Adamanga Achar /Adamanga Pickle

Ingredients

1.Dried adamango slices - 1 cup
2.Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
3.Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
4.Fenugreek powder - 1/4 tsp
5.Asafoetida powder/Kayam - 1/4 tsp
6.Gingerly oil /Nallenna - 1/2 cup
7.Curry leaves

Preparation

1.Soak the dried mango slices in water for 1 hour.Heat the oil in a pan and splutter the mustard seeds and add curry leaves to it.

2.Add the mangoes to the oil then add the red chilli powder,fenugreek powder,asafoetida powder to it and mix it well.Then turn off the fire.

Because of it dry taste it is different from all the other kind of achar.

Mambazha pulissery(Mango curry)

Its the time when all mango trees will be flowered and we have to wait two months for ripening season in kerala.In that one month we eat a lot of mangoes.Here comes the recipe with ripe mangoes.It is a sweet and sour dish and everyone will like it.I tasted it in all season of mangoes.But the taste of that curry from one of my friend's house wow i can't forget that.Every time when she opens her lunch box during that season its smell made me to eat the food.And she also bring it in large quantity for us.So i learned this recipe from my friend ,and she from her mother.Her name is Remya and now she is in Dubai,thank you Remya.Here is the recipe

Ingredients

Ripe Mangoes -3 or 4 no

Curd - 1 cup

Coconut - 1 cup

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

Green chillies - 2 or 3

Red chilly powder - 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves - one pinch

Mustard seed -1/2 tsp

Fenu greek seed - a small pinch

Red chillies - 2 no

Oil - 2 tsp

Salt for taste

Preparation

1. Peel off the ripe mangoes and put the fleshy mangoes in water ,if the mangoes are big cut it into 4 pieces,add turmeric powder,slitted green chillies ,red chilly powder,salt to it.Cook the mangoes

2. Now grind the coconut with cumin seeds,and add it to the cooked mango and cooked again for 5 to 6 mts.Then pour the curd to it and don't allow to boil.

3. Now turn off the stove and in another pan heat oil and splutter the mustard seeds ,add fenugreek seed red chillies and curry leaves and pour it to the curry.

Now the delicious mambazha pulissery is ready to serve.................try it