Easy Mango pickle/Manga Achar

This is an easy mango pickle recipe which is specially made during sadyas in my native place.

Ingredients:

• Mango-1
• Green chilly(chopped)-4
• Red chilly powder-3 tspoon
• Coriander powder-1 pinch
• Water-1/4 cup
• Salt to taste

For Seasoning:

• Oil-1 tspoon
• Dry red chilly-2
• Mustard-1 tspoon
• Curry leaves-1 pinch

Preparation:

(1) Wash and clean mango. Chop into small pieces. Don't peel its skin.

(2) Take a bottle and add chopped mango, green chilly,water and salt. Cover the bottle and keep it for one day. Have a look over my horlicks bottle on day 2 :) (This is "uppilitta manga"…You can try this too by adding more water without proceeding to next step)

(3) On next day take out the bottled contents in a vessel. Add chilly powder and coriander powder. Mix well ( you can make a salt test here).

(4) Drain water from mangoes and keep it aside.

(5) Heat oil in a pan. Add dry red chilly. Then add mustard. When it crackles add curry leaves.Now pour the water that you kept aside to this seasoned ingredients.

(7) Now pour it to the mango slices. Mix well.

Your mango pickle is ready....

Replace it to your bottle.....

Tip:

• Add small amount of water because water will oozes out from mango itself that u can notice on day 2. Add more water if you want more gravy.