AAM KHATA (Mango sweet & sour)

Ingredients :
Raw mango 200gms (peeled and chopped into 5-6 pieces)
Turmeric powder 1tsp
Panchphutan 1tsp (mix of five spices- jeera, meethi, sarson ,saunf & kala jeera)
Hing 1tsp (Asafoetida)
Kari patta 6-7 leaves (curry leaves)
Dried red chilli 1
Ginger-garlic paste 2tsp
Sugar / Gud/jaggery (1 cup) or according to the amount of sweet you want to eat.
Saunf powder 1tbsp (fennel seed powder)
Methi powder 1 tsp (fenugreek powder)

Water 1 cup

Oil 1 tbsp

Method :
In a pan take 1 cup water add the mango pieces, salt and turmeric powder and boil it.
In a kadai heat a little oil. Add panchphutan, kari patta, hing and dried red chilli. Fry till the phutan starts crackling. Then add ginger-garlic paste and fry it for 1-2 mins. Add gud or sugar. When it starts boiling add the boiled mango pieces to it. Then add saunf powder and methi powder and serve it with rice and dal.

P.N: I added gud (jaggery) which gave the dish this colour.If you add sugar the colour would be different so don't worry when the colour come out to be different when you use sugar.

Contributed by: Mrs.Meena Panda, Kolkata , West Bengal, India.