Sweet and spicy Mambazha pulissery

Mambazha pulissery is a part of Grand Kerala Sadya (the feast) cuisine and goes well with parboiled rice.

Ingredients

• • 8 Ripe mangoes (small to medium sized)
  • ½ tsp Turmeric powder
  • 1tsp Red chilli powder
  • ½ Scraped coconut
  • 1 tsp Cumin
  • ½ litter thick curd, a little sour
  • 1 tsp Fenugreek powder
  • 1 tbsp Coconut oil
  • 1 tsp Mustard
  • 2 Dry red chillies
  • 10-12 Curry leaves

  Salt to taste

• Preperation

1. Cook mangoes, chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt in a cup of water over medium flame.
2. Using a mixer, grind the coconut and cumin into a fine paste.
3. Add the coconut paste to the mangoes just as they begin to cook.
4. When the coconut and mangoes have cooked evenly, add the beaten curd.
5. Cook for a very short time (do not allow the curd to boil)and remove it from the stove.
6. Allow it to cool slightly and then sprinkle the fenugreek powder over it.
7. In a pan heat the oil add the curry leaves, mustard, dry red chilies and stir to fry them.
8. Top the mango curry with the stir fried mix.
9. Serve it hot with parboiled rice.

Tip: this curry is best cooked in a clay pot.