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Hog Plum Gojju is a sweet and sour dish prepared with hog plums, jaggery and yogurt. This Mangalore dish is best when served with hot rice and ghee.
Hog Plum is a fibrous fruit also called as Wild Mango, Ambate, Amra, Ameda, etc., This is a seasonal fruit and can be preserved in salt water for almost year.
Ingredients:
Hog Plums – 8
Green Chillies – 4, slit
Curry Leaves – 6
Jaggery – 1/2 cup(vary according to taste)
Curd – 1/4 cup
Salt to taste
For Seasoning:
Mustard Seeds – 1/2 tsp
Cumin Seeds – 1/4 tsp
Dry Red Chillies – 3, cut into pieces
Asafoetida – a generous pinch
Ghee – 1 tsp
Method:
- Cook hog plums in 1 cup water.
- Add green chillies, salt, jaggery and continue cooking until the skin of the plums become soft .
- Remove off heat and let it cool.
- Mash the plums slightly along with their seeds.(If you are using tender plums, they will not have any seed inside).
- Heat ghee in a pan, add mustard seeds,cumin seeds, dry red chillies, curry leaves.
- When mustard seeds start to splutter, add asafoetida.
- Add this to prepared gojju.
- Beat curd and add it to the gojju.
- Sweet and sour gojju is ready to be served with rice.