LEMON CHUTNEY RECIPE

(from Nandini’s recipe box)

Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 15 minutes
Serves 2 people

Categories: chutney

Ingredients

  • 1/2 kg Lemons (Nimbu)
  • 250 grams Sugar (Cheeni) (2 cups heaped)
  • 1 teaspoon Red chili pepper (Lal Mirchi)
  • 2 tablespoons Salt (Namak)
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground big Cardamoms (Elaichi Moti)
  • 1/8 teaspoon ground Cloves (Lavang)

Directions

  1. How to make lemon chutney:

  2. • Wash the lemons and wipe with a cloth.

  3. • Squeeze out the juice and add salt to it.

  4. • Cut long strips of lemon skins and soak in the juice and put in a jar.

  5. • Put the jar in the sun for 6 days and shake it every other day till the lemon skins are tender.

  6. • Add sugar, Red chili pepper , cardamoms and cloves and mix.

  7. • Keep it in the sun until sugar is dissolved.

  8. • This chutney can be preserved for one year if it is kept in an airtight jar.

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