Aam Kasondi - Mango pickle

(Mango pickle with mustard)

Ingredients:

• Green mangoes
• Coarse Salt
• Ginger paste
• Red chilli powder
• Mustard powder
• Ripe tamarind (seedless
• Mustard oil
• Salt for taste.

Unwrap and remove the seeds of the mangoes and cut into equal small pieces.

Mix in the common salt. Use ordinary sea salt and not iodized salt because iodized salt is not a preservative. Place in a wooden or a porcelain bowl. 

Now leave this bowl in the sun for a couple of days until the mango pieces become quite soft. Lightly press and drain the excess liquid accumulated in the bowl. Now add to the mangoes all the spices, the ripe tamarind and salt. 

Mix carefully. In a large aluminum pan heat the oil until a blue haze appears. Add the spiced mango pieces into this. Stir and mix carefully with the oil and eliminate from fire. Allow to cool and then transfer into an airtight glass or stoneware jar. After some days your can serve it with any dish.