It is the delicious and spicy pickle which adds the perfect flavour combination for a plate of piping hot biryani. Any biryani lover would vouch for the incredible flavour that a tiny bit of pickle would add to the dish. Delicious beetroot pickle tastes amazing with biryani. The sweetness from the dates perfectly cuts through the sourness and spiciness of the beetroot pickle. Try out this unique recipe of beetroot pickle.
Ingredients
250 gms beetroot
250 gms dates (without pits)
100 ml vinegar
50 gms pickle powder
1 tbsp sugar
A piece of ginger
2 green chillies
5 cloves garlic
1 tsp asafoetida
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp fenugreek seeds
Curry leaves
Salt as required
1 tbsp coconut oil
Preparation
Cook the beetroot with the skin on. Removing the skin would take out its vibrant colour and nutrition as well
Soak the dates in hot water and grind well
Into it add sugar, pickle powder, asafoetida, vinegar and salt as required
Mix well
Grind the beetroot well and add it into the dates mixture
Grind the ginger, garlic and green chillies and add this into the beetroot - dates mixture. These ingredients are optional and could be avoided
Mix well
Heat coconut oil in a pan and splutter the mustard seeds
Into it add the fenugreek seeds and curry leaves
Roast well and add this tempering into the pickle
If the pickle is too thick, loosen it by adding hot water as required
Add more vinegar for sourness or sugar for sweet if required.
