CABBAGE PICKLE

CABBAGE PICKLE-by-Aparna

1 medium size.cabbage
1/4 kg tamarind
1/4 kg. red chilli powder
1/4 kg.oil
1 tbl.mustard seeds
1 ts. Menthi seeds
salt for taste
pinch of turmeric powder

FOR POPU:
5 chillies
1 ts.split chick peas
1 ts.urad daal
1 ts.cumin
10 cloves of garlic
pinch of hing

PROCESS :
Cut the cabbage into small pieces, wash and dry on a towel. Add turmeric powder salt and keep aside for 6 hrs.Make juice of tamarind.Fry mustard and menthi seeds separately, make powder and keep aside.Put a pan on a low flame,add 1/4kg.oil and fry all the popu ingredients. When the daals and garlic turn into brown, add hing. Then add tamarind juice and cook in a low flame till the oil flows on the top. Remove from the stove. When it cools down, add red chilli powder, menthi mustard power.Then add to the pickle. Enjoy with rice and ghee.