manga pachadi | mango pachadi recipe
 
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Serves: 3
Ingredients
Base ingredients:
  • Raw mango - 1
  • Onion - 1
  • Jaggery - ½ cup **Check tips
To Temper:
  • Gingelly oil/Nallennai - 1 tbsp
  • Mustard seeds/Kadugu - ¼ tsp
  • Urad dal/Ulutham paruppu - ¼ tsp
  • Cumin seeds/Jeeragam - ¼ tsp
  • Curry leaves - few
For falvor:
  • Green chilli - 1
  • Turmeric powder - ⅛ tsp
  • Chilli powder or sambar powder - ½ tsp
  • salt - a pinch
Instructions
  1. Wash and peel the skin of raw mango. Cut into small and thin slices, discarding the seed.
  2. Chop onion. Wash few curry leaves, 1 green chilli and keep ready. Add a tbsp of sesame oil to a pan and once hot, add ¼ tsp mustard seeds. Once spluttered, add ¼ tsp urad dal and ¼ tsp jeera.
  3. Once urad dal slightly changes color and cumin seeds start to crackle, add chopped onion, curry leaves and green chilli, with a pinch of salt.
  4. Once onions turn translucent, add chopped raw mango slices and fry for a min. Add ⅛ tsp turmeric powder and ½ tsp chilli powder.
  5. Fry for a minute and then add water till immersing level(I added ¾ cup water).
  6. Cook covered for 10-15 mins in medium-high flame until mango is cooked tender. In a separate pan add ½ cup jaggery in ¼ cup water.
  7. Boil until jaggrey dissolves fully and bubbles up. Strain jaggery syrup to cooked mix.
  8. Cook opened for 10 mins or until desired consistency. I like to have some juice in it.
Notes
1.If you like sour taste, get extremely raw mango. If you wish for less sourness, select mildly ripe mango.
2.Jaggery - ½ cup tightly packed - Sweetish , ½ cup loosely packed - perfect, ⅓ cup tightly packed - mildly sweet. Measure jaggery as per your taste. I chose first measure as I prefer my manga pachadi to be so sweet ;)
3.Do not skip the pinch of salt as it elevates the flavor and sweetness in manga pachadi.
Recipe by My Healthy Kiddo at https://www.myhealthykiddo.com/manga-pachadi-recipe/