Lololikka/Lovlolika/Scramberry Pickle

Lololikka/Lovlolika/Scramberry Pickle

Nostalgic school days where friendship works well with wild berries. God knows the names are brightly saved. But it turned into pickle form in amma’s adukala after my BIG B got some saplings of berries from nursery. Now its season around and hard to pluck safely in the cost of labour. Credit goes to Amma in collecting it and preserving in bharani.

Ingredients:

Lovlolika – (Preserved in salt water) a bowl

Chili (Kanthari) – 3-5 nos (optional)

Chili powder – 2 tbsp

Fenugreek powder – ½ tsp

Asafoetida – 1 tsp

Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp

Red Chili - 1

Gingelly oil – 2 tbsp

Salt – to taste

Method:

Clean lovlolika in water - Add required salt with kanthari mulaku/ chili and store in a bharani for few days.. Heat oil in a kadai, splutter mustard seeds, red chilli and curry leaves. Reduce the flame, add chili powder, asafoetida powder and fenugreek powder. Add the salt sedimented in bottle/bharani. Switch off the flame and add salty Lovlolika and mix well. Store in glass bottle or achar bharani. Perfect match with rice varities.