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Indian Pickles -- What are they made of and flavored with?

 
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RobNYNY1957
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PostPosted: Fri May 09, 2008 3:30 pm    Post subject: Indian Pickles -- What are they made of and flavored with? Reply with quote

When I eat in Indian restaurant, there is usally a small condiment bowl of something that is usually called "pickles". Greenish vegetables in a sticky sauce, sometimese with some hard vegetable material pieces, with an indescribable flavor, like nothing else I have ever tasted. Small amounts of it are enough to flavor quite a bit of food. It's not peppery, it's not really sour. I just don't know how to describe the taste (metallic)? Does anyone know what it is made of and how it is flavored?
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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rob, it is difficult to say which pickle you are talking about from your description, but here are a few thoughts.

Many Indian pickles use lime juce/salt as a preservative, but quite a few use oil as well. This is often mustard oil, and when combined with lime juice and heated with spices, forms an emulsion-like fluid, inwhich the vegetables/fruits are matured.

Pickles of this kind may be made with limes, mango (the small unripe green kind) gunda (very small mango?) chillies and some are mixed veg/fruit. The result, after 4 weeks maturation is slightly sour, usually chilli hot and highly spiced with mustard seed and fenugreek seed.

Let me know if you want a recipe to 'roll yur own'.
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