Ingredients

• 5 kg - carrots (gajar)
• 500 g - vinegar
• 100 g - red chilli powder
• 500 g - jaggery
• 500 g - mustard oil
• 250 g - salt
• 100 g - turmeric (haldi)
• 150 g - mustard seeds (rai)
• Water to boil carrots

How to Make Sweet and Sour Carrot Pickle

• Wash and cut the carrot into long pieces.
• Add carrot to water and bring it to a boil.
• Take out carrot pieces from the water.
• Dry them in the sun for 2 hours.
• Mix the salt, chilli powder, turmeric and mustard seeds together and grind them.
• Blend mustard oil with the ground mixture.
• Blend jaggery with vinegar.
• Heat the jaggery-vinegar mix till the jaggery is completely dissolved.
• Mix the carrot pieces to the ground masala.
• Put this mixture in a jar and pour jaggery liquid on to it.
• Shake well and place under the sun.
• After 6-7 days the pickle will be ready.
• Serve with rice dishes or rotis.