MAGAI PICKLE

Ingredients :

• 25 big size raw mangoes
• 750 gms salt
• ½ kg red chili powder
• 50 grams turmeric powder
• 125 grams fenugreek seeds
• 250 grams mustard powder
• 1 kg husked sesame seed oil
• 1 tsp Asafetida
• 2 tsp Mustard seeds

Method :

Wash the raw mangoes well and wipe them clean. Cut them into thin flat slices of an inch wide and two inches long. Mix the pieces with 500 gms of salt and turmeric little by little. Store the mix in an air tight ceramic jar. When mixed with salt mango pieces ooze water. On the third day squeeze the pieces of the sap and spread on a plate. Sun dry the pieces until the dampness disappears (don't let the pieces harden). Keep the jar along with the sap in the sun. Once dried add the remaining salt into the sap along with red chili powder, fenugreek powder and mustard powder. Now add the dried mango slices to this mix. Heat sesame seed oil in a wok and add mustard seeds and asafetida. Allow the oil to cool and mix into the pickle. Store in a ceramic jar. Can store for more than a year.