Gobhi Gajar Shalgam Ka Achar

Time To Cook	Serving	Measures
Preparation Time = 10 mins. Cooking Time = 15 mins.	2 Persons	1 Cup = 250 ml. 1 Teaspoon = 4 g. 1 Tablespoon = 15 g.

 

Ingredients
Cauliflower, Florets – ½ Kg
Carrots, Juliennes – ½ Kg
Turnip (Shalgam), Chopped – ½ Kg
Cumin Seeds – 3-4 Teaspoons
Cloves – 1 Teaspoon
Black Peppers – 2 Teaspoons
Black Cardamom – 5-6 Nos.
Cinnamon Stick – 1 No.
Ginger Paste – 1 Cup
Garlic Paste – ½ Cup
Jaggery – ½ Cup
Vinegar – 1 Cup
Mustard Oil – 1 Cup
Salt – 2 Teaspoons (Big)
Red Chilli Powder – 2 Teaspoons (Big)
Split Mustard Powder, Achari – 2 Teaspoons (Big)

Method
• Take cauliflower florets, carrot juliennes and chopped shalgam
• Keep all the vegetables (cauliflower, carrots and shalgam) in boiled water for 2 minutes
• Strain the vegetables
• Remove the excess water by keeping vegetables under fan or in the sunlight
• Lightly roast all the whole spices
• When they cool grind them in a mixer grinder
• Meanwhile, take a frying pan
• Add mustard oil and heat it till it smokes
• While mustard oil is getting heated take a sauce pan
• Add vinegar and jaggery
• And, keep it for boiling till jaggery dissolves completely
• When mustard oil starts smoking add ginger paste
• Add garlic paste and mix well
• Meanwhile if jaggery has dissolved completely in vinegar put off the flame
• And, if the roasted whole spices have cooled down, grind them in a mixer grinder
• When ginger garlic paste kept for heating in mustard oil turns brown, add red chilli powder
• Add 3 teaspoons of ground whole spices to it
• Add mustard powder and salt
• Add jaggery and vinegar mixture to it
• Add boiled vegetables to it
• Simmer while mixing it well
• Don’t cook it much since the vegetables are already boiled
• Put off the flame
• After cooling store it in a sterilized jar for longer life
• A jar can be sterilized by rinsing it with a boiled water and drying it in a sunlight
• Gobhi gajar shalgam achar is ready to serve within 3-4 days

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