Chili-Lemon Pickle

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The spicier counterpart to Moroccan preserved lemons, this pickle tin beryllium made successful conscionable a time and utilized immediately, dissimilar immoderate accepted recipes that telephone for a 30-day-or-longer curing period.

Nonetheless, it volition deepen successful spirit arsenic it ages. Use it connected rice, arsenic a array accompaniment to grilled oregon roasted meats, oregon adjacent mixed with pick food connected a bagel oregon successful a sandwich.

The look calls for asafetida, an oniony spice that is disposable astatine Indian markets, wherever the curry leaves and dried sanaam chili peppers besides tin beryllium found.

The lemons request to marinate for 1 oregon 2 days. The pickle tin beryllium refrigerated successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 6 months.

Adapted from K.N. Vinod, chef-restaurateur of Indique, Indique Heights and Bombay Bistro.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 2.5 cups

4 mean (about 1 pound) lemons
3 teaspoons kosher salt
1/2 cupful distilled achromatic vinegar
1 cupful rootlike oil
1 spoon achromatic mustard seed
4 to 5 dried chile peppers, preferably an Indian assortment specified arsenic sanaam (see headnote)
1/2 spoon asafetida (see headnote)
6 to 7 curry leaves (see headnote)
1/4 spoon fenugreek seeds
1 tablespoonful reddish chili powder
1 spoon ail powder
1/2 spoon crushed turmeric
1/2 spoon crushed ginger

Nutritional Facts

Per tablespoonful serving

Calories
52
Fat
6 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
2 g
Sodium
162 mg
Fiber
1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from K.N. Vinod, chef-restaurateur of Indique, Indique Heights and Bombay Bistro.

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published February 2, 2010

Updated March 13, 2026