Aam Ka Chundha - Gujarati Sweet Pickle

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Ingredients

1. Select big pickle mango. Wash and spread over a cloth to dry up excess moisture.
2. Scrape outer skin of mango and grate it using big eyed steel grater.
3. Add salt and turmeric powder. Mix well, close with a lid and keep aside for ½ an hour.
4. Add sugar and mix well.
5. Put it in a jar and tie with a thin cloth on top. Keep under hot sun every day for 20 days.
6. Stir well before and after keeping under hot sun. Sugar should dissolve completely.
7. Generally for these type of sweet pickles ants come easily. To prevent that, pour water in a broad bowl, keep the jar in it and keep under the sun. (Keep like this in the house also)
8. Sugar dissolves completely in twenty days.
9. Dry roast cumin seeds and pound coarsely.
10. Mix red chilly powder, asafoetida, cumin seeds powder with pickle and mix well. Tie with a clean cloth on top of the jar. (This process is done only after sugar dissolves completely)