Parsi Wedding Pickle

Lagan Nu Achar

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  • Makes about

    8 quarts

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    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Niloufer Ichaporia King

Published 2007

  • About

If we were Chinese, we’d call this Eight Treasure Pickle or something equally poetic. It’s the first thing served at a Parsi wedding, or for a Navjot. You sit before a pair of overlapping banana leaves while servers file by with the first offerings—a dollop of this hot, sweet, mustardy “pickle” (technically a chutney) accompanied by a pile of potato wafers and a rotli. The banquet of ten courses, all rich, all delicious, all offered twice, has officially begun. Like any of the other

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