Mango Pachadi

Ingredients:

Mango – Raw – big sized – 1

Jaggery – 1 cup

Green chillies – 3

Mustard - 1 tspn

Oil – 2 tspns

Method:

1. Add just enough water and melt the jiggery.

2. Filter away the dirt and keep aside.

3. Peel the skin from the mango and chop it into thin slices.

4. Pressure cook the mango and mash it well to get the pulp.

5. Boil the jiggery to make sticky syrup.

6. Add the mashed mango pulp and stir well till it becomes a semi solid mass.

7. Splutter mustard, fry the green chillies and add it to the mango pulp-jaggery mixture.

This is a special side dish made during the Tami New Year’s Day and has a sweet, sour and spicy taste.

The procedure is to add four or five roasted neem flowers to the pachadi during Tami New Year's Day.

This dish is made to indicate that in the forthcoming new year , one should be ready to face challenges, sweet , sour or spicy !

It can be had with any rice items, and also with chappathis and puris. More chillies can be added according to taste. Do not use very sour mangoes because pachadi will become more tangy.