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Banane Skin Pickle 12 Bananas skin
1 Pod garlic 25 gms. Green ginger
25 gms. Green chillies 100, Dried dates (kharek) 100 gms. raisins 1 cup Vinegar
300 gms. Jaggery Salt to taste
Cut banana skin into longish strips. Finely cut garlic and green chillies cut green ginger into thin strips. Soak dates overnight in cold water next day remove the seed cut and dry in Sun for about an hour. Boil some water remove from fire and throw in banana skin keep for five minutes and drain off water and allow it to dry on a piece of cloth till the water dries. Mix all the prepared ingredients and add to it raisins vinegar and cut jaggery and salt. Allow to similar on slow fire till all the water burns away and only the jaggery syrup remains. Remove from fire and cool. Store in a cool jar.
-SARYU NANAVATI
Jlango Skin Curry 12 Ripe mangoes skin (golden colour) Table-spoon Ghee 4 Onions finely cut
2 Mangoes cut in slices Masala 1 Tablespoon Turmeric powder 1
Cumminseed Coriander seeds Poppy seed
(Grind to a fine Chillies powder
paste ! Cocoanut scrapped 6 Chillies 1 Small bunch coriander leaves
1 Piece Ginger and Salt Cut and wash the mango peel. Heat the ghee and fry the onions, when they change colour. Put in the grounded masala and fry. Then fry the cut mango peel. Fry well and add mango slices salt and 3 cups water. Cook on slow fire till gravy thickens and skin is tonder. Serve hot.
--SARYU NAXAVATI 33
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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