Receta Indian mix vegetable pickle for winter

With new hopes, aspirations and resolutions we are welcoming 2015 on a spicy note. Well, little unconventional way to welcome the new year, but the season is waning, and so the winter fresh vegetables and before the season last, I want you to make this spicy lip smacking Indian mix vegetable pickle.

Pickles do not hold a significant place in Bengali cuisine, but having spent most of my formative years in the jungles of Madhya Pradesh / Chattisgarh (in the news for all the wrong reasons now), pickles were staples in my home. In those days, access to ready-made foods were perhaps privilege to the urbanites, nor that there were many brands were popular, so in my home summers were spent mostly in pickle making sessions. Rainy seasons…