MANGO ALLAM PACHADI

INGREDIENTS

Raw mango pieces – 2 cups

Ginger pieces – 1 cup

Grated jaggery – 3 cups

Red chilli powder – 3/4 cup

Oil – 1 1/2 tbsp

Salt to taste

TALIMPU [ optional ]

Oil – 1 tsp

Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp

Mustard seeds = 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves – few

METHOD

1. Peel mangoes and cut into cubes. Keep it aside.
2. Wash and clean the ginger. Cut the ginger into pieces and keep it aside.
3. Grate the jaggery and keep it aside.
4. Heat oil in a pan . Fry chopped ginger for 2 minutes. Switch off the flame and cool it.
5. Take a grinder jar and add mango pieces, grated jaggery, salt and fried ginger.
6. Grind it to a paste. Then add red chilli powder and grind for one more time. Transfer it to a bowl.
7. Check out salt . For talimpu, heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds.
8. Let them splutter and add all the remaning ingredients and fry for a few seconds and pour it over the grinded pachadi.
9. Mix well. Can be served with vada, idli, dosa, pesarattu. You can serve pachadi without the talimpu also.

* This recipe was given to me by my sister valli.