South Indian
South Indian Lemon Pickle
South Indian Lemon Pickle is South Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 6 lemons
- 1/4 cup sesame oil
- 1 tbsp mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1 tbsp red chili powder
- 1 tbsp jaggery
- 2 tbsp salt
How to cook it
- Cut the lemons into small wedges, toss with the salt, and let them sit for 30 minutes to soften and release their juice.
- Dry roast the mustard and fenugreek seeds separately until fragrant, cool, and grind coarsely.
- Heat the sesame oil until it shimmers, then stir in the ground spices, turmeric, and chili powder off the heat.
- Fold the lemon wedges and jaggery into the spiced oil and cook gently over low heat until glossy and the lemon softens further, about 8 minutes.
- Cool completely, pack into a clean jar, and serve a spoonful alongside the meal.
Serve it with
A South Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside South Indian Lemon Pickle, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. South Indian Lemon Pickle carries sesame. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Coconut Chutney |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Fruit
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
South Indian Lemon Pickle takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
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From the same kitchens
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Does the same job on the plate
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Cook this with your whole family
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