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Instant Green Chilli Pickle
Instant Green Chilli Pickle is the perfect accompaniment to any desi meal. Delicious with curry, paratha, daal chaawal or almost any other main dish, it packs a mild but pleasant punch and tastes amazing.
Unlike most traditional Pakistani pickles, Instant Green Chilli Pickle is quick and easy to make as you can prepare it on the side while your main meal is cooking or simmering on the stove – yes, it is that instant.
I love fresh green chillies and I think my fondness for them stems from the time when I was maybe 6 – 7 years old and happened to watch my Dad munch on a big fresh green chilli.
Dad, seeing me watch him, picked up another green chilli and offered it to me assuring me it wasn’t hot at all but very tasty. I was obviously apprehensive but I trusted my Dad much more than I feared the wrath of green chillies so I went ahead and bit into the chilli.
I was pleasantly surprised at how it was nowhere near hot (this was obviously a milder than mild batch of green chillies otherwise my Dad would’ve never offered me any) and had my first appreciative taste of the actual flavour of fresh green chillies. I have been hooked onto fresh green chillies, both the hot and mild varieties, ever since that day.
I have to thank Binjal Pandya of the beautiful blog “Binjal’s Veg Kitchen” for her easy peasy and mouthwatering Instant Green Chilli Pickle recipe. This blog is so gorgeous and it makes me want to cook everything on there!
As a general rule, the smaller the chilli the hotter its strength, though I have come across a few large sized green chillies in life that have literally knocked my socks off with their potent hotness.
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