Mango-Ginger Pickle/Manga Inji Achar

Does that ring a bell? Mango ginger-a spice crop which has the goodness of both Mango and ginger.

Looks of ginger and taste of raw mango with a tinch of ginger kick!

Botanically speaking this spice is neither related to mango nor ginger, but to turmeric instead

Interested to know more about the Mango Ginger. Here you go

The rhizome has excellent medicinal properties and finds extensive use in the indigenous system of medicine. It is, appetizer, antipyretic, aphrodisiac and laxative. It is useful in biliousness, itching, skin diseases, bronchitis, asthma, hiccough and inflammation due to injuries. The rhizomes and roots are carminative and stomachic and in crushed pulp form they are applied over contusions, sprains and bruises for rapid healing.

Info Courtesy: Kissan Kerala

Mango-Ginger Pickle/Manga Inji Achar 

Ingredients

1/3 Cup Mango Ginger

2 tspn Red Chili powder

2 tspn Sesame Oil

½ tspn Roasted Fenugreek powder

Curry leaves 10 nos

2 Dried Red chillies

½ tspn Mustard seeds

Salt to taste

Directions

Peel of the skin and finely chop the Mango ginger

Add the salt and chili powder to it and mix well.

Now prepare the tempering by heating the oil in a pan.

Once the oil is hot enough, add in the mustard seeds.

Once it crackles add the roasted fenugreek powder, curry leaves and dried red chilies

Sauté for few seconds and add this to the marinated mango ginger and mix well.
Let it sit for a day and have it the following day, that way it tastes better !