LEFT OVER LIME RIND PICKLE

This pickle with the left over rind is good to make the simple pickle.   Every day, you must be using one or two lime in your house.  What you have to do is after removing the juice, do not throw the rind.  Chop them finely.  Put them in a glass jar and add some salt in it.   Rest of the details, read the recipe below:

Pickles are part of Indian Cuisine.  Without pickle, the food is  incomplete.  Here is a pickle made out of the left over lime rind which we normally throw out or use to put in aluminium cooker to prevent it becoming black or use it for cleaning the brass vessels.

In Indian household, the lime is part of most of the cuisine as well as used for nimbu pani specially in summer.  Some people make the concentrated lime juice and store in fridge and whenever required, add water and drink it with salt and sugar.

Lime are good source of potassium, vitamin A, B, C and D, Calcium and Magnesium.  It rejuvenates the skin, improves digestion, fights infections, helps with weight loss, lowers blood sugar, reduces heart disease, prevents cancer,reduces inflammation etc.

A dash of lime juice in hot water in the morning helps in reducing the weight.



Let us look at the recipe now:

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Preparation time: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

1 big green chilli
1" size ginger
1 lime
4 rinds of lime
2 tbsp water
salt

Method:

Chop all the ingredients finely.  Put them in glass jar.  add the salt required, two table spoon hot water mix well and keep aside for two to three days.  When it becomes soft, you can put them in fridge.

In a week, you can keep on adding the rind.  After one week,  repeat the process and put them in a different jar as the first week's ingredients must have become soft and ready for use.

How to serve:

serve it with dal rice, curd rice etc.

Note: You can also add red chilli powder and make the pickle.

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