Kaarakka Achar / Indian Olive Pickle

Karakka achar / Indian olive pickle is a very tasty pickle made with green kaarakka fruits and spice powders. Kaarakka is a small sour fruit with a seed inside and looks like small tender hog plum and usually grown in Kerala. Kaarakka fruit is also known as Indian olive / Ceylon olive, Karakka in Malalyalam, and Bor in Konkani. Karakka pickle is known as Bora Nonche in Konkani.We can preserve the green kaarakka fruit in brine (in boiled and cooled salt water). We can also make very tasty pickle with green karakka fruit. Kaarakka Achar / Indian olive pickle recipe is given below with step by step photos.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare  Kaarakka Achar / Indian Olive Pickle.

Ingredients:-

Green Kaarakka fruit.-20
Green chillies.           -2
Red chilly powder.    -3 tbsp
Mustard powder.       -2 tbsp
Fenugreek powder.   -1tbsp
Asafoetida.               -1tsp
Vinegar.                    -1tbsp
Salt.                          -to taste
Water.                       -as required
Gingelly oil.             -2 tbsp

Instructions:-

1). Wash green kaarakka fruits in water and pat dry with a clean cloth and keep them on a plate.

2). Make slits on all sides of green kaarakka fruit lengthwise without chopping it. Boil 1cup of water in a vessel adding 1tsp salt. Add green kaarakka fruits into the boiling water and cook the kaarakka fruits for 10 minutes on low flame and switch off the flame. Once cooled take out the boiled karakka fruits and keep them on a plate and transfer the boiled salt water to a bowl.

Method:-

1). Heat 2 tbsp gingelly oil in a pan. Add thinly chopped green chilly pieces and saute well in oil.Add boiled kaarakka fruits into the pan and saute in oil on low flame. Add 2 tbsp salt into the pan. Mix well and switch off the flame.

2). Add red chilly powder, mustard powder and fenugreek powder into the pan and mix with the kaarakka fruits.

3). Add asafoetida into the pan and mix well.

4). Add boiled salt water into the pan and stir well till the spice powders nicely coated inside the slit of the boiled kaarakka fruits.

5). Add vinegar to the pickle and mix well.

6). Transfer the Kaarakka Pickle to a ceramic bowl to cool.

Kaarakka Achar / Indian Olive Pickle is ready to serve after 2 days. Once cooled store the pickle in a clean and sun dried airtight glasss bottle.The pickle will stay good for 6 months to one year.