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Banarasi Red Chilli Pickle Recipe
How to make Banarasi Red Chilli Pickle
Red chillies stuffed with dry roasted spices, lemon juice and mustard oil. This Banarasi-style red chilli pickle is spicy, fiery and makes for the perfect accompaniment for your Indian meals.
- Total Cook Time 40 mins
- Prep Time 10 mins
- Cook Time 30 mins
- Recipe Servings4
- Easy
Ingredients of Banarasi Red Chilli Pickle
- 15 Large red chiillies
- 2 tbsp Mustard seeds
- 3 tbsp Fennel seeds
- 2 tbsp Fenugreek seeds
- 2 tbsp Cumin seeds
- 7-8 Black peppercorns
- 1/4 tsp Asafetida
- 1/2 tbsp Turmeric powder
- 3 tbsp Mango powder
- to taste Salt
- 1 cup Mustard oil
- Juice of 2 lemons
How to Make Banarasi Red Chilli Pickle
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Wash the red chillies, let them dry, remove their stems and deseed them.
2.
Make slits in the middle of the chillies with a knife.
3.
Dry roast all the whole spices and let them cool down. Grind into a coarse powder.
4.
Add salt, spice powders, lemon juice and around 4 tbsp of heated and cooled mustard oil. Mix well.
5.
Stuff the masala powder in the chillies and store in a glass jar. Pour rest of the mustard oil.
6.
Keep in sunlight for 5-6 days to mature.