Fresh Mango Pickles

Ingredients:

2 large half-riped mangoes(chopped in smaller pieces)

1.5 teaspoons turmeric

1.5 tablespoons masala

2 cups canola/ mustard oil

1 cup sugar(optional)

10 cloves of crushed garlic

3 chillies- crushed

Salt to taste

2 teaspoons black mustard seeds powder

 

Methods:

1) Chop, wash and pat dry mangoes. Add 1 tablespoons salt and toss mangoes with salt. Set mangoes aside overnight. The next day, drain the water extracted from mangoes.

2) Transfer mangoes in a mixing bowl. Add turmeric, masala, crushed garlic and chilli, salt and black mustard powder.

3) Add canola/mustard oil in a pot. Add sugar and heat sugar (optional) with oil till sugar particles have dissolved. Immediately, transfer oil with mango pieces and rest of the ingredients.

4) Stir mangoes with the ingredients and store in a air tight container.

* You can sun dry mangoes for a day or so that will help to preserve the mango pickles