Aam Chunda is a famous sweet and spicy Gujarati pickle/preserve/condiment made with green mangoes. It is quite popular across the North, and it is served as a side along with roti, paratha, and theplas.
Today I am going to share the instant version or the stove top version of the popular aam ka chunda, and it is a zero oil recipe. :-)
The traditional preparation of chunda is fascinating as well as time-consuming. The grated mango and the sugar mixture is sun dried until the sugar dissolves, and mangoes turn soft and tender. :-)
The process is more like sun drying the vadagams. But as I mentioned above, today I am going to share the instant version. I tried chunda at my friend’s place and loved the pickle. As always, I asked her for the recipe.
When she shared the recipe, I realized that it was more like mango thokku, but with sugar and cumin powder added along with red chili powder and methi powder. :-)
The traditional recipe calls for sugar, but I went with jaggery and also included methi/fenugreek powder as we love that flavor. I didn’t even add all the spices one by one, just added everything in one shot and then cooked. Within 25 minutes, the yummy pickle was ready. :-) Ain’t that great?
Here are few summer special mango pickle recipes from my archives,
Instant Aam Chunda
Ingredients:
- Grated Raw Mango – 2 cups
- Powdered Jaggery – 1 cup heaped
- Fenugreek Powder – ½ tsp
- Red Chili Powder – 1 tsp
- Salt – 1 tsp
- Turmeric Powder – ¼ tsp
- Cumin Powder – ½ tsp
Prep-Work:
- Peel the raw mango and grate them.
Steps:
- In a kadai or pan, add the grated mango and all the spices and jaggery.
- Combine well and cook this mix over a low flame.
- The mix well starts to come together and also it will ooze out a lot of water.
- Slowly the mixture starts bubbling. Keep stirring the mixture if not it might turn hard.
- Cook until ¾ of the water evaporates, and the pickle comes to a jam-like consistency like below. It took me about 15 minutes over a low flame. If you are cooking over a medium flame, you can cook for about 8 to 9 minutes.
- Let it cool and store in an airtight container.
Serve it with theplas or parathas. I served this with Brussel Sprouts Paratha and here it is.
Notes:
- Methi powder is completely optional.
- You can use sugar, instead of jaggery.
- I went with comparatively less sweet and spicier. But you can increase the sugar and jaggery or the spices as per your taste preference.
- Make sure you keep stirring the pickle mix if not it will get hard and also the pickle should be semi-solid like jam.
- I did not go with one string or 2 string consistency. Once ¾ of the water got evaporated, it cooked for couple more minutes and turned it off. But you can cook until one string consistency.
- It took me about 15 minutes to prepare the pickle over a low flame. If you are cooking over a medium flame, you can cook for about 8 to 9 minutes.
Instant Aam Chunda | Sweet and Spicy Raw Mango Pickle
Ingredients
- 2 cups Grated Raw Mango
- 1 cup Powdered Jaggery
- ½ tsp Fenugreek Powder
- 1 tsp Red Chili Powder
- 1 tsp Salt
- ¼ tsp Turmeric Powder
- ½ tsp Cumin Powder
Instructions
Prep-Work
- Peel the raw mango and grate them.
Steps
- In a kadai or pan, add the grated mango and all the spices and jaggery.
- Combine well and cook this mix over a low flame.
- The mix well starts to come together and also it will ooze out a lot of water.
- Slowly the mixture starts bubbling. Keep stirring the mixture if not it might turn hard.
- Cook until ¾ of the water evaporates, and the pickle comes to a jam-like consistency like below. It took me about 15 minutes over a low flame. If you are cooking over a medium flame, you can cook for about 8 to 9 minutes.
- Let it cool and store in an airtight container.
- Serve it with theplas or parathas.
Notes
- Methi powder is completely optional.
- You can use sugar, instead of jaggery.
- I went with comparatively less sweet and spicier. But you can increase the sugar and jaggery or the spices as per your taste preference.
- Make sure you keep stirring the pickle mix if not it will get hard and also the pickle should be semi-solid like jam.
- I did not go with one string or 2 string consistency. Once ¾ of the water got evaporated, it cooked for couple more minutes and turned it off. But you can cook until one string consistency.
- It took me about 15 minutes to prepare the pickle over a low flame. If you are cooking over a medium flame, you can cook for about 8 to 9 minutes.
Nutrition
I am not a nutritionist. The nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. It varies depending upon the product types or brands.
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Never tried sweet and spicy verison of mango thokku. For my sweet tooth this’s tempting
:-) :-) Thanks