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A classic mango pickle, made in Ammiji’s inimitable style. Sun-dried raw mango, spices and very, very little oil…
Ask Ammiji what her favorite mango pickle is, and she’ll sniff and say, “Sukka waala.” And her favorite just had to be done.
Ammiji’s Dried Mango Pickle is made with raw Ramkela mangoes, which are cut up into bite-sized pieces and then spread out to dry under the sun on our terrace. They’re then pickled with the choicest spices and minimal cold-pressed mustard oil. The resulting pickle has the typical tang of raw mangoes, intensified many times over. The spices only serve to complement the inherent concentrated taste of them.
What you have here is a pickle that you’ll love spending your time over, slowly slathering the masala over a parantha and then picking up a chunk to take small nibbles out of it…and then when there’s no mango flesh left, sucking the juices from the left-over piece of mango pit. We don’t mean to make that sound kinda dirty…that’s just the way this pickle is! ;)
Get your hands on this super-tempting pickle, made with Ammiji’s traditional recipe, with handpicked ingredients. Thank us later.
Ingredients: Raw mango, Salt, Mustard seeds, Fenugreek seeds, Asafoetida, Red Chilli, Mustard Oil.
Refrigerate for longer shelf life.
Weight: 190 gms
Good For: 9 months
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Fresh, plump and juicy strawberries marry the booziness of vodka and the bite of balsamic vinegar in a jam that’s a gourmet dream…
Strawberry season is here, and no one is more excited than us at Ammiji’s! We’re getting boxes and boxes of fresh and juicy strawberries directly from a farm, and turning them into this not-too-sweet jam that will see us through when there are no more fresh strawberries in the market.
There is, perhaps, no jam that is as versatile or as popular as a strawberry jam is. Slather it on to your croissants, add a dollop on your cheeseboard, spread it on your ajwain parantha, stir it into an avant-garde cocktail, thin it out and pour it over your waffles or just smear it all over a crisp sourdough toast – this is the stuff that gourmet dreams are made of! Every time we’ve made this jam here at Ammiji’s, one of us has found a novel way to eat it. The latest was when we sandwiched the jam between layers of homemade Victorian sponge cake…uff, heaven!
We’ve taken a classic jam, and added a funky twist to it. A dash of vodka, and another of balsamic vinegar turns this into a jam that has layers of flavour with every bite. The sugar content is less than fifty percent, because we love the tang of strawberries and didn’t want a jam that was overly sweet. We hope you enjoy this as much as we do.
Ingredients: Strawberries, Sugar, Lemon juice, Balsamic Vinegar, Vodka*
*contains less than 1% alcohol
]Weight: 225 gm
Price: Rs 550 450 (inclusive of taxes)
Good for: 6 months
Refrigerate after opening. (This jam contains no preservatives or additives.)
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You walk into any village home in Punjab in early December and you’ll see garlands of cauliflower and turnip drying in the sun. Gajar Gobhi Shalgam Achaar is that essential condiment on the Punjabi table at all meals throughout the winter. Aloo paranthas for breakfast – bring on the achaar! Makki ki roti and sarson ka saag for lunch – where’s the achaar? Dal chawal for dinner – mix in some achaar. It’s everywhere – in different versions. Though perhaps this sweet and spicy version made with jaggery is the most popular.
Ammiji, of course, has 3 different recipes for 3 different types of Gajar Gobhi Shalgam pickle. This season, we took our favorite one of the lot and with her guidance, brought it out for your dining pleasure. It’s khatta meetha and pure deliciousness!
This pickle will go well with anything and everything – we like to eat it plain with ajwain paranthas too!
Ammiji’s Gajar Gobhi Shalgam Achaar is no run-of-the-mill vegetable pickle. It’s subtly spiced with premium spices which gives it an unmistakable fragrance and a complex, rich taste.
Ingredients: Cauliflower, Carrot, Turnip, Garlic, Ginger, Salt, Red Chilli, Jaggery, Mustard seeds, Cumin, Cinnamon, Clove, Black Cardamom, Star Anise, Mace, Mustard Oil.
Weight: 300 gm
Best before 6 months.
Refrigerate after opening for longer shelf life.
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Ammiji spends an hour or so in the kitchen every morning. She can’t stand straight because her back is bent, so she’ll perch upon a high wooden stool set directly in front of the stove, and set about making a dish or two for the day. Yes, she’s 90 but she cooks her own sabzis. When you offer to help her out in the kitchen, she’ll grudgingly let you, but only up till a point. When her sabzi or dal is almost ready, she’ll shoo you out on some pretext or the other, and proceed to turn the ordinary dish into one that’s really not ordinary.
It took us a while to catch on to her secret. A lot of failed conversations, a few grudging admissions and a whole lot of argument led us to wrangle the recipe out of her. And once made, we had the most fragrant spice blend imaginable. Was it a garam masala? Ammiji said it was. But this was no ordinary garam masala. It was garam and it was a masala, but we could have added a few superlatives in there.
A pinch of this extraordinary masala is all you need to make your dish sublime. This is rather unlike the garam masalas available in the market where you have to add at least half a teaspoon. This tiny jar will last you a long time. And we promise, you’ll be wanting another one when the jar threatens to be empty.
Ammiji’s garam masala is addictive. Whoever has used it has kept on using it. A caterer friend uses the masala in the dishes he sets up for events and parties, and he’s so happy with the result that he orders this by the kilo. Go ahead, see what the fuss is all about.
Ingredients: Cumin, Cinnamon, Piper Longum, Coriander, Black Cardamom, Clove, Star Anise, Stone Flower, Green Cardamom, Mace, Ginger, Red Chilli, Nutmeg, Rock Salt.
We use only top-notch, premium spices for all our spice blends. This is homemade in small batches and packed at home. No one outside Ammiji’s family is allowed to touch the garam masala when it’s being made – it’s that precious…
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Include a delicious dose of health in your daily meals. This pickle harnesses the massive power of garlic in tiny, delicious and intensely addictive bites.
Who hasn’t heard about the multifarious benefits of garlic? From curing colds to increasing longevity, garlic and the compounds present in it have been credited with myriad health benefits by civilizations through the ages. Maybe that is why this aromatic is revered and included in almost every cuisine around the world.
And of course, Ammiji is all for the wisdom passed down through generations! While ginger is her favourite remedy for anything that ails you, garlic is her steady way of ensuring that nothing ever ails you. And her garlic pickle is our way of ensuring that you get a regular dose of good health!
Ammiji’s Garlic Pickle has fat cloves of desi garlic, pickled with mild spices. It’s not very spicy – Ammiji believed in letting the flavour and umami of garlic shine through in this pickle. It will go well with almost anything – from theplas to paranthas, and from dal-chawal to sabzi-roti. Just make sure that you eat it every single day, as Ammiji intended!
Ingredients: Garlic, Salt, Red Chilli, Fenugreek seeds, Mustard seeds, Fennel seeds, Nigella seeds, Vinegar, Mustard Oil.
Weight: 175 gm
Price: Rs 400 300 (inclusive of taxes)
Good for: 8 months
Refrigerate after opening. (This pickle contains no preservatives.)
Always use a clean, dry spoon while scooping out Ammiji’s delicious pickles!
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A treasure hidden in plain sight – that’s what Ammiji calls the common Indian kitchen staple, ginger. And this is her delicious ginger pickle – supremely digestive, low on salt and oil.
Ginger is the one staple that Ammiji always keeps plenty of in her kitchen. It goes everywhere – from her tea to her curries and from her stoveside to her bedside. According to her, ginger has the power to cure everything – be it nausea, a stomache or a niggling cold. As children we were force-fed strong ginger juice sweetened with a little honey every winter evening, and brined ginger was a part of every salad that we saw on the table.
And one of the pickles that always graced Ammiji’s table was this simple Ginger pickle. Thick cut ginger, dried out in the sun till slightly hard and then pickled with very little oil and spice.
We tried out different recipes for a ginger pickle (no, please don’t tell Ammiji that!), but the one thing that we used as a touchstone was the clean taste of every bite of Ammiji’s original pickle. And so, that’s the recipe we finally went with, even though it was a minimal one!
Ammiji’s Ginger Pickle is the perfectly crunchy side to your meals. Each bite will not only bless you with the incredible power of ginger, but will also enhance your meal experience.
Ingredients: Ginger, Salt, Red Chilli, Turmeric, Aniseed, Fenugreek seeds, Nigella seeds, Coriander seeds, Mustard seeds, Mustard oil, Lemon juice.
Weight: 150 gm
Price: Rs 350 280 (Inclusive of tax)
Good for: 12 months
Always use a clean, dry spoon to scoop out Ammiji’s pickles from the jar!
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This is Ammiji’s attempt to make the best out of what we usually waste – and this is literally the best! Cauliflower or Gobhi has multiple health benefits but a lot of their nutrition resides in their stalks. We usually discard those stalks – but here, we take those very stalks and make them shine in this tangy and spicy pickle!
Cauliflowers are high in fibre and antioxidants and are known for their disease-fighting properties. They’re also low in calories and carbohydrates, making them excellent for weight loss. But the nutritional benefits of the cauliflower does not only reside in the flower; the stalks are equally nutritious. The delicate tasting flesh of the stalks is a delicacy all by itself.
And that is why Ammiji never wasted the gobhi danthal! They were made into a sabzi or stored in the fridge till she had collected enough for this pickle. Flavoured with chilli and garlic, this pickle is a delight to pair with anything.
Ingredients: Cauliflower stalks/stem, Garlic, Green chilli, Salt, Red chilli, Mustard seeds, Mustard Oil.
Good for 3 months.
Refrigerate for longer shelf life!
Weight: 200 gms
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Fresh green chillies, pickled with jaggery. Is it sweet? Yes. Is it tangy? Of course. Is it spicy? Hell yeah! Warning: Insanely addictive.
Ammiji has this trick where she’ll add a pinch of jaggery to a dish at a particular stage of cooking. You can’t taste the jaggery but there’s this intriguing sweetness to any sabzi cooked by her. So when she first made this pickle, and called it GudMirchi, we thought she’d thrown her usual pinch of jaggery in. But boy, were we in for a surprise!
This sublime pickle is sweet. But it’s hella fiery too. Just when you feel the smoke starting to come out of your ears, you’ll be assailed by the umami sweetness of pure jaggery. And in between there’ll be tartness, saltiness and sheer, absolute wonder at the complexity of this pickle.
The jaggery used in this pickle is organic and the white vinegar is natural, in keeping with our tenets of using only the finest, most premium ingredients.
Coarsely chopped green chillies are cooked with ginger, garlic and spices before being drowned with a syrup of jaggery and vinegar. Khatta meetha is only one clichéd way to describe the end result!
Pair this achaar with paranthas, dal-chawal or mathris, and we promise you’ll be in heaven. (Psst, we also like the achaar with uttapams, but let’s keep that a secret.)
Ingredients: Green Chilli, Jaggery, Ginger, Garlic, Mustard Seeds, Fennel Seeds, Fenugreek seeds, Cumin, Vinegar, Mustard Oil
Net Weight: 175 gm
Good For: 12 months
Keep refrigerated for longer shelf life.
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After the phenomenal success of Ammiji’s Gudmirchi Achaar, we bring to you its milder, cooler and way more subtle sibling – the Gudnimbu Achaar!
The umami sweetness of organic jaggery, combined with the sharp sourness of seasonal lemons, results in a pickle that’s an explosion of flavours on your tongue. This pickle is not only khatta, it’s meetha, it’s flavorsome and it’s eminently delicious. Ammiji’s penchant for adding a bit of sweetness to any dish comes into play in the recipe for this pickle. The result is a well-balanced condiment that will go with everything from mathris to khichdi to aloo paranthas.
The pickle is subtly spiced with premium spices like brown cardamom, cinnamon and cloves, giving it an irresistible fragrance and a subtle complexity that’s usually missing from most lemon pickles. So go on, indulge your taste buds in an unmistakably khatta-meetha experience!
Oh, and this pickle is made with ZERO OIL, which means you can indulge guilt-free.
Ingredients: Lemon, Organic Jaggery, Salt, Black Salt, Brown Cardamom, Cinnamon, Cloves, Black Pepper, Cumin.
Nett Weight: 300 gms
Best Before 12 months
Refrigerate for longer shelf life.