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Amba
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Amba

Quick amba: mango cooked with garlic, turmeric, spices and vinegar, blended into a tangy, spicy spread. (Traditional amba is green mango fermented in salt and spices for a few days.)

⏱ 26 min

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Heat the oil in a small pot and fry the garlic 2 minutes.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveSmall saucepan
  2. 2
    Add the turmeric and fry half a minute.
    ⚙ Adding to the hot fat and fryingStove
    💡The spices go into the hot oil for only half a minute: burnt turmeric turns bitter.
    💡Add by cooking time: what needs long (onion, carrot, meat) goes in first, and what burns fast (garlic, dry spices) goes in last, only until fragrant.
  3. 3
    Add the mango and stir, then add the vinegar, salt and black pepper.
  4. 4
    Turn down the heat and simmer 20–25 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the mango softens and thickens.
    ⚙ SimmeringStove
    💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.
  5. 5
    Blend into a smooth spread, cool and store in a jar in the fridge up to two weeks.
    BlenderorFood processor
163calories
2 gprotein
22 gcarbs
8 gfat
● protein 4%● carbs 54%● fat 42%

Per serving (170 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (3) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Small saucepan · Also works: Pot (None) · Frying pan (A deep pan for sauces)
  • Blender or Food processor · one of them

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⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Peeling and cutting the mango (into rough pieces) · Mango salted and squeezed before cooking (minutes) (30) · garlic · Ginger · Cumin · Hot paprika · Sweet paprika · Paprika · Lemon juice · Mustard · Frying the mango in the spices (minutes) (5) · Sugar · Water
  • Storage time in the fridge: up to two weeks

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