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Indian gooseberries have two varieties, once is small called nellikai or chinna nellikai and the other is big. This big one is called Amla in Hindi and Periya nellikai in Tamil. Both nellikai are rich in vitamin C which is very essential in building our immune system and its health benefits are amazing. As I'm a pickle freek I love to make my own pickle. This is the first attempt I tried Amla or Periya Nellikai pickle and it turned yummy. This is one of easiest pickle recipe. Time consumed for me is just under 30 minutes. Here is the step by step procedure. Ingredients Amala 15 Nos Gingelly oil 1 cup Roasted fenugreek powder  2 tbsp Chilly Powder 2 tbsp Salt as required Mustard 1 tbsp  Fresh Curry Leaves  1 hand full Garlic cloves - 10 Nos Asafoetida - 1/2 tea spoon Procedure Hand pick good quality and fresh amlas or periya nellikai. Wash them nicely in running water and give them a pat dry. Steam cook the amlas / periya nellikai for 10 m...

Tomato Pickle Tomato dishes is my all time favorite. My mom makes this amazing tomato pickle. This is her recipe. Last time when I'm in native we harvested lots of native variety tomato from our farm. I can't express the amazing taste of it straight from farm.  After seeing lot of fresh tomatoes, I immediately made plans to make pickle by self with mom overseeing it. It goes well with hot rice, idly, dosa, upma, chappati, curd rice etc. Our family eat this thokku with almost everything in all my meals   Ingredients Tomato - 3kg Gingly oil - 0.5 ltr Fresh curry leaves - one handful  Tamarind - 1 lemon size Fenugreek - 3 table spoon Chilli powder - as per taste. I used 6 table spoon. Turmeric powder - 1tea spoon Salt as per taste Mustard - 3 table spoon Garlic - 3 whole pods (Optional) Ginger - small finger length (Optional)   Preparation Wash tomatoes in running water and let it dry completely. I spread tomatoes on a cott...