Saunth: Sweet Chutney with Green Mango and Dates
Sweet Chutney, also known as Saunth or Meethi Chutney,is a delicious sweet-sour Indian chutney. This recipe of meethi chutney is a variant of populartamarind sweet chutney and is made using green mangoes, dates, jaggery, andspices.
Servings: 35 2 Tbsp
Calories: 40kcal
Ingredients
Produce:
Spices:
- 1/4 cup Jaggery Gud
- 1 tsp Salt adjust as per taste
- 1 tbsp Roasted Cumin Powder Bhuna Jeera powder
- 1 tbsp Roasted Cumin Seeds Bhuna Jeera Sabut
- 1 tsp Black Rock Salt Kala Namak (powdered)
- 1 tsp Red Chili Powder Cayenne pepper - Lal Mirch Powder
- 1 tsp Garam Masala
- 2 Cinnamon stick Dalchini: 2, 1-inch sticks
- 2 Star Anise Chakraphool: 2 pieces
Pantry:
- 20 g Melon Seeds Tarbooj ke beej: 0.7 oz/ 2 Tablespoon
- 20 g Calumpang Nut Chironji/Charoli: 0.7 oz/ 2 Tablespoon
Instructions
Method:
- Wash, peel and chop green mango and add to Instant Pot’s inner pot.
- Then deseed the dates, and add to green mango (to deseed the dated slit the date vertically with a knife, split the date from the slit and remove the seed).
- Add 2 cup of water to mango and dates, close the lid of the Instant Pot and pressure cook on high level for 5 minutes, NPR.
- When pressure is released and the pressure pin pops down, remove the lid and switch to sauté mode at normal heat level.
- Now blend the boiled green mango and dates using immersion blender.
- After blending add the spices, salt, roasted cumin powder, black rock salt, red chili powder and garam masala.
- Also add julienned ginger, roasted whole cumin seeds, melon seeds. chironji nuts, cinnamon sticks and star anise.
- Stir everything and let the chutney simmer on sauté mode for 5 minutes.
- Do a taste test and accordingly add sweetner, in this recipe I have used jaggery as sweetner.
- Also add water to adjust the consistency of chutney. Once done consistency of chutney should be thick enough to coat the back of spatula or spoon.
- After 15 minutes of simmering, turn off the Instant Pot and allow the Meethi Chutney to cool down completely. Upon cooling the chutney will further thicken down.
- Transfer this Meethi chutney to clean and dry glass jars and store in refrigerator.
- Before serving top it with some fresh fruits, like banana, grapes and pomegranates.
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Notes
Notes: How to make roasted cumin powder at home?
Making roasted cumin powder at is very easy, just roast handful of cumin seeds on low heat in a pan, keep stiring for even browning and brown until you start getting nice aroma and dark brown color. Switch of the heat and let them cool down a bit, and then grind them into powder using a spice grinder or dry jar of nutribullet. Store in a clean and dry jar for later use.Nutrition
Calories: 40kcal | Carbohydrates: 8g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 134mg | Potassium: 74mg | Fiber: 23g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 167IU | Vitamin C: 5mg | Calcium: 11mg | Iron: 1mg