[sugarnspice]

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Title :: Pickled Beetroots
Author :: sugarnspice
Category :: 1] Snacks & Starters
Ingredients ::

• Quarter Teacup Water
  
• 1 Tablespoon Sugar
  
• Quarter Teacup Vinegar
  
• 3 Medium Beetroots

Description ::
Simple easy to make sweet and sour pickle

Boil and skin the beetroots, and make slices from them.
Make a solution of vinegar, water and sugar. Soak the vegetables in the solution.  When the beetroots have absorbed the vinegar and sugar, serve as pickle.



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[jyotirmoy]

We in Bengal use lemon juice instead of vinegar. Add sliced onions too.

[sugarnspice]

Sounds yummy! do you add sugar to the lemon juice? Let me know will try!

[jyotirmoy]

sugarnspice, on Oct 29 2006, 12:37 PM, said:

Sounds yummy! do you add sugar to the lemon juice? Let me know will try!

Yeah we do that. We also add sliced boiled carrots. Tastes better if left in the fridge for a few hours.

[sugarnspice]

Hate boiled carrots! Won't raw carrots do?

[jyotirmoy]

sugarnspice, on Oct 29 2006, 01:26 PM, said:

Hate boiled carrots! Won't raw carrots do?

You may not hate it when it is soaked in this lemon sugar mix along with onions. The idea behind boiling/steaming of the beetroots & carrots is to tenderise them so that they absorb the tangy marrinade. I forgot about thinly sliced cucumbers that we also add, that is typical Bengali salad!!!!!

[sugarnspice]

Sounds good! I will let you know how it turns out! Why didn't I get it when I was in Kolkatta? I did not hear about it then.

[jyotirmoy]

This is not a typical restaurant food, mostly eaten at home in the winter. It is only now that Bengali cuisine is coming out of household kitchens.

[sugarnspice]

Sounds like I may have to work out another trip sometime soon.