Vella Naranga Achar / Kerala Style Lemon Pickle

Vella Naranga Achar is a Kerala style mouth watering lemon pickle made with small lemons adding green chillies, ginger, garlic and curry leaves.Vella Naranga Achar recipe is given below with step by step photos.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Vella Naranga Achar / Kerala Style Lemon Pickle.

Ingredients:-

Small lemon.      -10 fresh
Ginger chopped. -1 inch piece
Green chillies.    -10 chopped
Garlic cloves.      -12 chopped
Curry leaves.       -few
Mustard seeds.     -1tsp
Dry red chillies.   -3
Turmeric powder. -1/4 tsp
Asafoetida.           -1/2 tsp
Vinegar.                -1tbsp
Salt.                       -to taste
Gingelly oil.          -1/4 cup

Instructions:-

1). Wash and clean small fresh lemons and pat dry the lemons with a clean cloth. Steam cook the lemons in a idli steamer for 3 minutes. Once cooled chop the steamed lemons into small pieces and remove the seeds. Sprinkle a pinch of salt over the chopped lemon pieces and mix well. Peel the skin and chop ginger into small pieces. Slit green chillies into small pieces. Peel and chop garlic cloves into thin lengthy pieces. Keep the chopped lemon pieces, ginger pieces, green chilly pieces and garlic pieces along with few curry leaves on a plate.

Method:-

1). Heat gingelly oil in a wide pan and splutter mustard seeds. Add broken dry red chilly pieces, chopped ginger and chopped green chillies and saute well in oil. Add thinly chopped garlic cloves and curry leaves into the pan and saute in oil on low flame till nice aroma comes.

2). Add chopped lemon pieces into the pan and mix well.

3). Add turmeric powder, required salt and asafoetida into the pan and mix with the lemon pieces. 

 4). Saute well all the ingredients in the pan. Boil and cook on low flame for 4 to 5 minutes.Add vinegar into the pan and mix well. Check for salt.Mix well and cook for 2 minutes on low flame and switch off the flame.

 

5). Allow the lemon pickle to cool.Once cooled store the lemon pickle in a clean and sundried airtight glass bottle or bowl.

Very tasty and mouth watering Kerala style Vella Naranga Achar / Lemon Pickle is ready to use. 

Note:- Always use a clean and dry spoon to take out the lemon pickle from glass bottle or glass bowl, else fungus will enter into the pickle bottle and decay the pickle.