Mangai Pachadi / Hot and sweet raw mango pachadi
This is one of those south Indian dishes that you come across in weddings and poojas and festivals. It's best served plopped on a banana leaf among 20 other dishes. Think mango ginger chutney/jam, for the uninitiated. A few days back the husband and I we were looking at a friend's wedding photos and were talking about missing kalyaana saapad (elaborate feast served on a banana leaf exclusively at weddings). So I ended up making the easiest part of the kalyana feast :)
1. Raw mangoes - I used frozen ones. A handful of cut pieces. If u r using fresh ones , use judiciously because if it turns out too sour, then the dish will lose its balance of flavors
2. Ginger - grated- 1 tspn
3. Green chillies - 3 or 4
4. Jaggery/ Dark brown sugar - 1 tspn
5. Salt - as per your preference
1. Mustard seeds - 1/4 tspn
2. Cumin seeds - 1/4 tspn
1. In a saucepan, add the mango pieces and cover them with just enough water to immerse the pieces. Cover and cook with jaggery or brown sugar.
2. Keep cooking the pieces until they become soft and almost disintegrated, then add the ginger so u don't burn it.
3. In a tadka ( a small pan used exclusively for tempering) pan, add some oil, and the ingredients listed.
4. Add it to the mango pulp and add salt per taste.
P.S - I still haven't figured out what's the best way to eat this. May with be dosas or idlis. My husband eats it as it is.