A: Make raw mango chutney (maanga chammanthi) with it on the same night and take sparkly pictures with unnaturally high ISO and a tripod.
Or atleast, that's what I did.
Chammanthi is a Malayali's comfort food. Although it can be roughly translated to chutney in English, its not watery like chutney tends to be. Pacha Manga Chammanthi is almost always served with kanji or Indian congee, to balance the blandness but I served it with fresh, hot dosas!
Pacha Manga Chammanthi
Serves 4
Ingredients:
½ of a raw mango or about ½ cup peeled and chopped raw mango
¾ cup grated coconut
3 green chillies
A small piece of ginger
1 shallot
2-3 curry leaves, optional
Salt to taste
How to Make Raw Mango Chutney:
1. Grind the green chillies, coconut and mango pieces well together.
2. Add the ginger, shallot, curry leaves if using, and salt and pulse for a few seconds until well blended. I added a few drops of water to bring it all together.
Serve raw mango chutney with kanji (rice gruel) or dosa or rice and curry.
Notes:
- Its very hard to give a rigid recipe for chammanthi. The proportion of ingredients is always dependant on persona tastes
- For this chammanthi, adjust the ratio of coconut to mango according to the sourness of the mango and how sour you like your chammanthi
- You can omit the ginger, shallot or both if you want to keep the flavours more plain and focussed on just the mango. I sometimes omit the shallot but love the heat from the ginger
- Add a very small piece of tamarind if your mango is not sour at all. Then again, that mango is not best suited to make a chammanthi anyway
Bong Mom
Mmmmmmm, taht would have been a lovely night 🙂
Mriganayani
Never had this before. But I can sure visit and we can sit together, chat and eat all of this!
Jaisy James
love chammanthi with rice wowwwww
Lena Rashmin Raj
wowwww...navil vallam vannu..i love this chammanthi..goes well with hot rice, pickle and pappad.. 🙂
Sreelekha Sumesh
Love this chammanthi with kerala rice.yummm.
Priya
Tongue tickling tangy mango chammanthi makes me drool..
Akila
i have never ever tasted this.... wanna try this soon.... bookmarked dear....
http://akilaskitchen.blogspot.com
Sanjeeta kk
Looks and sounds very tempting. Nice green tint for the spread.
sakshi
One of my all time favourite food. I can eat it with almost everything. Well your post is enough to make me go and make it all over again.
RAKS KITCHEN
This is something new to me!
Now waiting for your post on night photography tip!