Simple, practical, and full of everyday flavour, garlic pickle recipe | chilli garlic pickle recipe | garlic chilli pickle is a vegetarian Indian pickle made with oil, or 25 cloves garlic, and green chilli in about 20 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 10 minutes
- Cook time: 10 minutes
- Total time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 1 Jar
- Category: pickle
- Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients
- ¼ cup oil
- ½ cup or 25 cloves garlic
- 3 green chilli (slit)
- 3 inch ginger (julienne)
- 1 tbsp kashmiri chilli powder / lal mirch powder
- ½ tsp turmeric / haldi
- pinch of hing / asafoetida
- 1 tsp mustard / rai
- ¼ tsp methi / fenugreek seeds
- ½ tsp fennel / saunf
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 whole lemon juice
Method
- firstly, in a pan heat ¼ cup oil. use mustard oil for more flavours.
- further add 25 cloves garlic, 3 green chilli and 3 inch ginger.
- saute on medium flame till the garlic turns slightly golden. do not over roast the garlic as it doesn't taste great for pickle.
- furthermore add 1 tbsp chilli powder, ½ tsp turmeric and pinch of hing.
- saute for 30 seconds on low flame or till spices gets cooked well.
- cool the mixture completely.
- meanwhile, dry roast 1 tsp mustard, ¼ tsp methi and ½ tsp fennel.
- crush and powder them finely.
- furthermore add powdered masala to the prepared garlic mixture.
- also add 1 tsp salt and 2 whole lemon juice. mix well.
- finally, serve instant chilli garlic pickle with paratha or curd rice.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.
