Spicy Raw Mango Pieces (Pickle/ Salad)

Name: Spicy Raw Mango Pieces (Pickle/ Salad)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 2 min
Total time: 12 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: South Asia — Muslim traditions
Ingredients: 3 small raw mangoes; 0.5 tbsp vegetable oil; 0.5 tsp mustard seeds; 0.25 tsp chili powder; salt

A South Asian salad of mangoes, spiced with mustard seeds and chilli. It comes to the table with hot rice or yoghurt.

12 min · Serves 3 · Easy

Ingredients

3 small raw mangoes, they must be very raw or else it will taste awful
0.5 tbspvegetable oil
0.5 tspmustard seeds
0.25–0.5 tspchili powder, depending upon how hot you want it
salt, to taste

Method

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Time: Prep 10 min · Cook 2 min · 12 min total
Difficulty: easy

1
Cut each mango in half, remove the white seed from each half and discard and finely chop the rest of the mango and place in a salad bowl.
2
Heat the oil on medium heat till very hot (test the heat by dropping a couple of mustard seeds and if they pop immediately, then it's hot enough) and drop the mustard seeds into it and wait for the to pop, then immediately remove from the heat before they burn.
3
Pour the oil and mustard seeds onto the mango pieces, add the other seasoning, mix well together and serve with hot rice and/ or yoghurt.