Lime pickle isn’t just a condiment for curries

Traditionally Lime pickle has been used as a condiment to give a tangy twist to many different meals. Lime pickle can be used to enhance or provide a contrasting flavour to most meals including meat, chicken, fish and vegetarian dishes. Lime pickle can add an exotic touch to the plainest of meals.

The following how to use Lime pickle tips came from a good friend of mine called Prashant. I’ve added a couple of my own lime pickle tips too!

Prashant’s tips for using lime pickle

Lime pickle and rice

Add lime pickle to rice and mix it well. Eat with a chappati and enjoy it. You’ll be suprosed at how attractive it and good it tastes.

Lime pickle and hard boiled eggs

Hard boil one or two eggs and then remove the shells. Slice the eggs either with a knife or an egg slicer. Add a teaspoon or two of lime pickle to taste and gently toss. Put the mixture of boiled egg and lime pickle on a slice of toasted bread and enjoy the combination of tastes.

Using the same mixture in a french stick is also nice to eat.

Scrambled eggs and lime pickle

Scrambled eggs can be a little bland unless you pep them up a bit. Use lime pickle as an additive when scrambling the eggs with some crumbled cheese or use the lime pickle as a topping. Scrambled eggs will never be boring again!

Lime pickle with Pappadoms

Lime Pickle with a pappadom is commonly eaten as a starter and served in most Indian restaurants in the Western hemisphere.

Pappadoms can be fried or dry roasted but which ever is your preference. Take a small piece of a pappadom, add some tangy Lime pickle and a small amount of onion salad and simply eat!

The combination of the taste of lime pickle and cool onion salad is something to be believed.

Lime Pickle, yoghurt and rice

Quite often after cooking a rice based dish, there is some boiled rice left over sitting in the fridge. Combining it with yoghurt and lime pickle is an excellent and tasty way to use it up!

This simple recipe can be used as a nice starter to many different main meals. It also makes a nice side dish at a barbecue with the slight tang of the lime pickle and soothing taste of yoghurt.

Mix the rice with plain yoghurt. You need to mix each cup full of rice with approximately three table spoons of plain yoghurt. Add a teaspoon of Lime pickle and mix all three ingredients well and its ready to eat.

This is a simple meal often eaten in Southern India.

Lime Pickle tacos

This is a delightfully simple recipe using lime pickle as a substitute for traditional salsa.

Scramble a few eggs with canned black beans. Add the mix to tortillas and season with Lime Pickle instead of salsa. This simple dish works great as a starter to any Mexican meal!

Using lime pickle with fish

Lime Pickle is a superb accompaniment to any fish dish however its been cooked. Bear in mind that there are various types of lime pickle ranging from mild to spicy hot and also sweet varieties so you don’t need to overpower a delicately flavoured fish.

Try a different approach to using lime pickle.

If you are going to barbecued prawns or fish, marinate them in lime pickle for a few hours prior to cooking! The combined taste of lime pickle marinated fish or prawns combines spectacularly with a smokey barbecue sauce.

Lime pickle in a cheese sandwich

If your considering having cheese sandwiches and the cheese is a mature cheddar or other strong flavoured cheese. Consider spreading a little lime pickle on the cheese. It’s a nice combination of flavours, a strong cheese with tangy lime.

Other suggestions for using lime pickle

Using lime pickle to cook with

I use oil based lime pickle as well as others to cook with quite often.

Try cooking bacon with lime pickle. Bacon is a quite a sweet tasting meat and instead of using an oil in the frying pan, use a small amount of lime pickle.

The combination of tangy lime with the sweetness of bacon is mouth watering.

If you grill bacon, put a slight smear of lime pickle on the bacon before grilling for the same taste.

Try a lemon pickle when cooking chicken.

Lime pickle in salads

Lime pickle lends itself really well when preparing salads. It doesn’t replace a salad dressing of vinaigrette, It does however enhance the salad when mixed with cheese for instance.

Cut the cheese into small cubes and mix with a small amount of lime pickle. A mild lime pickle or lemon pickle is more suitable for more delicate flavours like chicken though the process is exactly the same.

Once the cheese is lightly coated with lime pickle, add it to the salad and then toss it. The coolness of a dressed salad with the combination of cheese with a slight tang of lime is superb.

Have you ever thought of making your own lime pickle? It tastes much better than commercially available pickle. It doesn’t take that much time or trouble to make. Try this lime pickle recipe!

Hope you try a few of these tips on how to use lime pickle. You won’t regret it!

Chris Nizzi.

Lime pickle, a prince among pickles!