Aam ka Chunda – Gujarati mango pickle

Ingredients :

• 1 kg – Raw mangoes
• 1 kg – Sugar
• Salt –  To taste
• Cloves – 7 nos
• Cinnamon sticks – 3
• Red chilli powder – 2tbsp
• Cumin seeds – 1tbsp

Method:

1. Peel & grate the mango
2. Mix the grated raw mango along with sugar &  salt.  Mix well in a steel bowl,
3. Cover the bowl with a cloth and set is aside for a day indoors.
4. The next day, sugar would have  melted. Mix well, cover it again and place under sunlight.
5. Repeat the same process for 8 days.
6. After 8 days open and mix well and then add cloves, cinnamon sticks, red chill powder, and cumin powder. Mix well. Cover and place under sunlight for 4 hours.
   Store it in a glass jar. This does not need refrigeration.

Note :

• If sugar has not melted, then the pickle is not ready.

Recipe contributed by: Nidhi Shrimali from Ahmedabad.