Saturday, 23 March 2019

HOW TO MAKE DRY MANGO POWDER l AMCHUR POWDER l HOME MADE AMCHUR POWDER

Indian foods are flavoured with many spices which gives unique taste and flavour to the food.  The dry mango powder is sour in taste and added for tanginess in food.  You can use it instead of tamarind, lime because of the sour taste.

Usually, the dry mango powder is prepared with raw mangoes which should be white in colour inside the mango.  However, I brought the mango and the colour was yellow inside still I made it because it was very very sour.





 
Let us look at the recipe:

Time taken:  2 -3 days
Yield : 25 gms 


Ingredients: 

200 - 250 gms Raw mango

Method:

Step 1

Wash, pat dry and peel off the skin.  Peel with a peeler very thin slices and sun dry for two days.

Step 2

You will be able to break it with your hand as it will become brittle.  Put in mixer jar and make powder out of it.

Use as and when required for chaat items, curries etc.

It contains many nutrients including Vitamin A, C & E. It is antioxidants and used in preparing Ayurvedic medicines.  It is rich in iron.  It is believed that amchur also  helps in controlling BP as well as diabetes.

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