Every Indian is familiar with the popular achaar-paratha combination. Achaars served with parathas or rotis is the quickest meal a housewife can whip up for unexpected guests. In this book, I have included some traditional achaars, which I learnt from my mother including methambo, raiwala marcha, gunda keri, methia keri.Keeping in mind the busy schedule of people who are fond of eating and serving fresh instant achaars for lunch or dinner to their families and are also conscious as regards the quantity of oil used in pickles is a whole section devoted to Oil Free Achaars and Jhatpat Achaar Aur Chutney with recipes for e.g. instant lemon pickle, instant golkeri and fresh ginger turmeric pickle along with a selection of South Indian chutneys.

This book has recipes for some unusual paratha combinations like papad stuffed parathas, onion, cheese and pepper parathas; as also traditional rotis which complements all kinds of spicy pickles and mooli theplas and bajra methi khakras which are ideally accompanied by mango chunda. I have listed down step by step instructions for all the recipes in this book and have streamlined procedures to make pickling easy and fun to work with. Recipes included are -Instant Carrot Pickle; Instant Golkeri; Sweet and Sour Tomato Pickle; Dry Fruit Chunda; Pachranga Achaar; Punjabi Aam Ka Achaar; Bermi Parathas; Stuffed Bajre Ki Roti; Khakharas and Theplas.