What is gum berry, and how to make it pickle? If you want to know the answer to this question, this blog post on homemade pickle recipes will help you a lot. In the Marathi language, gum berry is also known as Gunda. The pickle of gum berry can be easily found in Gujarat, Rajasthan, and many parts of Maharashtra. When talking about the availability of this raw fruit, it is available for limited periods of 15 to 20 days in the summer season and only in some specific cities.
Moreover, gum berry pickle is a traditional and favorite item of Gujarati households as this recipe passes from generation to generation. Gum berry pickles have a limited shelf life as it is made up of cooked gum berry fruits. You just need to follow the instructions of this blog post to make pickles of different items such as peppers, tomatoes, carrots, onions, watermelon, peaches, gum berries, and more. In this blog post, we will provide you with a complete guide on making homemade gum berry pickle recipes.
Two Types of pickle:
1. Quick Pickling: This is a fast and simple process for pickling. In this process, you just need to put vegetables in the pickling solution and wait a bit. This process of pickling is most suitable for eating and enjoying within a short period as they lose their crunch.
2. Boiling water bath: In this method of pickling, jars of prepared food are heated in the boiling water bath for some time. The food that is prepared by this method can be stored easily for one year.
Clean the Gum Berries:
- Select green Gum berry fruits in the store. Verify that the fruits are not damaged.
- Wash all the gum berries in clean water and dry them with a cloth.
- After that, remove the stem if it has and make a cross-slit on the top.
- Now take a chopstick and dip it in salt.
- Stick it into the fruit with a knife and scrape the seed out of the fruit.
- You can apply salt inside using the chopstick when the gum berry is needed.
- This procedure must be repeated for each fruit.
What are the ingredients for gum berry pickles?
The following is the complete list of gum berry pickle recipes, don’t forget to buy all the ingredients in the market if you want to make it at home.
- Deseeded Gum berry fruit: 1 kg
- Ground nut oil: 10 tablespoon
- Mix spice
- Methi Daal: 1 cup
- Rai Kuriya: 1 and a half cup
- Red chili powder: 1 cup
- Salt: Half cup
- Hing: 1 tablespoon
Process of making Gum Berry Pickles:
- By using the above ingredients, you can easily make a spice mix.
- After that, add 2 to 3 tablespoons of ground nut oil to the spice mix in order to get a crumb-like consistency. They will be very helpful in mixing spice sticks with the fruits.
- Now you should fill ¾th of the gum berry with the spice via the slit. It is essential to assure that there is no spice on the upper skin of the fruit. And keep the remaining spice mix as is.
- In the bowl, heat the remaining ground nut oil. You can increase or decrease the quantity of oil as per your need. Now, add the remaining spice mix to it, and if you find dryness, you can add some oil to it.
- Don’t forget to add stuffed gum berry fruits to it and cover it with a lid and leave the fruits to simmer for 40 to 50 minutes on low flame.
- Maintain its temperature by continuously stirring.
- Cool the fruit’s berry once they get cooked properly and add the remaining spice mix to it.
- In the end, your gum berry pickles are ready to eat. You can store it in bottles. If you don’t refrigerate it, these pickles will spoil very fast.
Final words:
This is the complete guide on gum berry pickles, and after reading this informative guide, you may come to know all about it. Hopefully, the process of making a Spicy pickle recipe of gum berry fruits will help you a lot. Furthermore, if you want to know the recipe of other Indian traditional pickles, you can visit the website of Spicyum to read more articles and blogs on it. After reading this guide, if you have any questions or doubts regarding the recipe for gum berry pickles, don’t forget to leave your message in the below comment box. Thank you for reaching out!
