Sweet & Spicy Mango Pickle

Ingredients

• • Mango pieces (chopped) - 8 cups
• • Green chillies (slit) - 25
• • Dates (seedless) - ½ cup
• • Turmeric powder - 1 ½ teaspoons
• • Mustard - ½ teaspoon
• • Jaggery (grated) - 1 cup
• • Salt - 1 tablespoon
• • Red chilly powder - 1 ½ tablespoons
• • Asafoetida powder - ¼ teaspoon
• • Cinnamon clove powder - ½ teaspoon
• • Groundnut oil - ¼ cup

Method

• 1. Select slightly ripe raw mangoes which are sweet and sour in taste.
• 2. Wash well, spread over a cloth to remove excess moisture. Remove the skin and grated the mangoes.
• 3. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard. When it splutters, add asafoetida, mango pieces, slitted green chilly and turmeric powder.
• 4. Stir for 1 minute and add grated jaggery. Cook in medium flame until mango pieces becomes slightly soft.
• 5. Add salt and dates. Fry for 2 minutes in reduced flame. Stir in between.
• 6. Finally and cinnamon, clove powder, Red Chilly powder and remove from fire.
• 7. Allow to cool and store in a dry bottle.