Zero Oil Lemon Pickle Recipe | Healthy Sweet & Sour Nimbu Achar
Try this super easy zero oil lemon pickle recipe with a perfect sweet and sour taste. A healthy homemade nimbu achar without preservatives, ready with simple ingredients.
Ingredients
- 250 gm lemon
- 40 gm white salt
- 15 gm black salt
- 20 gm ajwain
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 5 gm black pepper powder
- 1 pinch heeng
- 1 tsp haldi
- 2 lemon juice
Instructions
- First wash lemon with water and remove any dirt. Put them aside for 2-3 hours to Let them cool completely. After that cut them into slices.
- Now take a bowl, add white and black salt, black pepper powder, turmeric powder, ajwain, sugar, heeng and mix them.
- Then add lemon slices and squeeze out lemon juice. Mix again nicely.
- Now transfer the mixture into a clean and dry glass bottle and put the lid. Keep this bottle in the sunlight for 7-10 days. Shake the bottle in between.
- Oil free lemon pickle is ready. Enjoy it with chapatti, paratha, poori, naan, etc.
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Notes
1. Lemon should be firm, soft, dry and dirt free.
2. Glass jar or bottle should be clean and dry, place the bottle for an hour or two in the sunlight before transferring pickle in it.
3. After mixing all the ingredients, transfer to a glass jar and close the lid. Keep the jar in the sunlight for a few days to get it ready fast.
4. Always take out pickle with a dry and any flour free spoon to increase the shelf life of the pickle.