Carrot And Dry Fruits Pickle. (Gajar, Sookha Meva Nu Achar)

Recipe Ingredients

1		Carrots grated
500		Apple cider vinegar - (or white wine vinegar)
50		Chile powder - (medium heat) (or to taste)
500		Jaggery block - (light coloured)
100		Dried apricots - (seedless)
150		Kharak - (if kharak is not available increase dates to 250 grams)
3		Garlic peeled and slit lengthwise in 4 quarters
150		Seedless dates - (slit in two)
100		Black currents - (seedless)
100		Resins - (seedless)
2 tablespoons	30ml	Crushed mustard seed - (not completely powdered)
200		Dried figs - (cut in two after removing stems)
2 teaspoons	10ml	Turmeric
2 teaspoons	10ml	Salt

Recipe Instructions

Soak the kharak for 4 hours in the 500 ml vinegar and drain. Slit kharak lengthwise in two and remove seeds.

Squeeze out some of the juice from the shredded carrots- but not all. (Retain the juice in a jug).

In the drained vinegar, add the shredded carrots, chile powder, and salt.

Boil the mixture in a large sauce pan on medium heat until half cooked, stirring frequently. (about half hour). Add some more vinegar, and/or retained carrot juice(only if mixture appears dry).

Add jaggery (after breaking/crumbling the block in small pieces). Add kharak, mustard, turmeric and garlic to the carrot mixture.

Cook on medium heat for about 10 minutes, stirring frequently

Add apricots and dates and cook until the mixture is thick and most of the liquid is absorbed. Stir frequently ( Note that the pickle will soak up some of the liquid while it is cooling)

Add figs currents and resins.

Stir and cook further for 5 minutes.

Remove from heat.

Cool mixture and bottle in sterilized jars.

Note. If the pickle appears somewhat dry after cooling, add some Golden Syrup mixed with some sweet sherry. Golden Syrup could be made somewhat more liquidy for easier mixing with the pickle by first heating it a little for half a minute or so in microwave or on stove.

NOTES. Does not need refrigeration. And keeps for several months.

Dried apricots with seeds (Jardaloo) are often not easily available outside of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. I have instead used dried, seeded, orange coloured apricots which are easily available in supermarkets.

Source:
Burjin

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