Mukka avakai / Makkala pachadi : Raw Mango Pickle

Ingredients:

1. 1 large raw, sour mango- not peeled and cut into very small pieces.
2. 4 to 5 spoons of fenugreek, roasted evenly and powdered fine.
3. 4 spoons of salt
4. 4 spoons of red chilli powder
5. pinch of turmeric

Ingredients for seasoning:

6. 5 spoons of sesame oil
7. 2 spoons of mustard seeds
8. pinch of fenugreek seeds
9. 2 whole red chillies
10. 4-5 dashes of hing

Process:

1) Take a medium sized bowl and add finely chopped mango pieces.

2) Add turmeric, salt, chilli powder and fenugreek powder. Mix thoroughly. Cover
and leave for 3 hrs.

The mango mixture becomes slightly moist as salt dissolves.

3) Do the tampering with ingredients 6-10. Let the seasoning come to room
temperature before adding to the mango mixture.

Serve with hot rice and drop of ghee.