GOOSEBERRIES PICKLE / SPICY AMLA PICKLE

This piquant amla delicacy is spiced with chilli, fenugreek, fennel and nigella seeds. boil the amlas to remove their bitter juices. Also reduced the quantity of mustard oil, but you can add more if you wish to preserve the pickle for a longer period at room temperature. Choose refrigeration instead to increase the shelf life. It takes about 3 to 4 days for this pickle to mature in the sun before you are ready to eat it.

Ingredients

10 nos. (250 grams) amlas (Indian gooseberries)
3 teaspoons crushed fenugreek seeds (methi na kuria)
3 teaspoons fennel seeds (saunf), coarsely ground
1 teaspoon nigella seeds (kalonji)
¼ teaspoon asafoetida (hing)
3 teaspoons chilli powder
1 teaspoon turmeric (haldi) powder
2 tablespoons mustard oilHealth Capsule - Robust Source of Vitamin C

If you want to increase you weight and that too in a healthy manner you should consume more of gooseberry. It helps in balancing nitrogen levels very well which helps in increasing your weight. It helps in increasing protein levels. It is also known to have anabolic effect.

Home Remedy

The gooseberry can be preserved using honey, and thus used throughout the year. Take required number of gooseberries and clean them in running water. Pierce the gooseberries using a sharp stainless steel edge at various spots. Now immerse these pierced gooseberries in a jar full of pure honey. Cover the mouth of the jar using fine white cloth and place the jar in sunlight for an hour for 15 days. Now the gooseberries are ready ready for consumption throughout the year. Every day morning, after brushing the teeth, take one fruit soaked in honey to improve your effectiveness.

Alternatively a tablespoon each of fresh gooseberry juice and honey mixed together forms a very effective medicine for several ailments. Its regular use will promote vigor in the body within a few days. When fresh fruit is not available, dry powder can be mixed with honey.

A tablespoon of gooseberry juice, mixed with a cup of fresh bitter gourd juice, taken daily for 2 months will reduce the blood sugar in diabetes.

The Indian gooseberry is useful in the treatment of rheumatism. One teaspoonful of powder of dry fruit mixed with two teaspoonfuls of jaggery should be taken twice daily for a month in this disease.