Raw mango curry | മാങ്ങാ കറി

This is a basic and one of my favorite mango curry recipe which my mom prepares at home. She prepare this once in a while with organic raw mangoes. To the basic recipe,  we can add few other ingredients to give additional flavor and taste. Well, it is not mandatory. I prepare Chakkakuru manga chaaru (I have mentioned about it below) when I get jack fruit seeds. Else it is a basic mango curry I prepares at home. Adding drumstick is again not mandatory. Some times I skip it.

For basic mango curry 
You need,

• Raw/Green Mango – 1 medium sized skinned and shopped into medium cubes
• Turmeric powder – a pinch
• Salt to taste
• Water – 1/4 to 1/2 cup

To grind

• Grated coconut – 1 cup
• Cumin seeds – 1/4 tsp
• Garlic – 1 tiny clove
• Green chili – 2 nos slit
• Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
• Dry Red chili – 1
• Water – 1/4 to 1/2 cup

Tempering

• Coconut/Refined Oil – 2 tsp
• Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
• Shallots chopped -3
• Dried red chilies – 2
• Curry leaves of a strip

You have to,

Step 1
Grind all the ingredients a fine smooth paste( you can add little by little of water)

Step 2
1. Cook the cubed mango pieces with turmeric, salt and 1/4 to 1/2 cup of water
2. You can mash the mangoes with a bottom portion of a laddle. (Else you can even blend it once it is cooled down)
4. Add the coconut paste to cooked mango
5. Heat till simmer for a few minutes. Stir continuously. keep aside.

Step 3
1. Heat oil in a tawa or pan
2. Add broken dried red chillis
3. Add the mustard seeds and allow to pop up
4. Add sliced shallots and saute till it turns dark brown
5. Add in the curry leaves saute and transfer over the the mango curry

Variations 1 : Using jack fruit seeds and/or drumstick

You need,

• Jack fruit seeds – 1 cup
• Drumstick – 1 no
• Asafoetida – a pinch
• Water – 1 cup

You have to

• Peel the outer skin and the inner brown skin of jack fruit. This is a slightly time consuming job.
• Once done wash well and chop them into small pieces 
• Scrape the skin or drumstick and cut it in to 2.5 inch long pieces 
• In a sauce pan add all the above ingredients and 2 cup of water. 
• Cook this in medium  flame till the seeds are cooked. (In a cooker 1 whistle should do)
• Add this to the uncooked mango pieces in Step 2 and continue the rest of the steps above..

Variation 2 : Adding curds
I add 1 cup of fresh curds whisked at 2nd Step, number 4.

Serve with rice