Lemon Pickle (Nimmakaya Nilva Pachchadi)

Ingredients:
Lemons -50 no.s (Fresh)
Fenugreek Seeds -  1/2 Cup
Turmeric - 1 tsp
Salt - 500 gms
Red Chilli powder(Pachchi Karam) - 500 gms


Method:

• Take fresh and yellowish lemons for pickle not the green one.
• Wash and wipe the lemons with dry cloth. Cut each lemon into 4 or 8 pieces lengthwise.Cut 2/3 of lemons like this and squeeze juice from remaining lemons.
• Mix lemon pieces, juice, turmeric and salt in a jar and keep aside for 3 days.
• On third day separate pieces from juice and dry them in sunlight for  that day. keep juice along with jar in sunlight for 1 hour.
• Dry roast the fenugreek seeds and make them powder.
• Add fenugreek powder, red chilli powder,lemon pieces to the juice in the jar. Mix well. Add salt if necessary.
• We can store it for 1 year.