Ripe Mango Curry

Ingredients:  Tamarind, dried chilies, one ripe yellow mango, asafoetida/hing, some curry leaves, 

jaggery, sesame seeds and mustard seeds.This curry is sweet, spicy and tangy all at once. 

Sweetness from the mango, tangy sourness from the tamarind and spice from the chillies.
So first, slice and dice your mangoes, and then pluck out the soft pulpy insides into a bowl

 

Meanwhile you can begin to roast your spices on an open pan.

 Spread your sea same seeds and dried chili onto the pan and roast till it turns to a 

golden brown. 

Roasting the spices is definitive to the flavor of the dish. 

Keep an eye on the color as it turns, to make sure you don’t burn it – or the whole dish

 could be ruined!
Once the spices are nice and golden, put it into a blender and grind into a paste. 

This is where all that delicious flavor comes from! 

Remember the tamarind? This next step is where we use it. 

Remove the tamarind pulp and mush it around in a glass of warm water to 

release the flavour. 

Once the water turns into a light brown color, you can squeeze out the tamarind 

and discard it; 

we will only need its liquid flavor. Add that to your spice mix.

Your mango should be getting soft, and slowly disintegrating over the fire. 

To that lovely yellow pulp, we add some grated jaggery.

 Jaggery has a fuller sweetness than sugar, and it’s more local, which is a philosophy 

we try to follow –

 using good, clean, fresh and local products in every dish.

Now, pour in that creamy spice paste into the mango pulp.

Some red chili powder and salt to taste.

And finally, a little tadka to bring all the flavors of the dish together: 

2 teaspoons of hot oil in a pan, hot enough for the mustard seeds to burst on contact, 

and some of the hing we kept aside in the beginning.

Throw in a few curry leaves to bring out that mouth-watering aroma.

And your mango curry is ready to be plated!
Nothing goes better with this sweet and spicy curry than some beautifully steamed white rice.
Soul food for the balmy summer heat!

 

 

(Adapted from an article on yahoo website)