italian pizza and indian pickle?

don't go together.

tried sprucing up my bland-ified 2 day old margherita pizza with something other than chilli sauce so I reached for Pathak's Hot Lime achar (really good stuff).

Thing is, the achar (pickle) is so overpowering that when you eat in with the pizza, all you taste is the pickle on a bed of bland chewy cheese and dough. Too strong.

Achar is delicious, deeeeelicious when taken together with Indian lentil curries. My mum makes them the best! Especially red moong lentil curry. Nice blend of garlicky, oniony, lentil-ly, coriander-y flavours with the achar to boost.

When the oily achar blends into the rice and the dhal's flavours, you get to savour the tangy, and spicy lime amidst a sea of flavourful dhal. It changes the flavour totally to lessen the overpowering taste and give u the best of it. And the achar adds variety to the dhal and rice, which would other wise be a pretty boring meal in terms of variety of taste.

Don't know what I mean about that? Ever tried eating a whole plate of rosti?