Left to right
4 bottles of mango and carrot pickle, gunda and mango, fresh turmeric, amba haldi and garmar (tuberous roots of Coleus forskhohlii) pickle, lime and ginger pickles.
In preparation are sprouted methi pickle and green almond pickle
Watch this space for the recipes
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Lipsmacking pickles...waiting eagerly..
Sorry to point his out to you, but Garmar is simply NOT asparagus. It is the root of Turmeric bright orange or white.
Thanks for that Anon, I search high and low, and only found it referred to as asparagus. Please do you have any reference for this.
Very simple. Just bite on a piece of Garmar (termeric root) and then on an Asparagus stock.
Asparagus also grows above ground whereas garmar is a tuber.
more research, apparently garmar are the tuberous roots of Coleus forskolii / or Coleus barbatus
http://www.herbsnspicesinfo.com/medicinal-herbs/coleus-forskohlii.aspx
Bite on a piece of garmar, pungency factor 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. Bite on an asparagus stalk, pungency -25 on a scale of 1 to 10Simple.
You can google all you want and post all the latin words you like but garmar is NOT asparagus!!
By the way did you also know that garmar (turmeric root) is a wonderful antiseptic, cleanser, and an antioxidant. That is why turmeric paste is rubbed on the arms and legs of a Hindu bride prior to her wedding to signify purity.
Did you also know that one is allowed to eat asparagus stalks with one's fingers in British culture.
Anon, you are so right. Garmar is NOT asparagus, but it is also NOT turmeric. Granted that both turmeric and garmar have fantastic properties.
Garmar is the tuberous root of coleus plant.
See http://www.indg.in/agriculture/crop_production_techniques/medicinalcrops/coleus-en.pdf
Saju, garmar comes in two forms, bright yellow/orange and white. The orange variety is peeled, dried and powdered into haldi powder.
They are both used in pulp form in curries from Kerala to Indonesia and beyond.
In fact yellow garmar leaves are used in Maharashtra to steam fish just as the Parsees use banana leaves to cook patra in machli.
Oh? I thought turmeric comes in two forms, amba haldi (white) and haldi (orange) both are rhizomes related to ginger. Haldi / turmeric is dried and ground into haldi poweder. Garmar is different. see link in the above post.
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