The Popular Lasoon (garlic) Pickle.

I really don't know when I first made this pickle, or from whom I learnt making it. But this pickle was and is and has been associated with Pushpa Aunty, or Aajee,( my grand children call me that)

My eldest grandson Mehul phoned me about 4 months back, Aaje I need some of your garlic pickle urgently.. so I got down to work, first of all peeling the lasoon.

Ingredients: 1/4 kg. garlic nice big ones.

1 tsp haldi - turmeric powder.

1/2 tsp hing. ( asafoetida )3/4 teacup til oil (sesame )

2 table spoons dania powder ( coriander )

1/2 tablespoon red chilli powder

1/2 teaspoon methi seeds (fenugreek seeds)

2 teaspoons salt

Method: Heat oil, add hing and haldi, shut gas. Now add lasoon (garlic)and keep stirring till lasoon gets a glazed look.

When cool, add dania powder, red chilli powder, the methi seeds roughly

powdered and the salt.

Mix well - bottle after 2 days.