Recipe- Winter Special Mix Vegetable Aachar

Gobhi Gajar Shalgam Achar will remind of you winters whenever you eat them. Winter vegetables preserved in sweet sour spicy syrup can turn a daily boring meal into a treat. you can have this achar with paranthas, pulav, mathri or whatever you like. This achar tastes awesome with Makkaki roti or parantha.

Ingredients

2.5 kg Gobhi Gajar Shalgam ( you can take quantity according to your choice. As we don’t like shalgam a lot I have taken 1 kg gobhi, 1 kg gajar and 500 grams shalgam)
2 tbsp sarson ka tel/mustard oil
100 grams grated ginger
1 tsp rai/mustard seeds ( roughly grind them)
1/2 cup vinegar
300 grams gurh/gud/jaggery
1 tbsp + 1 tsp salt
1 tsp red chili powder
1 tspdeghimirch
1 tsp garam masala

Method

- Wash clean and cut all the vegetables first.

- I have cut small pieces of gobhi and shalgam. After drying these shrink more.

- If you like you can cut bigger pieces also.

- Take a pan big enough to accommodate2.5 kgs of vegetable.

- Fill it half with water. heat the water. Remember we do not have to boil the water just heat it.

- Soak all the cut vegetables in hot water for 10 minutes. All the vegetables should be soaked properly in water.

- Remove the vegetables from the water.

- Spread some cotton cloth in sunlight and spread vegetables on it to dry.

- 3-4 hours of bright sunlight is sufficient.

- If it is cloudy you can dry vegetables indoor also but it will take more time.

- This is how they look after 3-4 hours.

- Assemble rest of the ingredients first before starting cooking.

- Crush with your hands or grate gurh so that it dissolves quickly. Heat oil in a wide thick bottomed pan (preferably steel).

- When oil is hot add ginger and cook it. Keep on stirring continuously. it will take around 3-4 minutes. when ginger is cooked add rai.

- Immediately add the spices and salt. mix it.

- Add vinegar and gurh and stir it continuously to dissolvegurh completely.

- After giving it a boil add all the vegetables. mix properly so that all the vegetables are coated with the spice mix.

- Cook vegetables for 7-8 minutes. vegetables will leave somewater.

- That is why we cook them for 7-8 minutes to remove that water.

- Gobhi Gajar Shalgam Achar is ready. let it cool down completely. Shift it to