Chunda Recipe
Ingredients
Ingredients
1 cup (140 grams) grated raw mango
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp turmeric powder (haldi)
1 1/2 cups (300 grams) sugar
1 tbsp chilli powder
1 tsp roasted cumin seeds (jeera), crushed
Method
Tips
- Combine the grated mangoes, salt and turmeric powder and leave aside for 15 minutes.
- Add the sugar little by little (2 tablespoons at a time) to the mango mixture and stir continuously using a spoon or a whisk till all the sugar is nearly dissolved. The entire process will take about 30 to 35 minutes.
- Heat a pan, add the mango and sugar mixture and go on stirring over a very slow flame till the sugar has dissolved completely and small bubbles appear on the surface of the mixture (approx. 3 to 4 minutes).
- Remove from the flame and let the mixture cool completely.
- Add chilli powder and cumin seeds and store in a sterilised glass jar.
- Store upto 1 year in cool dry place.
Tips
- Use Ladwa, a round variety of raw mangoes available at some vegetable vendors or any other raw mango variety if these are not available.
- If overcooked, the chunda mixture will crystallise the following day.
- In that case, take ¼ cup of grated raw mangoes and add the prepared chunda to the mangoes little by little (2 tablespoons at a time).
- Stir continuously using a spoon or a whisk till the entire mixture is dissolved. Repeat step 3 of the above recipe.
- If the mangoes are too sour you, may need to add extra sugar at step 2.
- VARIATIONS :
- KESAR ELAICHI MANGO CHUNDA
- Use 1 teaspoon each of elaichi powder and khus khus and a few strands of saffron.
- Use the above ingredient in place of turmeric (haldi) powder, chilli powder and cumin seeds for the above recipe.
- Add all these ingredients at step 2 while adding sugar to the chunda.
- DRY FRUIT CHUNDA
- Add ½ cup chopped dry fruits (apricots, almonds, cashewnuts and walnuts) to the Kesar Elaichi Mango Chunda, just before bottling the pickle.
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