Shrimp Pickle

Ingredients

• 250 g shrimps • 1 cup oil • 100 g ginger-garlic paste • 100 ml vinegar • 4 tsp red chilli paste • 4 tsp sugar (optional) • 6 tsp red chilli powder • 1 tspb king soda (optional) • 5 green chillies • saIt to taste

For chilli paste

Soak 2 dried red chillies, 10 cloves garlic and a pinch of salt in 1/4 cup vinegar for 1 hour. Grind to a smooth paste.

Method

Shell, devein and wash the shrimps, then drain out the excess water. Heat 3 tbsp of water, add the shrimps, add salt and cook on a medium flame till they shrink. Lower the flame and add the ginger-garlic paste, chilli paste and red chilli powder. Add the green chillies and stir. Mix half the quantity of vinegar and cook for a minute. Then add half the quantity of oil and cook for 2 minutes. Add the sugar and stir well. Add the remaining vinegar and oil and cook for about 5 minutes.

Remove from the stove and cool before storing in a jar.

Note: To preserve the shrimp pickle for a few months, put 1 tsp of baking soda in l/2 tsp of lukewarm water and add this to the pickle before removing it from the flame.