- If using fresh tamarind, soak a small lemon sized tamarind in warm water for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, squeeze out the pulp and set the tamarind water aside. Wash raw mangoes and green chilies under running water. Then peel the mangoes and chop them along with the green chilies into small pieces.
- Take a large bowl add the dry ingredients which includes chopped raw mangoes, chilies, coconut pieces, neem flowers and then mix it together.
- Now, add tamarind juice, salt, jaggery into the dry mixture. Mix them all together and gradually add water according to your liking.
- It is amazing how our ancestors came up with dishes like this; perfect to suit every season and tradition as well as totally with local ingredients and nutritious to boot!
This special salad combines all the flavours our palate craves for - sweet, sour, salty, bitter, astringent and piquant. It is a symbolic reminder that one must be ready to experience every flavour of life throughout the year ahead.I came to know about this dish recently and fell in love with the whole tangy, sour, chilly, sweet and bitter taste in every spoon.
Khatta Meetha Salad
By Kamalavarshini Prabakar
Jan, 20th
613
Servings
4 persons
Cook Time
10 minutes
Ingredients
7
- 9
Ingredients
- Tamarind juice - 1 cup
- Jaggery - 1/2 cup
- Raw mango(finely chopped) - 1/2 cup
- Neem flowers - 1 tablespoon
- Coconut pieces - 1/4 cup
- Green chilli(finely chopped) - 2
- Salt - a pinch
- Water as required
- Optional - 1 Banana (finely chopped)
Instructions
Notes/Tips
This can also be offered as naivedyam while offering prayers to God. Try using fresh neem flowers to have a wholesome nutritious soupy salad!! Enjoy
