Pickled goose berry / ooresina usiri kaaya

This pickled goose berry / ooresina usiri kaaya/ Neeru Nellikkai  is very easy to prepare and it tastes wonderful. I love this very much. I am sure that you too will love it  !! You can even have this with dal rice.

I always been excited from my childhood, that after eating gooseberry, if we drink water, the water tastes too sweet !! So why not try drinking water after eating goose berry . 

Aamla / goose berry is eaten raw or cooked into various dishes. In Andhra Pradesh, tender varieties are used to prepare dal, and amle ka muabbah, is a sweet dish indigenous to the northern part of India, where in the berries are soaked in sugar syrup for a long time till they are imparted the sweet flavour; it is traditionally consumed after meals.

Preparation time : 5 mins + one week

Ingredients :

Goose berry : 12
Turmeric : 1/4 tsp
Hing/ Asafotida : 1/4 tsp
Dried red chili : 6
Salt : as per taste
Water : 3 - 4 cups

Method :

Wash and dry goose berry's throughly.
Cut red chili into pieces.
Take a jar, add goose berry's, water, salt, turmeric, hing and red chili pieces.
Taste the water, it should be little more salty than you want, as goose berry pickles it absorbs that salt and chili and becomes sooooo tasty.

After one week you are ready to eat your pickled goose berry.
When ever you are taking an aamla you should use clean dry spoon, if you use wet spoon then it will spoil the water. (Dont use your hands to take it out, use a spoon)

My grand ma, After picking goose berry's, in the same water, she adds banana stem, in hot summer if you eat this pickled banana stem it tastes awesome.Even she adds raw mango to that water :) ....
(If you do it in that water , it will have sourness from goose berry's so tastes too good)
So i tried the same with Green apple and it tasted almost the same.

 

Enjoy your pickles....
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