Aam Ka Chundha - Gujarati Sweet Pickle

Ingredients

• • Mangoes (grated) - 3 cups
• • Salt - 1 tablespoon
• • Turmeric powder - 1 teaspoon
• • Sugar - 6 cups
• • Red chilly powder - 1 tablespoon
• • Asafoetida powder - ¼ teaspoon
• • Cumin seeds - 1 teaspoon

Method

• 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)

Note

• • Add sugar less or more according to the sourness of the mangoes.