Soyabeans and Tomatoes Pickles

Mixing fruit and vegetables to make a pickle is very common. There are times we mix grains on the vegetables and fruits to make pickles. However, there seems to be no rules when it comes to making pickles. I like that line from the famous TV chef Nigella Lawson, which she keep repeating in her show, if it taste good then eat it.  Soybean is one of the grain which is very beneficial for health reason but apart from that its one of the grains which adds flavours to pickle. And this taste good if we combine it with tomatoes to make a pickles. This pickle is more suitable for Mo: Mo: than rice, roti or beaten rice.

Ingredients :

Soybeans                :        100 grams

Tomatoes               :        eight to ten piece

Salt                        :        As per the taste

Fresh Chili              :        three or four nos

Garlic                     :        about four clove

Timur                     :        5 or six piece

How to convert these ingredients into a tasty pickle ?

• Roast soybean in a heavy pan and roll it on the pan constantly. 
• When the bean"smiles" or its skin cracks up its done the roasting process.
• Keep it aside to cool down.
• When the beans are cooling down boil tomatoes.
• remove the skin of tomatoes before you put it in mixture. 
• Now roll a mortar using your strong hands over the beans to remove the skin out it. 
• When all the outer skin are removed then put the beans with the tomatoes on the mixture along with chili, salt, garlic.
• Grind timur separately for better taste and flavour 
• Let it soak for about ten minutes with the juice of tomatoes before you run the mixture.
• Add some water if you have to make its fine paste, before you serve.

Now, your pickle is ready.

Tomatoes Pickle

Good news to all tomato lovers around the world, is tomato is one of that fruit which is available around the year. Needless to tell you, we prefer to make its pickles every time we eat rice and dal regardless of season. When it comes to choice of tomatoes I would like to suggest you to go for tomatoes that are of smaller in size, make sure it is bigger than cherry tomatoes. Pickle taste a lot better, if; tomatoes are smaller. The superior taste of pickle makes us feel tomatoes from colloer area are much better in its flavour than the tomatoes from hotter part of the country.  

Nepali, be they here in Nepal or any part of the world loves tomatoes pickle. Everyone has their own way to give it a unique taste that makes it their own recipe. When it will be ready, you will fall in love with the tasty mix of juice of the picke than the ingredients of it.   

Ingredients :

Tomatoes : 300 grams

Fresh green chili   : four to five nos

Red chili powder  : one teaspoon

Garlic : 5 nos

Ginger : one small piece

Salt : as per taste

Turmeric powder : 1/3 teaspoon

Mustard Powder : one and one half of teaspoon

Sunflower Oil : 2 tablespoon

How to convert the ingredients into pickle ?

• Clean tomatoes and cut each one into six to eight pieces.  
• Peel garlic and then chop it finely.
• Clean and chop ginger also.
• Cut three of the fresh chili in two or three places only. 
• Chop one or two of the fresh chili in small round shape.
• Put all the chopped tomatoes, chili, ginger, garlic and and salt, in one big and clean bowl. 
• Add mustard powder, turmeric also in the mixed ingredients.
• Put two tablespoon of oil in the bowl.
• Fill a clean and dry bottle with the mixed ingredients.
• Keep the bottle under sun for four to five days and it will be ready to eat in sixth day.

Now your pickle will be ready in two days only!

Note : Keep the bottle in the fridge that way you can use it for couple of months once its ready to consume.   

This recipe is shared by Suchita Joshi. She is a mother of a girl and a food lover and as she says cooking is her favorite time pass. Like my many other contributors in this site, she too, belongs to a Newar community, who are recognized for their culinary skill; as they have found the secret art to tease the taste buds of gourmet. Its been more than a decade that she is living in Canada with her husband and a child. Her husband not coming from the same community, and yet in the food industry, I hope she brings unique taste to the table.

Tamarind Pickle

When I was a teenager tamarind pickles was my favourite pickle, as it did not need much time to prepare, not it needed much skill also. What more it was faster to make it. At that time during its season, it was easy to buy it from the market,  I do not remember the price but it was affordable even to my wallet which had holes in many places. Nowadays, it's not that easily available in market like before yet you can get it when you look for it. 

Tamarind is a hardwood tree known scientifically as Tamarindus indica. It's native to Africa but also grows in India, Pakistan and many other tropical regions. The tree produces bean-like pods filled with seeds surrounded by a fibrous pulp. The pulp of the young fruit is green and sour.Healthline

Ingredients : 

amarind                :     200 grams

Salt                       :     one teaspoon
Green chili            :     one teaspoon

Timur                    :     3 piece

Sugar                    :    one cup or 200 gram

How to convert these ingredients into a pickle ? 

• Separate tamarind pulp and also remove the long, fiber like thread from it then keep it in a clean and dry bowl. 
• Grind green chili to make it into past and put it in a bowl.
• Put salt in the bowl.
• Also put all the sugar in it.
• You can use your hand if you are young and if not then use wood or plastic spatula to mix the ingredients in the bowl. 
• Taste it, if you find its taste sharper for your tongue then add more chili, salt and sugar to blend the taste suitable to your palate.

Now, your pickle is ready.