Indian Pickles - Homemade Recipes

Get Recipes for making Tasty Indian Pickles at Home easy way.

Get Recipes for making Tasty Indian Pickles at Home easy way.

This is a list of common Indian pickles, which have a wide range of flavours and textures. Indian pickles are generally pickled with oil, vinegar, lemon juice or water. Indian pickles are often made into fresh relish and chutney, which provides additional flavours to food. Many types of foods in Indian cuisine are pickled. Mangoes, gooseberries and lemons are examples of foods that are commonly pickled in Indian cuisine.

A dish termed "Indian pickle" may include cabbage, cauliflower, carrot, french beans (green beans), onion, radishes, gherkins, celery, garlic and other foods.

Best Pickle Recipes

Pickle making is an ancient tradition in India which has been loved and followed by or mothers and grandmothers. The Western world regards it as the art of preservation or fermentation but for us it is a creation of a unique accompaniment that goes with every meal. We all have grown up eating delicious, crunchy and tangy pickles made by our grandmothers and mothers.

No meal is complete without them. Spicy green chilli pickles, mango pickles tossed with fenugreek and cardamom, bright yellow cauliflower pickles – you name it! In most Indian households, it is a common sight to find big glass jars filled with freshly made pickles sitting on a sunny window sill. It is a method of developing the flavors and letting them mature.

Over the years, however, the art of pickle making at home is slowly fading with mass produced variants readily available in the stores these days. But, they miserably fail to match up to the rustic flavors characteristic of the home-made pickles.

Lip-Smacking South Indian Pickles You Need to Try.

Pickles are deep rooted in our culture and have the wonderful ability of taking us back in time. I still remember the large porcelain jaadis (jars) of Avakaya (mango) pickle that would arrive every summer from my father’s ancestral village in the West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh. Pickles would be stored either in these jaadis (they’re called bharanis in Kerala) or in stone containers in our ancestral home with wooden spoons.

List of Pickles

Amla pickle

Assorted pickle

Carrot pickle

Garlic pickle

Green chili pickle

Indian pickle

Onion pickle

Raw mango and chickpea pickle

Red chili pickle

Sweet mango pickle

Sweet sour lemon pickle

Tomato pickle

Coconut pickle and More

No Indian meal is completed without a tangy pickle. Because of its distinctive and rich taste, Indian pickles are sought after side dishes. The specialty of these Indian condiments is that these suit every palate, be it hot, sour, salty or sweet. Although most Indian condiments tend to be soaring, you can find sweet varieties as well.

Pickles in United States are vinegar based whereas Indian pickles are usually prepared with mustard oil or sesame oil. Other ingredients like turmeric, salt, fenugreek provide more shelf life for Indian pickles even without refrigeration. Most of the Indian families make pickles or occur during the summer for the coming months. Many families possess secret recipes passed on from generations.

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