Birmi Karmbal Puddi Gallele/ Spicy Bilimbi Pickle

Birmi karmbal puddi gallele / Bimbul puddi gallele is a Kochi GSB Konkani style dry pickle made with bilimbi fruits.Bilimbi fruit is known as birmi karmbal / bimbul in Konkani. Birmi Karmbal Puddi Gallele /Spicy Bilimbi Pickle recipe is given below with step by step photos.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Birmi Karmbal Puddi Gallele /Spicy Bilimbi Pickle..

Ingredients:-

Bilimbi /birmi karmbal/bimbul.-30 or 40
Dry red chillies.-10
Mustard seeds.  -2 tsp
Methi seeds.      -1/2 tsp
Asafoetida.        -1tsp
Salt.                   -to taste
Gingelly oil.      -2 tbsp

Instructions:-

1). Wash bilimbi fruits in water and pat dry with a clean cloth. Chop each bilimbi fruits into 2 halves lengthwise and apply little salt on chopped bilimbi halves. Spread the chopped bilimbi halves on a plastic sheet. Place the plastic sheet under hot sun to dry the chopped bilimbi pieces for two consecutive days or until the bilimbi halves are 3/4 th dried under sun.

2). Dry the red chillies under hot sun. Roast the dry red chillies in little gingelly oil till crisp. Grind the roasted red chillies in a mixer grinder to a smooth chilly powder.

Method:-

1). Heat 2 tbsp gingelly oil in a wide bottom pan. Add sun-dried salty bilimbi halves and little salt into the pan and saute well in oil.

2). Lower the flame and add roasted red chilly powder into the pan and mix with the bilimbi pieces and switch off the flame.

3). Add asafoetida into the pan and mix well. (Heat a small pan and dry roast mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds (methi seeds) seperately and crush them into powder seperately using mortar and pestle).Add the crushed mustard powder and fenugreek powder (methi powder) into the pan and mix well.

4). Nicely mix the bilimbi pieces with the spice powder mixture.

5). Transfer the bilimbi spice powder mixture to a bowl to cool.

Birmi Karmbal Puddi Gallele / Bilimbi Pickle is ready.Once cooled store the bilimbi pickle in a clean and sun dried airtight glass bottle. The pickle will stay good for 6 months to one year.