Avakkai Pickle Recipe | Cut Raw Mango Pickle Recipe | Hot Mango Pickle Recipe

Cut Mango Pickle / Avakkai Pickle is one of the popular Pickle Variety in South India. Mango Pickle are always so delicious and yummy, especially most of us like avakkai pickle. Most of us think that making avakkai pickle is complex, but, this is one of the easiest pickle. In India, during mango season, we can ask the mango sellers to chop the mangoes for avakkai pickle. The main trick is that the mangoes need to be cut with the seed. Generally, we fine chop the mangoes without the seed for mango pickle, but for this avakkai pickle, we need to chop the mangoes to bigger cubes along with the seed. Chopping part is the little complex part when you stay abroad where you can’t find anyone to chop for you. But in India, the sellers will surely chop and give it to us which would make our procedure simple. For any pickle, mustard, hing and fenugreek seeds play an important role. In Avakkai Pickle, the mustard plays the main part. We need to add more mustard seeds powder compared to other pickle.

Other important ingredients for any pickle is Oil. We should be little generous in oil to have a long shelf life. The spice and oil plays an important role in shelf life of the pickle. My MIL always advice me that, we should be generous in adding sweetner like sugar or jaggery while making sweets / desserts and also we should not be scared to add generous amount spice and oil to pickle. A bowl of curd rice with one piece of avakkai pickle is a heavenly dish, especially during hot summers.  Lets see how to make this Avakkai Pickle