Spicy hot garlic pickle and Spicy lime pickle

Ingredients:

2 cup washed, peeled garlic cloves

1 tblsp red chilly powder (this is mild spicy, for more spicy add more)

2-3 tbsp mustard seeds

1 tbsp fenugreek seeds

1/4 cup cumin-coriander powder.

1/2 cup lemon juice

2 tsp turmeric powder 

2 tbsp jaggery (optional)

Salt to taste (I used 2 tbsp)

1 cup oil 

Recipe:

1. Grind the dry whole spices- mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds. 

2. To preheated oil, add garlic cloves and cook for 5 minutes to soften the garlic. 

3. Add the ground spices and other powdered spices. Mix turn off the heat. Add microwave melted jaggery and then add salt and lime juice. Let it cool and then transfer to clean, dried glass jar. Enjoy a spoonful garlic pickle with your meals. 

4. I had some left over spices from the garlic pickle. I heated the oil-spice mixture and added washed, dried with cloth quarter cut lemon pieces and thin sliced ginger to the heated oil/spice mix. Cook for 5-7 minutes. Cool and then transfer into glass jar. Enjoy a spoonful spicy lemon-ginger pickle.