Orange Peel Pickle / Thokku
Orange Peel Pickle / Thokku

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Orange Peel Pickle / Thokku is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Orange Peel Pickle / Thokku is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook orange peel pickle / thokku using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Orange Peel Pickle / Thokku:
  1. Prepare 2 oranges Peels of
  2. Prepare 100 grams ginger
  3. Get 6 green chillies
  4. Take 200 ml tamarind extract
  5. Make ready to taste salt
  6. Prepare 1/4 tsp turmeric
  7. Prepare 1 tbsps jaggery
  8. Get 150 ml sesame oil
  9. Get 1 asafoetida compounded pellet
  10. Prepare 1 tsp urad dal white
  11. Get 1 tsp mustard seeds

Orange peels are the thick finely-textured and orange coloured skin of oranges. Nellikai thokku or Gooseberry Pickle is an absolutely delicious spicy, tangy, sweet and sour South Indian style pickle variety made with nellikai or Amla. Peel the skin of the orange and chop it to smaller pieces and wash it thoroughly. In a heavy bottomed pan, add the oil add chopped orange skin and fry it until it becomes soft and cooked.

Steps to make Orange Peel Pickle / Thokku:
  1. Take the peels of oranges and chop them finely. Finely chop the green chillies.
  2. Soak a small lime sized tamarind in lukewarm water for 10 minutes and take its extract.
  3. Peel the skin of ginger and grind it in a blender jar without adding water.
  4. Take a steel vessel or wok, on medium heat, add asafoetida,mustard seeds and urad dal. Saute them for a minute.
  5. Now add finely chopped green chillies and saute.
  6. Next add the ginger and saute for a minute.
  7. Now add the chopped orange peels and saute them until aromatic. After about 3 minutes they'll become soft.
  8. At this stage add the tamarind extract.
  9. Add salt, turmeric and let it boil in low heat(for about 15 minutes). The orange and other ingredients will start absorbing the tamarind extract and start to thicken, at this stage add jaggery and mix until jaggery dissolves.
  10. Take it off the heat and store it in a glass jar. This will stay good for 1 month, if kept in a cool and dry place.

Are you always trashing off your orange peels? Next time, before trashing it, just try out this tasty, tangy pickle. But, I have never thought of making an orange peel pickle until I had a chance to taste this from my friend's home last month. If you love tangy taste, then you will definitely love this pickle. I love making homemade pickles and thokku.

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