Kacha Aamer Tak

Kacha Aamer Tak 

It's scorching hot outside in Delhi and the temperature is soaring high day by day! So to beat the heat and give comfort to our tummies prepared some sweet and sour chutney with raw mangoes. We call it Kacha Aamer Tak. 

Recipe 

Ingredients 

2-3 raw mangoes peeled and cut into medium pieces 

1/4 teaspoon mustard seeds 

1/4 teaspoon fennel seeds 

1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder 

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup sugar or jaggery 

1 teaspoon mustard oil for tempering 

1 to 2 dried chillis 

1 pinch of powered panch phoron (A mix of mustard,  fenugreek,  fennel, onion and cumin seeds)

How to cook 

In a wok add the mustard oil and when it starts smoking add the mustard and fennel seeds and dried chillis and let it fry. Then add the pieces of mangoes to it. Add salt and turmeric powder and saute for sometime.  Now add sugar and stir it well. Keep it on medium flame and then add 2 cups of water to it. Cover it with a lid and let it cook for sometime. Once the mango pieces become tender turn off the gas.  Add the pinch of paanch phoron powder to it.  Mix well and pour it in a ceramic bowl.  Remember never to use a steel utensils for storing any kind of chutney. The chemical present may react witb steel and lead to food poisoning.