Monday, December 18, 2006

Ripe Mango Curry With Fried Coconut Paste

Ingredients
Ripe Mango Pieces 2 cups

Onion pieces ½ cup

Grated coconut 2 cups

Green chillis 4

Dry chillis 10
For SeasoningOil 2 dsp

Sliced shallots 1 dsp

Cumminseed 1 tsp

Turmeric powder 1 tsp

Cinnamon 1 piece

Cloves 4

Curds 2 dsp

Sugar 1 tsp

Fenugreek 1 ½

Mustard 1 tsp

Method

Fry the coconut and broken pieces of dry chillis till brown. Grind it to a fine paste. Cook the mango pieces with 2 cups of water in which the coconut paste is diluted. Put the spices, slit green chillis, the turmeric powder and enough salt. After the mango pieces are cooked add the sugar and the beaten curds. Fry the ingredients for the seasoning in oil and pour into the curry.

Mango Molee

Ingredients
Mango pieces 1 cup
Onion pieces 1 cup
Dry chillis 10
Turmeric powder ¼ tsp
Fenugreek ¾ tsp
Mustard ½ tsp
Curry leaves 2 springs
Oil 2 dsp
Grated coconut 2 cups
Salt
MethodExtract the first and 2nd milk adding ¾ and 1 ½ cups of water each. Take the skin of the dry chillis and grind. Heat oil, splutter the fenugreek, curry leaves and mustard. Put the chilly paste and turmeric powder and sauté well. Add and fry the onions till soft. Pour the 2nd milk and salt to taste. Put the mango pieces and cook for some time. Finally before you take it off the fire add the 1st milk and simmer till the gravy is rather thick.