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Uppilitta Nellikka Achar / Salted Gooseberry Pickle

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I love the salted gooseberries, so whenever I get some gooseberries in the market, I will buy and keep it stored in brine. After 2-3 days, it will start soaking in the salt water and I used to eat it whenever I want. This time when my mom came, she bought the brined gooseberries after draining the salt water. As there were so many, I told her to make a pickle out of it and this is how it came out. She bought about 1 kg of gooseberries and she made ½ kg for the pickle and the remaining ½ kg I am having it daily :-) I am a big pickle fan, that one day I ate around 4- 5 pickles mixed in rice and I ended up going to doctor for severe acidity. But now my intake of pickle has reduced a lot. My mom is very good in making pickles that I have learnt a lot about pickle making from her. I prefer homemade pickle rather than canned ones, as they are loaded with preservatives. Try this out and you will come to know… Ingredients: Gooseberries- ½ kg Red Chilli Powder- 5 tbsp Asafoetida powder- 1 tsp ...

Gooseberry Shot- A healthy shot...

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W e usually go for morning walks in nearby park, so when we went to our native Kochi for vacations, we continued our morning walks around the stadium as our house was located near stadium. From very early morning, lots of people will come there for walking and so we too joined them. One of those days, a shop in the premises of stadium attracted us as the name was unique “Carrots and Apples”. We first thought it is some vegetable shop but later when we went inside we saw 3 to 4 juicer mixers and all the vegetables were kept there. It was actually a juice shop and when we read their menu we were surprised to see lots of juices and shots made out of vegetables which is very healthy to our entire body and in their menu below each and every name of the juice the health benefits, proteins and nutrients are explained well. There menu includes ABC juice, root mix, vitamix,happy heart, gooseberry shot, bitter gourd shot and the list goes on. They have a variety of soups too.In this we have trie...