Mangalorean Mango Curry | Ambe Upkari
a traditional mango delicacy from the Konkani cuisine.
Servings 4
Ingredients
- 5 to 7 small, ripe mangoes
- 4 green chillies
- 3 tbsp of jaggery pieces
- Salt as per taste
- ½ cup Mango puree (optional)
- 2 tbsp cornflour
For seasoning
- a tbsp of oil
- 1 tsp udad dal
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 10 to 12 Curry leaves
- 2 dry red chillies
Instructions
- Wash the mangoes and peel them.
- In a mixing bowl, place the mango peels and add a glass of water.
- Squeeze the mango peels with your hands and extract juice out of the mango peels as much as possible.
- Discard the peels.
- Heat a pan.
- Add the skinned mangoes, the mango juice extracted from the peels and mix.
- Add green chillies, jaggery, salt and mix.
- Now, stir in the mango puree.
- Cook covered for 5 minutes.
- In the meantime, in a bowl, add the cornflour , little water and mix well.
- Add the cornflour mixture to the mango curry.
- Cook covered for 7 to 10 minutes. Keep this aside.
- For the seasoning, heat 1 tbsp oil in a small pan.
- Add udad dal, mustard seeds, curry leaves and dried red chillies.
- When they start spluttering, pour the seasoning into the mango curry.
- Serve the Mangalorean mango curry with steaming hot rice.