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    Home » By Category » Chutneys & Condiments » Chutney~Pachadi

    Published: Oct 22, 2009 · Modified: Oct 2, 2020 by usha

    Lime Juice Pickle

    Nine months ago, when I went to India, mom had made this lime juice pickle/chutney. She use to prepare it very often when we were growing up had not made it in recent years. Usually amma makes it in small quantities as it is so easy and can be prepared whenever required, as limes are available year round. Yes, it i not lime pickle but lime juice pickle. This pickle is made with lime juice and no lime pieces, unlike the regular lime pickle. I brought some pickle back with me and it was sitting in the fridge for almost 8 months until 5 weeks ago. I ate it once in a while and U never touched. Last month, we were again on this eating healthy binge, which usually lasts only a few weeks. So during this binge, oatmeal was our breakfast, brown rice took over white rice, grilled fish and meats with steamed vegetables made it to our dining table everyday. Sadly, this binge only lasted 2 weeks as we had visitors and stopped out healthy diet binge.

    Anyways, during those 2 weeks, one day I mixed this lime pickle with my oatmeal and U wanted to try it too. Amma told me to temper this pickle before eating but since I was the only one eating it, I did not bother. U liked the fact that it has zero oil in it and tasted it. He fell in love with it and finished the pickle in a week.. 😮 There was very little, may be little less than 2 cups of pickle... nonetheless, he finished it in a week and ate it as a side dish with every meal. More than the taste, he liked the fact that this pickle did not have any oil in it 🙂

    I got the recipe from amma and made it again. The first time it was ok and we finished it too and couple of days ago I made it again and it came out better than the first try.

    Lime juice pickle

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    Ingredients:
    • List 1
      • 6 Limes juiced or 1 Cup Lime Juice
      • 1 teaspoon dry roasted Fenugreek seeds powder
      • 1 ½ teaspoon Mustard Seed Powder
      • 2 ½ tablespoon Salt (adjust to taste & I used Mortin Iodized Salt)
      • ¼ teaspoon Turmeric powder
    • List 2
      • 2 ½ tablespoon Chili Powder (adjust to taste)
      • 1 ½ tablespoon dry roasted Sesame Seed powder
    • Tempering
      • Oil
      • Cumin
      • Mustard
      • Dry Chilies
      • Curry Leaves
    Preparation:
    lime juice pickle
    • Mix the ingredients listed under list 1. Mix all the spices well so that there are no lumps in the lime juice. Let the spices and juice mixture ferment or sit for 3-4 days at room temperature. I only left it for a day.
    • On day 2, (mom said 4th or 5th day) mix the second list of ingredients to the juice mixture.
    • lime juice pickle
    • I was not going to temper the pickle but as I was going to take pictures for the blog, I tempered it :)In a pan take some oil and temper it with the ingredients listed for tempering.  I was out of curry leaves and did not use it today.
    • It can be served with rice, upma and makes tasteless oatmeal flavorful and eatable... 🙂
    • Stays good for at least 10 days at room temperature.  However, I refrigerated it after a week.
    lime juice pickle

    I am sending this over to Ammaji's Recipes, who is hosting her first blog event, Spicy Fiery Chutneys. What would be a better entry than this Lime Juice Pickle.  I also sending it to Pickles & Chutneys at Mom's Recipes

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    1. esaiselvi says

      November 16, 2009 at 10:57 am

      Never tried,Perfect match with curdrice

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    2. srividya says

      November 10, 2009 at 4:25 pm

      I almost forgot about this pickle! Thanks for reminding me. My mom used to make it when ever there are no veggies left @ home for cooking. I used to love the taste soo much that I wouldnt let it sit for a day or two for fermenting also. hehheeee Its been almost 7 yrs that I ate this pickle. Now today, I am gonna make this for dinner!!! 🙂

      This indeed is a saver when one is out of veggies. 🙂

      Reply
    3. Bhagi says

      October 31, 2009 at 8:10 pm

      Thanks for dropping by Usha.....
      my husband loves lemon pickle try chestanu....

      Reply
    4. Mona says

      October 29, 2009 at 1:18 pm

      Wow, never heard of Lime juice pickle! Looks effortless and yummy.
      One doubt - After adding the list 1 ingredients, do you leave the juice at room temperature to ferment? or in the refrigerator?
      Thanks in advance.

      Mona, leave at room temperature

      Reply
    5. notyet100 says

      October 27, 2009 at 9:58 am

      umm feel like licking this,..looks so yum,..

      Reply

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