Recipe: How to make Chhundo

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Summer is here and so are mangoes.

Rediff reader Coomi Selod shares a quick recipe for chhundo, a traditional sweet mango preserve, from her mother's book of recipes.

Ingredients

• 3 1/2 kg raw green rajapuri or malgoba mangoes (hard ones)
• 2 1/2 kg sugar
• 250 gm sea salt
• 30 gm jeera powder
• 20 gm red chilli powder
• 1 tsp turmeric powder

Method

• Wash and dry the mangoes.
• Peel the skin off, grate or shred the mangoes thickly, discard the seed.
• Mix in all the spices salt and sugar. Place in a large deep thali or tray.
• Cover with a muslin cloth and place in the sun to cook for 4-5 days.
• Stir the mixture 2-3 times every day with a dry, clean wooden spoon.
• Bring it in overnight and place in sun next day.
• After five days it should be ready.
• Test by taking a pinch of it. It has to be sticky and of single thread consistency.

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