Allam Avakkai - Andhra Style

Ingredients

• • Mango pieces (cut with seed) - 4 cups
• • Salt (powdered) - 1 cup
• • Red chilly powder - 1 cup
• • Garlic (peeled) - 50 grams
• • Ginger - 50 grams
• • Mustard powder - 1 tablespoon
• • Gingili oil - 1 cup
• • Fenugreek - 25 grams

Method

• 1. Select thin skinned sour mangoes. Cut into big pieces with inner seed.
• 2. Wash well and spread over a cloth to dry up moisture. (At least 4 hours)
• 3. Pound ginger and garlic coarsely.
• 4. Heat oil and allow to cool.
• 5. Mix salt, Red Chilly powder, mustard powder, fenugreek together.
• 6. Add cooled oil and ginger-garlic paste to this powder and blend properly. Mix this with mango pieces and store it in a dry jar.
• 7. Mix well daily once for 10 days.
• 8. Mix atleast once in three days.
• 9. Pickle gets ready to serve in 10 to 12 days time.