Gajar ki Kanji – New Year Festival

New Year’s Recipes

admin December 23, 2020

Ingredients 250 gm: Carrots-preferably the dark variety (called kaali gajar) 3 tbsp: Powdered mustard seeds 6 cups: Water

2 tbsp: Salt

Method

1. Peel the carrots, and cut them into approx. 7 cm / 3″ pieces, not too thin (about finger size).
2. Boil the water and add the carrots to it. When the water comes to a boil again, shut off the heat and leave to cool.
3. Add the salt and the mustard powder, and transfer into a jar with a lid, and keep this in the sun, to mature.
4. In sunny weather, it takes 3-4 days, for the taste of the mustard to become strong.
5. Do not keep the jar in the sun, after it is ready.