Pickle Powder

Thanks to my neighbor who taught me this.This is not only added to pickles but also to certain curries to enhance the flavour

Ingredients
Part 1 - Sun Drying

• Whole dried "Kashmiri Red Chillies" / Badige Mirch - handful / 50g(this is more dried chillies and more red in colour than normal ones)
• Normal Red chillies / Deghee Mirch - 5 to nos

Part 2 - Dry roasting

• Methi seeds - 2 tablespoons
• Turmeric (lenthy one) / Kombu Manjal / Virali manjal - 2 nos

Method
Step 1 Sun Drying

• Keep both types of mirchi / chillies under the sun for 1 hour.You should be able to break the chillies that's the right consistency
• See the picture below: Kasmiri chillies looks more shrunken compared to regular mirchi

Step 2 - Dry roasting

• Crush the turmeric using mortar and pestle

• Dry roast this crushed turmeric and methi seeds 

Step 3 - Pickle Powder

• Cool the dry roasted items.Take it in a mixer jar and grind it along with dried chillies

Now pickle powder is ready.Go ahead and make pickles