Take a clean sterilized glass jar with a tight lid. The size of the jar we are using is 1.5 kg.

Initially add rock salt, regular salt, turmeric powder, asafoetida/hing, carom seeds and grated jaggery.

Then add juice of 3 to 4 lemons.

Mix it either using a wooden ladle or by shaking the jar after closing it with a lid.

Here the base is ready and now onwards you can start adding lemon peels on daily basis or whenever you use the lemon/s and peel is left. No strict rule about the number of peels or daily addition. Add as many as and whenever you have.

On first day we are going to add the peels of those 3 lemons, whose juice we have added to make the base. For that make sure there remains not even a single seed.

Then cut the peels in desired size. We prefered to cut them in bite sizes.

Add these cut peels in the jar.

Give it a good mix.

Once in a week or whenever you feel that peels are turning dry due to the lack of lemon juice, add a juice of 1 or 2 lemons. This is for you to judge how much juice is required to moist the peels. Having lemon juice in the jar doesn't mean peels should be seen floating but they just look wet and not dry. In the duration of 31 days, we added juice of almost 10-12 lemons from time to time.

When the jar is 3/4 filled, we decided to stop adding more peels as there needed to be a space for stirring or shaking the peels. It took us peels of around 60 lemons and 31 days in filling this much of jar because there is not so much of utility of lemons in our house. We hardly use 2 lemons daily on average.

So when you decide to stop adding more peels because jar is filled enough, taste an old peel to check whether there's anything more needed or not.

We tasted and found that salt and sweetness wasn't enough so added 1 tbsp salt and 3-4 tbsp crushed jaggery because pickle wasn't sweet at all. We also added 1 tbsp red chilli powder because it wasn't added initially.

Again mix by any of the method.

Now tightly close the jar and put it under the sun for 3-4 days.

Finally the lemon peels pickle is ready to be consumed.