MAMBAZHA PULISSERY

Mambazha Pulissery, hmmmmm, even hearing the name of mambazham, or ripe sweet mangoes will fill my mouth with water. In Kerala 'mambazha pulissery' is a delicacy of a 60% people. Keralas Novels and fictions in the early 80s wrote about mambazha pulissery, divine love, glass bangles, girls having long plaited hair covered with jasmine flowers etc etc ......Writers were able to make a world of fantasy around the readers. Great writers of Malayalam like M.T Vasudevan Nair, KamalaDas(Madhavikkutty), Mukundan, Kovilan............their words have a magical touch.

Now to our mambazham. Mango belongs to the genus Mangifera. Family Anacardiaceae. It is indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. It is very interesting to find the names of mango in other indian languages. In Hindi it is 'aam', in Tamil 'mangai' or 'mambalam' (for sweet mango), in sanskrit it is 'madhulaka', marathi it is 'amba', telugu it is mamidi kay, malayalam it is manga, and mambzham for sweet mango. In French it is Manguier, Mangue. Quite interesting is it? . Mambazha Pulissery is a very easy dish.

Ingredients:-

2-3 very sweet mangoes

red chilly powder- 3 teaspoon(it depends how hot your chilly powder)

turmeric powder- a pinch

salt- for taste

2 cup curd-not too sour, not too sweet, medium taste curd,

1 cup coconut paste (put the coconut in a mixer bowl and add some water and make it a thick paste)

1 table spoon coconut oil(or any other vegetable oil)

1 teaspoon mustard seeds

curry leaves

2-3 red chillies

1 teaspoon fenugreek ('Uluva'-in malayalam, 'methi' in hindi)

Preparation:-

Wash the mangoes, remove its skin, cut into pieces. Put a pan on fire, add pieces of mangoes, add half a cup of water, add salt, chilly powder, turmeric powder, close the pan with a lid. When mango pieces are almost looks like a paste form, add the coconut paste, curd and allow the whole mixture to boil, be careful don't allow too much boiling. Then on the other burner, put a pan, add oil, saute mustard seeds, curry leaves, chillies, uluva and mix these with the curry. Your Curry, yes your nostalgic mambazha pulissery is ready. If you add the seed of that mango( without removing the whole pulp ), you can simply chew that for a long time till your mother asked you to throw away that............ ha ha ha