Manga inchi achar / mango ginger pickle / മാങ്ങാ ഇഞ്ചി അച്ചാർ / .

Manga inchi achar / mango ginger pickle / മാങ്ങാ ഇഞ്ചി അച്ചാർ / . It is super  in taste and aroma. I usually follow the kerala's tradinional way of making pickles. For that,i always use homemade fried Compounded  Asafoetida powder and roasted fenugreek powder and sundried kashmiri chilli powder. All these give grandma's pickles' special taste and tangy aroma.

Ingredients

1) Mango-ginger    .....    1kg   (peel,wash and cut into desired pieces)

2) fenugreek           .....  2tbs

3) Compounded
         Asafoetida      ....... 25 gm(chopped)

4)  gingelly oil          ......... 3tbs

5)  garlic
     (peeled&halved)  ........ 1/4  cup

6)  kashmiri chilli
                Powder      ........... 6tbs

7)  turmeric pwdr      ........   a pinch

8)  gingelly oil            .........  1/2  cup

9)  salt                         ........  3-4tbs as per 
                                                  your taste                                          

10) curry leaves          ...... 3 string

11)  mustard                 ....... 2 tsp

12)  fenugreek               ....... 1/2 tsp

13)  vinegar                    ........  2 cup +
                                                  1tsp sugar

Roast fenugreek in a heavy bottom pan or kadai and remove it.

Add 3tbs gingelly oil to the same pan and stir fry chopped Asafoetida

(Grind roasted fenugreek and fried asafoetida together.)

Heat 1/2 cup gingelly oil in the same pan.

splutter mustard first and then fenugreek.

Add curry leaves

then add garlic , stir

when starts browning remove from the stove

and keep stirring for 15 sec.

At this time , add chilli pwdr and turmeric powder , stir well

and add salt, again stir well

then add vinegar 

and just boil

switch off the flame

and remove from the stove

and add grounded fenugreek and asafoetida pwdrs.

Allow to cool. 

Then add mango-ginger pieces and mix well.
At this time check salt.

Fill it in a clean glass jar and Keep this pickle undisturbed for two days for  the flavours to set in.

Then keep it in refrigerator..

Use only after one week.

Try this ..