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Mambazha Pulissery

Mambazha Pulissery or ripe mango curry is a mango dish originally from Kerala. It is prepared with firm ripe mangoes, curd and fresh coconut. Mambazha Pulissery or ripe mango curry doesn’t take much time for preparation. Just half an hour and a blast of sweet, salty, spicy and sour flavored dish is ready!!

This mango curry is the first savoury dish I have ever cooked with coconut. I like coconut a lot, but only in sweets. In savoury dishes I am content till coconut chutney only.

A few days back my neighbour Subbalaksmi gave me this ripened mango curry dish to taste. I liked the taste and instantly asked for the recipe. But Subbalaksmi told that the recipe belongs to her mother in law and she always gets the ready dish from her. She doesn’t stay very far from our house but due to Corona I was scared to step out.

So, I decided to Google the recipe and my search ended with Foodviva.com. Recipe was quite simple and in half an hour Mambazha Pulissery was ready. I took the curry to Subbalaksmi’s house for tasting. Both husband and wife gave a big thumbs up and I guess from now onwards I will start liking and cooking some more savory coconut based dishes.

Some points to remember:

For this dish take firm ripe mangoes, so that while cooking you can have some mango chunks in the curry. If mangoes will be very soft, all chunks will turn into pulp.

Don’t use dry coconut. Fresh coconut gives wonderful authentic flavor to the dish.

Curd should be slightly sour and thick. We don’t want hung curd but it should not be thin as buttermilk.

This dish can be a part of your meals as a side dish or can be relished with plain hot steamed rice.

In the end while tempering, coconut will gives authentic flavour to the dish. But any other variety of oil also can be used.

There are a few more posts on mango dishes in the blog. You can take a look at them also:

Instant Mango Pickle

Kairie ki loungi (raw mango dish)

Kachhi keiri ka pana/panna (raw mango beverage)

No Churn Mango Ice Cream

Mini Mango Cheesecake (No-Bake)

Mango Shrikhand (curd based dessert)

Ripe Mangoes Gojju/Curry

Ingredients :

1+1/2 cups peeled and chopped firm ripe mangoes

1/2 tsp turmeric powder

1/2 tsp red chili powder

1/3 cup of water

1/3 cup fresh grated coconut

2 green chilies

1/2 tsp cumin seeds

2-3 tbsp water

Salt as per your taste

1+1/2 cups thick beaten curd

2 tbsp oil

1/2 tsp tiny mustard seeds

8-10 curry leaves

1/8 tsp asafetida

2 dry red chilis

Process :

Beat the curd and keep it ready.

Grate fresh coconut, add cumin seeds, green chilies, water and grind it into smooth paste.

Wash, peel and chop firm ripened mangoes.

Heat pan on sim heat and add mangoes, water, turmeric powder and red chili powder.

Mix everything together and cook for five minutes on sim flame. If mixture is turning too thick and sticking to the pan add 2-3 tbsp of water. Be careful, don’t let the mangoes become completely mushy.

After 5 minutes of cooking mangoes, add coconut paste and salt. Mix it well, keep stirring and let it cook for 2-3 minutes.

After 2- 3 minutes, add beaten curd and keep stirring for a minute otherwise curd will curdle. Switch off flame after a minute.

In a separate pan, heat oil and crackle tiny mustard seeds, asafetida, curry leaves, dry chilies and instantly pour this into curry.

Kerala style ripe mango dish Mambazha Pulissery(mango curry) withcoconut flavour is ready to be served!

July 7, 2020April 28, 2022

Deeksha Pathak108 Comments

Malai do pyaaza (onion with milk cream)

Onion cooked with milk cream – sounds a little odd, doesn’t it? But with this combination you will get such a beautiful restaurant-style dish that you will prefer to keep it as the star dish of your dinning table! Apoorva and I named this as ‘Malai do Pyaaza’.

Last year during my Delhi trip my youngest sister Neetu served us this dish. I loved this onion dish as it was not only delicious (fat is always tasty, isn’t it 😂) but the whole preparation took hardly any time and quite effortless.

Try this dish as you don’t have to worry about buying fancy ingredients during this lock-down period. Milk delivery is regular, so we can collect malai. Spices used here are our regularly used ones and are always there in kitchen.

I have a few more gravy based dishes in the blog. If you are interested you can check them also…. Lauki ke kofte ki sabzi (grated bottle gourd dumplings in curry)

Mangodi ki subzi

Dahi waale aaloo (Potatoes with buttermilk)

Gatte Ki Sabzi

Ingredients :

Small size onions 8-9
Oil – 2tbsp
Jeera (cumin) – 1/8 tsp
Rai (tiny mustard seeds) – 1/8 tsp
Hing (asafoetida) – a pinch
Dhania ( coriander) powder – 2 tsp
Haldi (Turmeric) powder – 1/4
Red chilli powder – 1/4
Salt as per your taste
Malai (milk cream) – 1/3 cup
Water – 1 cup

Points to remember :

Onions can be added without giving a cross cut.
If you do decide to make a cross cut, make sure that the cut is not deep, otherwise onions will not remain intact.
Malai is cream of milk which gets collected on top of the milk after boiling. Collect the 3-4 days malai from the milk (keep it in the fridge) and use it.
Can Amul milk cream be used instead of malai? Yes, you can but it doesn’t give exactly the same creamy texture and taste as we get by adding malai.
Keep malai ready by churning it before starting the process.
This dish is full of calories, so physical exercise is a must to burn those calories 😉.

Process :

Peel, wash and cut a cross (not deep) on onions.

Heat oil in cooker and crackle rai, hing and jeera.

Add churned malai and spices and let it cook for two minutes on medium heat. Keep on stirring.

Add onions by keeping the cross side on top and close the lid of the cooker along with weight. Turn off heat after just one whistle.

When the steam of the cooker cools down, open the lid of the cooker and Malai do Pyaaza is ready.

Delicately shift in serving bowl and enjoy the whistles from family members and guests!!

May 29, 2020May 30, 2020

Deeksha Pathak73 Comments

Dahi waale aaloo (Potatoes with buttermilk)

Dahi waale aaloo or chach vaale aaloo ki sabzi or boiled potatoes cooked with buttermilk is a traditional Rajasthani cuisine. Rain was scarce in Rajasthan till few years back. So getting vegetables was very difficult, specially during summer. Therefore, people invented a few dishes so that they don’t get affected due to lack of rain and could taste variety. One such dish Mangodi ki subzi is already in the blog. Dahi ke aaloo is another such interesting dish where curry is prepared with buttermilk and along with regular spices boiled potatoes are added.

Curd is such a simple ingredient but you can create veritable dishes with it. I love using curd in my savoury dishes for regular meals like raita, sabzi or Besan ki kadi. The best part about Dahi ke aaloo is that it doesn’t require onion, garlic or even tomatoes. So you can have it during your one-time fasting meals.

Ingredients :

5 medium sized boiled potatoes
Curd 300 gm
3 cups water

Oil 2 tbsp
Jeera (cumin) 1/4 tsp
Rai 1/4 tsp
Asafoetida powder 1/8 tsp

Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder 1 tbsp +1 tsp
Red chilli powder 1 tsp
Green chillies chopped 2
3 tbsp water
Salt as per your taste

Garam masala powder 1 tsp
Oil 1 tsp
Dry red chillies 2
Chopped green coriander leaves

Process

Wash, boil, peel and mash potatoes in medium chunks and keep them aside in a bowl.

In a separate bowl churn curd nicely and add three cups of water and churn it again for a homogeneous mix (this is how we prepare buttermilk (chach) in India).

Heat 2 tbsp oil and splutter rai, jeera and asafoetida (hing) in a wok. Add red chilli, coriander and turmeric powder and chopped green chillies followed by 3 tbsp water. On sim heat let the masala get cooked for 5 minutes. Stir in between to avoid burning.

Once masala is cooked take out 1 tbsp out of it and keep it separate to be used later.

Add buttermilk in the wok once oil can be seen on the sides of masala. Increase the heat to high and keep stirring this mixture with quick movements until it starts boiling. Fast speed stirring is very important as otherwise buttermilk will curdle (phat jayega).

When buttermilk starts boiling, add mashed potatoes along with the salt.

Now reduce the heat to sim and let it cook for half an hour. It can be cooked on medium heat for 15 minutes but I like curries or gravies to be cooked on sim heat. Slow cooking enhances the flavor of dish.

Switch off the gas after half an hour and add garam masala powder and chopped green coriander leaves. Dahi ke aaloo or potatoes cooked in buttermilk are ready!!

Remember we had kept a little quantity of masala separate. We will use it now. Heat 1 tsp oil and roast dry red chillies in it for half a minute and add masala. Just before serving pour this in dahi waale aaloo and impress your guests and family members!!

May 20, 2020

Deeksha Pathak49 Comments

Ripe Mangoes Gojju/Curry

What kind of dish is Ripe Mangoes Gojju/Curry? I believe all my South Indian friends know everything about this dish. I will tell you how I first got introduced to this summer fruit mango dish…

Around two years back my dear friend Padmaja and I had gone to attend a housewarming ceremony of our mutual friend Poornima’s house. Generally in South India menu on such occasions is kept traditional. Amongst the dishes there was this one dish which was prepared from semi-ripe mangoes Ripe Mangoes Gojju/Curry. It was such a delicious dish that I was amazed that something so good could be prepared with ripened mangoes other than Mangoshake (aamras).

Later I asked Poornima about the dish and she told that it is called Ripe Mangoes Gojju. In Kannada gojju means curry and is prepared with special small mangoes that are sweet and sour in taste. Noticing our interest Poornima generously packed Gojju for Padmaja and me.

Subsequently Padmaja and I decided to give it a try at home but I completely forgot about this.

Now mango season is back and Padmaja and I were talking when we suddenly recalled the house warming feast and the ripe mango gojju. We both decided that we were going to prepare the dish this summer. Padmaja belongs to the beautiful coastal city of Mangalore, so she prepared Ripe Mangoes Gojju/Curry in a complete traditional manner with curry leaves and more towards the salty side to be relished with rice.

I couldn’t find the same quality of mangoes which are required to prepare mango gojju, but I got small size mangoes and I went ahead with the preparation. As curry leaves are not much appreciated by Manish and Apoorva, I instead used fresh mint leaves and dry mint powder. Mine was a little towards the sweet version than the salty one. So it had sweet, sour, salty and chirpy taste. I kept it in the fridge and after 3 hours it was the best homemade summer beverage!! It was really refreshing and delicious. I was glad that now to beat the summer heat I have one more wonderful cooling recipe. Isn’t it nice to explore different food cultures around us!!!

Ingredients :

Small size firm mangoes (sweet and sour in taste), two crushed green chillies, fresh chopped mint leaves, oil, rai (tiny mustard seeds), curry leaves, sugar, white salt, black salt, dry roasted cumin seeds powder, dry mint powder and water to boil mangoes.

Process :

Wash mangoes nicely and boil them in water (half soaked) till they are tender.

Don’t throw away the boiled water. Peel mangoes and with the help of knife or flat spatula take out all the pulp from the peeled skin of mangoes. Mix this pulp in boiled water. Now discard the peeled skin and squeeze out some pulp from the seed of mangoes too (but not completely).

This pulp would be having a lot of fiber – so grind it in the mixer along with sugar. Sugar volume should be such that the natural sweet taste of mangoes is also retained.

Add rest of the ingredients. White and black salt are added to enhance the taste. Mint leaves, mint powder and dry cumin powder enhance the soothing fresh flavor. Crushed green chilies and tadka or seasoning in the end with oil and tiny rai or mustard seeds will give it a touch of Gojju.

Mix everything nicely, keep it in the fridge to cool down and later refresh yourself with this slightly tweaked version of traditional Ripe Mangoes Gojju/Curry. You can add some more water later if you want to have thin consistency.

May 14, 2020April 28, 2022

Deeksha Pathak69 Comments

Lauki ke kofte ki sabzi (grated bottle gourd dumplings in curry)

Louki, gheeya or bottle gourd… use any name but this vegetable hardly brings smile on anyone’s face. My mother used to prepare this in plain curry form with tomatoes and I always liked it. But other than my mother and me everyone else in the family used to eat it forcibly.

But there is one more way through which we can cook this vegetable and serve to our guests. It’s slightly time consuming but tastes wonderful and no one can deny once served on his\her plate!!!!

Process :

1.To prepare Kofta:
Besan (gram flour) just enough to bind koftas

Grated bottle gourd 1+1/2cup
Red chilli powder 1/4 tsp
Chopped green chillies 1 tsp
salt… as per taste
Asafoetida… a pinch
Coarsely grinded fennel seeds 1/2 tsp

2.Gravy/curry

For paste:

Onion… 1 medium size
Tomatoes…. 3 medium size
Green chillies…. 3 medium size
Ginger…. 1tiny piece
Garlic……. as per your taste (I didn’t add)

Spices :

Red chilli powder 1/4 tsp
Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder 1tbsp +1 tsp
Salt as per taste
Garam masala 1/2 tsp

Green coriander leaves for garnishing.

Process :

Peel and grate bottle gourd.

Squeeze out all the juice from the grated bottle gourd. Keep this juice safe because we will be using it for curry.

Mix red chilli powder, salt, hing(asafoetida) , besan (gram flour) and fennel seeds (sauf) in grated bottle gourd and prepare koftas(small balls.)

Heat oil in a pan and fry these koftas keeping the flame between sim and medium. Once done, keep them aside.

Now chop onion, tomato, garlic, ginger and green chillies.

Grind them in a paste and heat oil in a pan, crackle rai hing jeera and add grinded paste. Add rest of the spices.

Let this cook on medium heat until it leaves the oil from the sides.

Now add two cups of water including squeezed out bottle gourd juice and let it boil for 10-15 minutes on sim to medium heat. Add kofta in the gravy after 15 minutes.

Cook for 5 more minutes on sim heat and take out louki ke kofte ki sabzi in a serving pan and sprinkle green chopped coriander leaves. Serve with plain rice or roti.

September 23, 2018August 10, 2019

Deeksha Pathak2 Comments

Methi Palak ki sabzi

Green leafy vegetables are my weakness. I can have them in lunch and dinner both. And these nutritious leaves can be cooked in many different ways. We can cook them as normal vegetable, can add them to prepare green paratha, roti or poori, can add them in curd, prepare chutney or add them in salad.
In the morning my next door vegetable vendor sometimes gets really good green leafy vegetables . Yesterday he had clean bunches of methi, palak and pudina. I used mint leaves to prepare dry powder and spinach and fenugreek leaves to prepare sabzi.

Ingredients :
Spinach leaves 2 bunches
Fenugreek leaves 1 bunch
Potato 1
Tomato 2 medium
Green chillies 1
Rai 1/8 tsp
Hing a pinch
Jeera 1/4 tsp
Oil 2 tbsp
Coriander powder 3/4 tsp
Red chilli powder 1/4 tsp
Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
Salt as per your taste

Process :
Cut the roots and thick stems and wash spinach and methi leaves. Keep them on a strainer so that all water drains out.

Once water drains out, chop the leaves.

Heat oil in a pan and crackle rai, hing jeera. Peel, wash and cut potato into small pieces and add in the pan and let it cook for a minute.

Add spinach and fenugreek leaves and cover it. Keep the heat on sim. In five minutes the whole bunch of leaves will settle down. Now you will have an idea for how much quantity of spices and salt you need to add.
Add chopped greens chillies, coriander powder, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt according to taste.