An ode to Avakaya: how raw mangoes turn into a rich pickle in a Telugu household
1 year, 6 months ago

An ode to Avakaya: how raw mangoes turn into a rich pickle in a Telugu household

The Hindu  

To call Avakaya a mere pickle is doing injustice. Well, it didn’t seem too much when my mother bragged, “Those days I used to make it with 35-40 mangoes.” In comparison, a mere 10 seemed doable. This triggered some doubts—”Are the mangoes hard enough?”, “Are the pieces too big?”, “Is the shell too small?” Finally, we returned with a stock that somehow seemed much larger than the 10 mangoes we started with. As my mother mixed the ingredients with her bare hand, we debated if we should use my late grandma’s pickle jar to store the pickle. My mother followed a process: She layered a heap of the mangoes, kept dunked in oil, then added a layer of dry ingredients, then poured more oil to wet the powder.

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