Raw Mango Pulp recipe that can be stored for an year

It's Summer. When thinking of summer, we remember holidays and Mangoes. We will have lot's of  raw and ripe mangoes around. Today, let's see how to store raw mango pulp for an year.

We can use this pulp in curries, dal recipes and in chutneys. We can store this pulp for 6 months in refrigerator or for 1 year in freezer.

In my In-Laws house, there was an mango tree with bunches of mangoes, proudly looking at us, so we grabbed some of them and made into pulp :-).

Time for preparing this recipe will vary depending on the quantity. But, it worth a try as we can use this for an year. It been 8 months since we prepared the pulp, so I stored the remaining pulp in the freezer.

Ingredients

Mangoes
Salt
Turmeric powder

Method

Clean the mangoes and remove the skin.
Cut into thin medium slices.
Take heavy bottomed vessel and cook mangoes by adding little salt and turmeric powder.
Mix meanwhile so that the bottom won't stick.
Mango pieces will turn soft and on further cooking, mango pieces will be mashed while mixing.
Cook until the pulp was thick. Pulp should not be thin and there should not be any water.
Let it cool and store in a glass bottle.
Refrigerate for 6 months or store in freezer for an year.

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Mango, the word itself is as sweet as the fruit. I love mangoes. If summer comes, first I think about mangoes.

Mangoes, will bring back our childhood memories: throwing stones at the mango trees for the cutie mangoes, climbing the tree and running with the mangoes.

Mangoes, will remember me the  summer: long summer afternoons, breezy summer evenings and cool summer nights.

Mangoes, will remember me the summer days spend with my cousins, having mangoes after every meal.

Mangoes, will remember me the tender mango leaves and the kuku birds.

Mangoes, will remember me the get together parties under the mango trees in the green rice fields.

Whenever I pass the green fields with mango trees I feel that, mango trees stood straight with there heads facing upwards with pride with lots of sweet and beautiful mangoes.

Whenever I smell the sweet ripen mango, I feel like I am out of the world.

Fresh, colorful mango salsa can be served with taco chips or with grilled  fish or chicken. It is very easy to prepare. Salsa means sauce in Spanish and there are many varieties in salsa like tomato salsa, corn salsa, mango salsa, pineapple mango salsa..........   

Ingredients

• Mangoes -  3
• Plum or Cherry Tomatoes - 10 
• Chopped Red Onion - 1 Tbsp
• Jalapeno - 1 tbsp, chopped or to taste
• Coriander leaves or Cilantro - 1 Tbsp, finely chopped
• Mint - 1 tsp or to taste, finely chopped
• Lemon juice - 1 tbsp

Preparation

• Cut mangoes into cubes.
• Chop the remaining ingredients. 
• Combine all the ingredients and serve with chips or have it as a salad.

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Very simple yet very tasty chutney. When you have no time and want to make chutney you can make this easy chutney with in no time. The only time required is to cut coconut, mango and coriander leaves, then simply grind all the ingredients and tasty chutney will be ready. My mom used to make this chutney during festivals like Ugadi, when fresh raw mangoes are available. 

Ingredients:

• Coconut pieces - 1 cup
• Raw Mango pieces - 1 cup or to taste (Adjust depend on the sourness of mango to your taste)
• Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup, chopped
• Green chilies - 4
• Garlic clove - 1 
• Jeera/Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Oil - 1/2 tsp

Preparation:

• Heat oil in a pan and fry cumin seeds and green chilies.
• Grind coconut pieces, mango pieces, coriander leaves, green chilies, garlic and cumin seeds and serve with idli, dosa, upma or rice.
• If you want to temper the chutney, heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan, add 1/2 tsp mustard seeds, 1 tsp urad dal, 1 tsp chana dal, curry leaves and fry till they turn brown and add to chutney .

Note:

We can grind all the ingredients raw, which also taste really good.

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Mango, the word itself is as sweet as the fruit. I love mangoes. If summer comes, first I think about mangoes.

Mangoes, will bring back our childhood memories: throwing stones at the mango trees for the cutie mangoes, climbing the tree and running with the mangoes.

Mangoes, will remember me the  summer: long summer afternoons, breezy summer evenings and cool summer nights.

Mangoes, will remember me the summer days spend with my cousins, having mangoes after every meal.

Mangoes, will remember me the tender mango leaves and the kuku birds.

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