamarillo, an egg fruit.^[2] It is also known as the tree tomato,^[3] tamamoro, and tomate de árbol din South America." 

This fruit is available in the market during October and November. I am sure you love it's pickle as it tastes tangy and acidic just like tomato, which is unripe. It takes only about 10-12 minutes to prepare this pickle.

Ingredients :

Tymmator      :  3 nos

Chili                :  2 nos

Garlic             :  2 cloves

Salt                :  As per taste

Timur             :  five piece only

How to convert it into pickle ?

• All you have to do is to roast three  tymmator. 
• When you roast it, roast chili and garlic also with it. 
• When its skin cracks up, peel the skin.
• Peel garlic skin too. 
• Grind timur before hand as its too small and takes time to grind.  
• Now, put everything on mixture and run it for about 20 seconds only.

Pour it in a small bowl and put some salt on it and mix it with a clean spoon.

Now, your pickle is ready ! 

Sweet Amala Pickle

Amala [ goose berry ] is very very rich in vitamin C and iron. Its really good for cold. Some ancient Indian medicine puts amala in very high list for its good health benefits. Consumption of this also good for your throat and hair also. It is believed that this strengthen your hair and it also makes our hair black and strong. 

 
This small sour, acidic fruit is available in the market during the month of October and November. Its time in the market is very short I mean one day you see it and next time you go looking for it you cant find it in the market. So, when you see it buy it and enjoy making its pickle and preserve it as much as you can.

Ingredients 

Amala                       :  two kg [ 2000 gram]
Green Chili                :  200 gram
Sugar                        :  1000 gram
Annis seed [Sauf]      :  two teaspoon
Fenugreek Seed        :  one teaspoon
Sea Salt                     :  two teaspoon
Black [rock ] Salt       :  one and half teaspoon 
Turmeric powder       :  Half teaspoon
sunflower oil              :  2-3 table spoon [ 75 ml]


How to convert these ingredients into a pickle ?

• Clean Amala and boil it  in a pressure cooker. When you hear one whistle then put gas on low heat and after another two whistle gas off. When you boil it put only one cup of water [ 275 ml ] on it and a teaspoon of sea salt. 
• Mash it with fork or you can use your hand too. 
• Remove pits from it, if you do not like its pit. But, if like to suck its pit when you enjoy the sweet pickle when you are working on your computer or basking in the sun.
• Clean and chop green chilies. You can make its paste also.
• In another pan heat oil. Put fenugreek seeds on it, when its color is light brown then add annis seeds [ Sauf ] and wait until both color turns into golden brown. Darker the better.
• Put turmeric powder in it.
• Add green chili in the pan and stir it for about three minutes.
• Add sugar in it and stir it properly until it melts well.
• Add the mashed amala in it.
• Cook it for about ten minutes with lid on, so that; Amala soaks all the sugar and salt into it. 

Now your Sweet Amala pickle is ready !

Note : 

1. When you cook it use hard anodized cookware instead of other metal vessel. Sour and acidic fruit are not good in all type of metal to cook.
2. This is a fresh pickle which can be ready to eat once its cools down but you can also put it in bottle and use it for about a month. 
3. Unlike other pickles this not something you can enjoy with rice. You can enjoy this tasty and delicious pickle when you work in computer or bask in the sun or feel sleepy during day time. 

Potato and Cucumber Pickle

One of the best part of potato is its available around the year and you can choose any potato if you want to make its pickles. Here is one of the most easiest method to make a potato and cucumber pickle. 

What you need to prepare a pickle like this ?

Ingredients :

Potatoes                                                 : 400 grams

Cucumber                                              : two small size cucumber or 200 grams

green chili                                              : 5  nos

Onion                                                     : one medium size

Chuk [concentrated acidic fruit juice ]   : 15 gram or two lemon juice

Salt                                                         : as per the taste

Sesame                                                  : two table spoon

How to convert all these ingredients into a tasty and delicious pickle ?

Chuk

• Boil potato and keep it aside.
• When it cools down peel it.
• After that cut it into four or six piece of each potato. 
• Clean cucumber and cut it into small size matching the size of potatoes.
• Chop onion and chili.
• Roast sesame and then make its powder. 
• Put all the ingredients into one bowl and then mix it.
• Taste the pickle for its seasoning. If you think some thing needs to be added then fix it at this time, like adding salt, chili or chuk.

Now, your pickle is ready !