Royal Ginger Pickle ( Adrak Ka Shahi Achar )

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Namaskar...

I am Sangeeta Agarwal and heartily welcome you at my food blog.

# "Sweet Ginger Pickle" is a very delicious and healthy Pickle recipe. It will not only enhance the taste and flavour of your food but also will help in the digestion of your food.

#  Ginger is among the healthiest and most delicious spices on the planet. It contains 'Gingerol', a substance with powerful medicinal properties.
It reduces muscle pain and osteoarthritis.

#  Ginger also helps in constipation and weight loss. Due to its unique benefits and flavour ginger is added in almost all the food.
Chutney, Curry, soups etc.are incomplete without ginger.

# Ginger is much used in the monsoon ( rainy season ) and winter. ...and this is the best time for Ginger Pickle because
Pickled ginger or young ginger is available in the market during these seasons.

# The sign of the young ginger is that its skin is very thin, tender, easy to peel and has a fine fleshly texture.
It is found in very light brown and pink colour.

# Let us start the recipe of "Royal Ginger Pickle".....

#  Prep Time....25 minutes
#  Cook Time...7 minutes
#  Total Time...25 to 30 minutes

#  Ingredients for "Sweet Ginger Pickle"...

1. Fresh ginger....150 gram
2. Fresh Lemon....250 gram
3. Sugar....250 gram
4. Dates dried...60 gram ( chhuhaara )
5. Raisins....30 gram
6. Rock salt...1 Tea spoon
7. Black salt....1 Tea spoon
8. Coarsed black pepper....1/2 Tea spoon
9. Roasted cumin powder...1 Table spoon
10. Red chili powder...1/2 Tea spoon
11. Garam masala....1/2 Tea spoon
12. Asafoetida....1/2 pinch

#  Method Of Making...

1. Firstly, wash and clean the dirt of ginger in the flowing water and wipe out with a clean cotton fabric.
Wash and clean the lemons also in the same way.

2. Let it dry under the fan for 2 hours or overnight.

3. Now peel or scratch it slightly with the help of a knife, spoon or peeler.

4. Cut the ginger in stripes length wise and again place it under the fan for sometime so that if there is any moisture left out...could remove.
( Don't make it dry in the sunlight )

5. Wash and clean the raisins ( kishmish ) and dried dates ( chhuhaara ) in the water placing in a strainer.

6. Spread out the raisins on a cotton cloth under the fan for some time.

7. Then place the chhuhaara in a pressure cooker on the high flame with 200 ml.water.
Let it boil till one whistle and 5 minutes more on slow flame.
Let it pressure down by itself.

8. Meanwhile take out the juice of all lemons by squeezing them with the help of your hands or with the help of a lemon squeezer.

9. Transfer all the juice of lemons in a big glass bowl or cheeni mitti bowl ( martvan ) for making the ginger Pickle.

10. Now drain out the boiled chhuhaara in a strainer.
Let it cool completely under the fan.
Then remove its cap and cut it into thin strips length wise like ginger.

11. Keep ready all the spices like... rock salt, black salt, black pepper, red chili powder, asafoetida, garam masala, roasted cumin powder, measured sugar etc

12. Now everything is ready for making the delicious pickle of ginger.
Just transfer all the ingredients in the lemons juice one by one and mix well or toss it.

13. Cover the Pickle with a plate or with its lid.
After few hours stir or toss the Pickle again so that all the spices and sugar will dissolve in the ginger well.

In this way, "Royal Pickle of ginger" is ready to enjoy.

Just place it in the sunlight ( Dhoop ) for 3 days if available at your home... otherwise leave it in a dry place and stir it two times a day for 3 days only.

You can eat it from the next day with roti, Parantha, poori and mathri.

This Pickle of ginger can go long till a year on the room temperature.

#  Note....

1. For any pickle...all ingredients should be fresh. It will enhance the taste and self life of Pickle.

2. Much better if Pickle jar is of glass or cheeni mitti martvan.
It should be well cleaned with boiling water and dried in the sunlight.

3. You can add or less all ingredients as your taste and choice.

4. With the squeezed peels of lemons, you can make another delicious and healthy Pickle of lemon...that is called....
" Neembu ke chilkon ka Achar" or just put these lemons peel in your drinking water for few hours.....and enjoy this flavoured and healthy water.

Thanku Friends,
Thanks again.