Studio project by Turnaround. Chhat is invented: no such shop or product exists, and nothing here can be bought.

How sour can
you take it?

Four jars, set out from gentle to eyes shut. Slide to how sour you like it and the right jar steps forward.

  1. A jar of Chhat Garlic pickle with a checked cloth lidCHHATGarlicLahsun, 250 g

    Garlic

    Slow and mellow. The one people eat from the jar.

    Gentle

    250 g, ₹320

  2. A jar of Chhat Green Chilli pickle with a checked cloth lidCHHATGreen ChilliMirchi, 250 g

    Green Chilli

    Slit, stuffed with mustard and soured with lime.

    Tangy

    250 g, ₹300

  3. A jar of Chhat Raw Mango pickle with a checked cloth lidCHHATRaw MangoAam, 250 g

    Raw Mango

    Cut the day it falls. Salt, mustard, a month of sun.

    Properly sour

    250 g, ₹340

  4. A jar of Chhat Lime pickle with a checked cloth lidCHHATLimeNimbu, 250 g

    Lime

    Whole limes, soft enough to eat skin and all.

    Eyes shut

    250 g, ₹280

Pickle jars with cloth lids drying in the sun on a whitewashed roof

A month on the roof

Chhat means roof. Every jar sits out in the sun on ours before it comes to you, the way jars sit out on roofs across north India every April and May.

That's the whole method. Salt, oil, sun, and someone going up the stairs to shake them.

How a jar gets made

Eat it with something hot

A spoon of Raw Mango on a paratha straight off the tawa, with ghee. Each jar's page says what it goes with, and how long it keeps once open.

See all four jars
A spoon of mango pickle beside a hot paratha

Before you order

Will it leak in the post?
Each jar is sealed under the lid, wrapped, and packed upright in a box with paper around it. If oil gets out anyway, send a photo and we post another.
Does it need the fridge?
No. Salt, oil and sun keep it. Use a dry spoon and keep the oil above the pickle.
Any preservatives?
None added. Salt, mustard oil, lime juice and the sun do the keeping, the same as in any home pickle jar. The Lime jar has no oil at all.
I'm allergic to mustard.
Three of the four are made in mustard oil with mustard seed. Lime has no mustard in the recipe but is made in the same kitchen.
How hot is hot?
Each jar has a sour scale and a heat scale on its page. Green Chilli is the only properly hot one.
How long does it take to arrive?
Jars leave the roof on Mondays and Thursdays, and most arrive two to four days later.

Your cart

Jars leave the roof on Mondays and Thursdays, packed upright. Checkout is off, because this is a concept.