sister herb
Official TTI Chef
Gooseberries - 1 heaped cup
Sugar 3/4 cup
Water - 1/4 cup
Honey - 2 tblspn
Cardamom - a pinch
Method
Wash and dry the berries. Prick with a skewer/toothpick at few places on each berry. Prepare sugar syrup. When the syrup is sticky, i.e. prior to one thread consistency, add the berries and turn well. The moisture released from the berries will make the syrup thin. Continue cooking till the syrup attains the one thread consistency. Add honey and cardamom powder. Cook for 2 minutes and remove from fire. Cool and store in dry glass jar.
Since the berries are also cooked, it gets soaked faster. You can eat the berries the next day itself. But as it ages, it gets more soft and tastes better with soaking. You drizzle the syrup on poories, rotis or bread too. The syrup tastes delicious with the juice of the gooseberries blended in.
Source: http://kailaskitchen.blogspot.fi/2009/11/honey-gooseberries-indian-gooseberries.html
Note that in recipe is used Indian gooseberries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllanthus_emblica