PICKLED DRUMSTICKS

This isn't a standard pickle recipe, I just ended up buying a lot of drumsticks (moringa/sajan phali/sajana) than I could eat from a particularly bedraggled old lady with no teeth and wearing an old dirty torn frock. My neighbours were away and the bai was on leave so all I could think of doing with the drumsticks was pickle them as I couldn't distribute them. Its not a standard pickle recipe as I have warned you earlier, I have put everything and anything I could lay my hands on, thankfully the pickle turned out ok.

INGREDIENTS

1o drumsticks washed and cut to 2" bits

4 tbs Turmeric

4 tbs salt

4 tbs coriander seeds (dry roasted and coarsely ground)

2 tbs fenugreek seeds (dry roasted and coarsely ground)

1 tbs mustard seeds (dry roasted and coarsely ground)

5 tbs red chilly powder (I used a mixture of chilly powder and chilly flakes 3:1)

1 cup oil

juice of 4 lemons

1 tsp mustard seeds (whole and unroasted)

LETS DO IT
 

Mix all the spice powders and salt with the cut drumsticks

Heat the oil and sputter the mustard seeds and add to the drumsticks.

Mix well and add the lemon juice.

Fill in a glass jar and keep in the sun for about a fortnight.