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Mathur's Hari Mirch ka achar ( Green Chilly Pickle - Mathur Style)

Ingredients

Mustard oil - 250 ml
Green chillies - 250 gms
Salt - 3 tablespoons
Black rai - 3 heaped tablespoon
Saunf - 3 heaped  tablespoon
Amchur powder - 3 heaped tablespoon
Hing - a pinch
Red chilli powder - optional - 1/4th tsp
Haldi - 1/2 tsp


Method

1. Heat and cool oil and keep aside.
2. Wash the green chillies ( these are the pickle chillies ) which can be filled. Dry them on paper towels.
3. Cut the stem of the chillies. Leave only the head on top.
4. Slit the chillies lengthwise and keep aside.
5. Coarsely grind saunf and keep aside.
6. Coarsely grind rai and keep aside.
7. Now mix the rai, saunf, amchoor, salt, hing and red chilli powder in a plate.
8. Add 4 tablepoon of mustard oil from the cooled oil. Mix the masala well together.
9. Stuff the chillies with this masala.
10. Keep chillies in a bottle and pour the remaining oil in the bottle.
11. Cover the bottle with a muslin cloth and keep this in sun for a day.

Enjoy the achar with paranthas and puris.

If you don't like mustard oil use groundnut oil or sesame oil :)
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