Homemade Bitter gourd-Lemon Pickle

Homemade Bitter gourd-Lemon Pickle : There is special a demand on the Bitter gourd-Lemon pickle. Bitter gourd is useful in purifying the blood and Lemon is very beneficial for stomach diseases. If these two are combined and given the form of pickle, then they prove to be even more beneficial.

Health benefits of Bitter gourd

1. Since bitter gourd is bitter, it has components that prevent your body from absorbing extra sugar. Therefore, it helps lower and maintain blood sugar levels in your body.
2. Bitter gourd consumption treats intestinal disorders like constipation and stomach ache. It helps to improve digestive system
3. Doctors and nutritionists prescribe bitter gourd to diabetic patients.  It contains three active substances with anti-diabetic properties. The active substances (polypeptide-p, vicine, and Charanti) have insulin-like properties and blood glucose-lowering effects.
4. Bitter gourd is a rich source of vitamin C that comes with plenty of antioxidant properties. Antioxidants are necessary for our body as it helps in the multiplication of the immune cells and white blood cells (WBCs).
5. Bitter gourd also useful and consider as a weight-loss food
6. Bitter gourd used in regulates the hormones and reproduction system as well.

For those who cannot eat bitter gourd as it is, it is good choice for them to eat it in the form of pickle.

Raw material for Pickle

3 kg bitter gourd
75 grams mustard
2 teaspoon turmeric
2 teaspoons chili
750 grams mustard oil
1 kilo of lemon juice
150 gram black pepper
Salt as per the taste

Method of preparation

First of all, clean the bitter gourd with water and peel the bitter gourd with knife or the cutter. Cut the peeled bitter gourd in to the middle (center of bitter gourd) and put all middle cut bitter gourd in to one big pot.

Then keep the pot in the sun to dry all bitter gourd. We kept it to dry in the sun so that its water comes out and also reduces bitterness.

After this, grind all the spices well. You can use Mixer or traditional way of grinding method. Once the spices grinded well , then mixed it well in the another pot. This mixture is thick in shape. Then put some oil to become the shape thinner. After that add lemon juice too in this mixture. This well prepared mixture is very important as it contains actual taste of spices.

Collect the pot where we dried bitter gourd. Then put a little mixture in each bitter gourd into the middle cut. Apply this procedure for all bitter gourd and keep it in the another pot.

Then spread a cloth on a clean place and take one by one bitter gourd and keep on the clean cloth. Hold and Keep this cloth in the sunrays to  drying filled bitter gourd.

When all bitter gourd dries well in the sun, put them in a glass or Porcelain vessel and keep them in cooled place. Pour enough oil on top of them so that all the bitter gourds are immersed in it.

Now keep these bitter gourds vessel in the sun for 5-6 days. Bitter gourd lemon pickle will be ready for consumption after just one week.

Online availability

There is less chances of getting the pickle combination with Bitter gourd and Lemon from online stores. But there is other options to get individual pickle from many online stores like bigbasket, Jio Mart, Flipkart, D-MART, Reliance Smart and other online shopping stores.

Please find few better individual / combo offer for bitter gourd – lemon pickle –

From Flipkart-

https://www.flipkart.com/naturearth-karela-pickle-spicy-lemon-combo-400-200-gm-maa-ke-achar-bitter-gourd/p/itm1bb3e7efaa443

From Bigbasket-

https://www.bigbasket.com/pc/snacks-branded-foods/pickles-chutney/?nc=nb&page=2

From bekarmic-

Combo of Bitter Gourd Pickle & Choose One More