Sweet & Spicy Mango Curry

Ingredients
Ripe Mango- 1/2 cup peeled and diced
Brown Sesame seeds- 2 tbsp
Dried Red chillies- 6
Tamarind juice concentrate - 3/4 tsp (i/4 cup if diluted)
Jaggery grated- 2 tbsp
Asafoetida/hing- 1/4 tsp or a pinch
Red Chilli powder -1/4 tsp
Mustard seeds
Curry leaves
Cooking oil

Directions
1. Cook the diced mango in 1 cup of water
2. Heat a pan and add the sesame seeds with red chillies and roast it until it turns golden brown.Allow it to cool
3. When it is cooled , grind it into a smooth paste in a blender with enough water.
4. Add the tamarind juice to it ,and blend again.
5. Now add this paste to the cooked/softened mango pieces and adjust salt.
6. Add grated jaggery to this,and mix well.Switch off the stove
7. Heat oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds ,throw in a few curry leaves and Asafoetida/hing. Pour this over curry.
Serve hot with rice !!!
Recipe courtesy : Yahoo Lifestyle

Vellarikka Manga/Cucumber&Mango in Coconut Gravy

Ingredients

Vellarikka/Cucumber- 1/2 cup cubed

Raw mango - 4-5 one inch pieces(depending on sourness)

Grated coconut - 1 handful

Green chillies - 2-3 cut lengthwise

Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp

Chilly powder- 1/4 tsp

Shallots- 2

Cumin - 1/4 tsp

Red chillies- 2

Mustard 

Salt

Oil

Method 

1. Cook cucumber and mango pieces with green chillies, turmeric powder and chilly powder with enough water until the mango and cucumber are cooked and soft.

2. Meanwhile grind coconut and cumin to a fine paste.

3. When the vegetables are cooked well, add salt and coconut paste to it and heat for a minute while stirring and remove from heat. Take care not to boil it.

4. Heat oil in another pan , splutter mustard seeds, add chopped shallots,red chillies and curry leaves.Saute and add to the gravy .

Serve hot with rice!!