Lime Achar
Ingredients
- ½ bucket yellow limes full of juice
- 1 ½ cups chopped hot peppers 1/2 teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup vinegar
- ¼ cup salt (or to taste)
Directions
- Blanch limes in boiling water for 5 minutes, until soft but full of juice.
- Remove the seeds from the hot peppers.
(A trick is to wear gloves and remove the seeds under water to avoid burning your hands and eyes). 
- Slice hot pepper and cook them for a few minutes in the pot covered with a little water, until soft.
- In a large bowl, place the cooled blanched limes. Slice them in half and remove the seeds. Then slice into strips with a scissor. Add all the juice!!
- Mix in the chopped peppers.
- Add in the vinegar
- Salt to taste
- Spoon in to boiled canning jars (or whatever you have)
- Seal and place in the SUN!
Been searching for a recipe which ressembles what my mother used to make, but impossible to find! This one comes very close. From France to Asia, no recipe I saw called for the limes to be cooked and cured in the sun, like my mum used to do. And the joke is that although some people in Trinidad call it Lime Pepper, they do not put any pepper...( SOME people's version ). Many thanks!
ReplyDeleteThis how my mom made it in Trinidad and I am about to make it now here in US but alas I may not have the sun as it is very near Winter.
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