Coorg Style Kaad Manga Curry Recipe -Sweet & Spicy Mango Curry
Coorg Style Kaad Manga Curry Recipe which is a Sweet & Spicy curry made with tiny wild mangoes available locally in and around Coorg & Madikeri. Though it is a very very simple dish with just a few ingredients, the mango curry tastes absolutely delicious and has both the flavours of sweetness and tanginess flared with just a bit of spice.
Ingredients
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4 Mango (Ripe)
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small variety
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5 Green Chillies
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crushed (adjust to taste)
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1/4 cup Jaggery
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Salt
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to taste
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Ingredients To Temper
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1 tablespoon Coconut Oil
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1 teaspoon Mustard seeds (Rai/ Kadugu)
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1 Dry Red Chilli
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broken
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1 pinch Asafoetida (hing)
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(a generous pinch)
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1 sprig Curry leaves
Instructions
Step 1
To begin making Coorg Style Kaad Manga Curry Recipe, first wash the ripe mangoes
Step 2
Using a knife to remove their tip and lightly make 2-3 vertical cuts on each mango to help cook better
Step 3
Take a sauce pan, cook the mangoes with sufficient water, until they are soft and cooked thoroughly on a medium high heat
Step 4
When the color of the mango peel appears soft, you know they are cooked
Step 5
It might take 10 minutes depending on the heat
Step 6
Switch off once done and drain water into a bowl (reserve for later) and keep the whole mangoes in the pan and allow the mangoes to cool till handleable
Step 7
You can also keep the saucepan in a plate filled with cold water to fasten this process
Step 8
Once the mangoes cool, peel them
Step 9
You will be able to peel the mangoes easily using your fingers
Step 10
Put the mango peels into the bowl with the reserved water and extract any more remaining pulp by squeezing with hand
Step 11
Discard peel once done and reserve the water as you do
Step 12
Now squeeze cooked mangoes with hands to make the curry pulpy, using a masher is difficult with fibrous pulp on the seed of mango
Step 13
Do not discard the stone within, since the fibrous pulp attached to the stone is slurpy to try, while having the curry and you will love this experience for sure
Step 14
Keep saucepan back on a medium heat, add crushed green chilli, salt and jaggery to the pan with mango pulp and seed/stone and mix well
Step 15
Adjust taste and consistency of the Kaad Manga Curry Recipe by adding water if required
Step 16
Let it simmer for a few minutes and switch off heat
Step 17
In a tadka pan, heat a little coconut oil and splutter mustard seeds
Step 18
Once the mustard seeds splutter, add hing, broken red chilli and curry leaves
Step 19
Turn off the heat after the curry leaves crackle
Step 20
Pour the tadka on Kaad Manga Curry Recipe and give it a quick stir
Step 21
Close the lid of the pan and allow the Kaad Manga Curry to sit for about 10 minutes before serving
Step 22
Serve this lip smacking good Coorg Style Kaad Manga Curry along with steamed rice or Mangalorean Neer Dosa Recipe or Coorg Style Kadumbuttu/Kadambuttu Recipe and Sabudana Sandige Recipe