Mambazha Pulisseri (Mango-Curd Curry)

Mambazha Pulisseri  (Mango-Curd Curry)

Mango season is here!! So how could we be not making a dish with this awesome fruit? Neither can any Keralite ever miss the chance of tasting the traditional “mambazha pulisseri” which is the dish of the season! It is said that this recipe is well appreciated if the mango variety named “chandrakkaran” is used for making it. Well, we believe any mango variety is equally lovely. So here goes the recipe...do try out for your lunch and just enjoy!

Ingredients:

1.       Ripe Mangoes                   3 medium

 or mango slices                200g

2.       Jaggery                                 2 tsp

3.       Water                                   ½ cup

4.       Turmeric Powder             1 tsp

5.       Salt                                         1 tsp

6.       Coconut scrapings           40g

7.       Green chillies                     3 large

8.       Cumin                                   ½ tsp

9.       Sour Curd                            1 cup

10.   Oil                                           1 tbsp

11.   Mustard seeds                    ½ tsp

12.   Curry leaves                       3-4 nos.

13.   Dry Red chilli                      1no.

14.   Fenugreek                          1 tsp

Method:

1.       Cook ingredients 1-5 in a pan, stirring slightly in between. Do not mash the mango slices. Remove from fire after 5 mins.

2.       Grind ingredients 6-9 in a mixie or food processor, add this mixture to the cooked mango-jaggery mix and cook for one more minute and remove from fire.

3.       In a pan heat oil and then add ingredients 11-14. When the mustard seeds start to pop switch off the flame.

4.        Add this seasoning to the mango curry and serve hot with rice.

Serves 4

Nutritional Information:

1 serving of the curry gives 2.3 g of protein, 10.1 g of fat, 13.6 g of carbohydrates, 154.7 Kcal of Energy, 84.5 mg of calcium and 0.98 mg of iron.