Recipes - Chili Achar

Ingredients:

• 1 cup fresh hot red chilies
• 1 cup fresh hot green chilies
• 1/2 cup mint leaves
• 10 cloves garlic
• 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
• 2 tablespoons mustard seed
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 1 teaspoon timur (Szechwan pepper)
• 2 tablespoons tamarind paste
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• Pinch of asafetida
• 3 tablespoons oil
• Salt to taste

Cooking Instructions:

In a pan, toast sesame seeds, cumin and mustard seeds. Spread out on a paper towel to cool down. Grind to a powder. In a blender, combine chilies, ground mixture of sesame, cumin, and mustard seeds, mint leaves, garlic, timur, tamarind, sugar, lime jest and juice, asafetida, oil and salt; blend into a paste with a desired texture. If desired hot and sour, increase the amount of tamarind paste. Store in sterilized jar and refrigerate.