Salted Leamon

Ingredients

Leamon

salt

turmeric powder

Preparation

Boil some water with some salt and cool it.

Boil lemon for 10 to 15 minuts with salt and turmeric powder.

let it cool .Remove the leamon from water and put it in above salt water,lemon can be stored like this for long period of time

we can also use this lemon for making pickles simply by adding chilli powder and hig

Valan Puli Achchar (Pickle)

Ingredients

• Valan Puli (?) (10 numbers)
  
• Dried red chillies (20 numbers)
• Mustard seeds (1/2 teaspoon)
• Methi (Fenugreek) seeds (1/2 teaspoon)
• Gingelly Oil (2 teaspoon)
• Salt (as required)

Procedure:

• Remove the sharp edges of the valan puli and cut into long pieces (6 pieces each from one puli).
• Apply salt on the pieces as required and keep aside overnight.
• Dry the pieces under sun for a day and saute in a little oil under low flame for 1 minutes (keep stirring). Keep it aside for cooling (Take care not to add any waterdrops in this, or else the pickle would get damaged easily).
  
  
  
  
  
• Take mustard seeds and methi seeds in a pan, and saute in very little oil under low flame methi seeds become brown in color. Keep aside.
• Take the dry chillies and saute with very little oil under low flame until they are little brownish - Keep stirring to avoid them from overcooked.
• Mix the sauted methi, mustard and chillies and grind in a mixie to a very smooth dry powder. 
• Mix it with the valan puli prepared earlier, and add additional salt as per your requirements.
• Your pickle is ready!

Note: With the above mentioned ingredients, you would be able to make around 1/2 cup of pickle.