Lime pickle

My grandmother's recipe.
Can it go wrong???

Recipe source: Late (Mrs.) Lakshmi Suryanarayana Iyer
Passed on to me by Mrs.Seetha Ananthakrishnan (my aunt). :D

Ingredients:
Lime - 1 kg
Til oil - 1/2 cup + 1/4 cup
Salt
Red chilly - 150 gms or more
Uluva / Methi seeds - 1 tbsp
Asafoetida powder / kayam - 1 tbsp

Method:
Wash the lime very well and wipe dry.

Dry fry the Methi seeds till they pop and keep aside.

Dry fry the red chilly till it becomes a deeper shade of red. Add it to the methi seeds.

Cool and powder. Keep aside until necessary.

Add the 1/2 cup til oil to this and add the lime to it.

Reduce flame and stir often. The lime will blacken and start 'exploding'/ developing cracks.

Remove the lime to a plate to cool.

Wipe well with a tissue paper to remove all the black.

Cut the lime into half, then quarter and then into half - total 8 pieces. Remove all the seeds you can.

Add the powdered chilly-methi powder to the cut pieces.

Add salt.

Mix well.

Heat 1/4 cup til oil in a kadai till smoking point. You can add more oil, if you wish.
Turn off flame.

Add asafoetida powder.

Add it on top of the lime pickle and mix well.
Transfer to an airtight glass container and seal.