CSN Giveaway for $60 and Mango Chutney/Chunda/Preserve

Most of my blogger friends must be aware of CSN giveaway going on in different blogs. CSN has wonderful collection of products, be it furniture or cookware you name it they have it. Just to get an idea what I'm talking about look at this collection of Dutch Oven, they have such a big collection. Last week I was also contacted by the wonderful CSN people regarding an option of doing review or giveaway. It was a moment of excitement for me and first thought which came to my mind was if my blog gets any kind of recognition, first credit goes to readers. Those who blog knows how much important it is for a blogger to have reader....it's like I'm talking & somebody is listening. So as a thanks to my readers I decided to do a giveaway.

So here's the deal CSN is going to giveaway gift certificate worth $60 to one of the readers. It's open to everybody, but in case of readers who live outside USA they gonna need to have US address as the point of destination, so may be you can use it for your friends or family if any one lives in US. Also there may be international shipping charges in case of  Canadian addresses. Now to participate in the giveaway I have decided following rules :
 1)  I don't want to force anybody to follow my blog but if you really like to read what I blog or if you really like my recipes you can surely become the follower....I'll be happy but becoming a follower is totally optional.

 2) Now comes the work part, browse through my recipes & leave a comment on this post telling me if you have to cook one dish from my blog what would that be. Again you don't have to cook but if you cook something I'll be happy to hear your review.

 3) If you are  a blogger spread the word about "CSN giveaway at Spicebuds"  in your blog & link back to this announcement page & leave a another comment for additional entry.

 4) Contest will be open till Aug/16/2010 and winner will be announced on Aug/17/2010.

 5) Please make sure you leave valid e-mail Id with your comment. All the Best.

 

Now what is this photo, well it's a food blog even if it's a giveaway post I feel it's incomplete without some recipe, so here goes simple mango chutney or as we call it chunda. Mango chunda is a sweet & sour kind of fruit preserve which is very common in Gujarat, but I've seen it equally popular in Delhi also, among my family & friends. Recipe over here is from my Mom, there was a time when she use to make it for whole extended family & friends(without any help of electric kitchen machines to do the grating part, that was the duty of Dad & kids) and it was relished by everyone. I also use to get my supply from her only but I guess now it's high time I should start experimenting with aachar(pickles) & chutneys, I already gave you an idea that pickle & chutney recipes are coming soon. Now for the recipe, it was a trial batch so I made it with 1 large mango only.

What U need :

• 1 large raw mango, washed, peeled, grated (about 1 cup)
• 5-6 tbsp. white sugar----check notes
• salt ( i used 1/2 tsp.)
• 1/2 tsp. black pepper
• 1/2 tsp. red chilli powder (lal mirch)
• 1 tsp. cumin powder (jeera powder)-preferably roasted
• 1/2 tsp. garam masala (optional)
• 2-3 cloves (laung)

What U do:

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  In a wide base steel pan/pot put grated mango & sprinkle sugar on it and stir. Let it sit overnight or at least 3-4 hours.
• Add rest of the ingredients & cook for around 15-20 minutes on slow to med. heat.
• Once all the water evaporates and preserve comes together turn the heat off.
• Let it cool completely before transferring it to glass jar/bottle.

Notes : here in USA the kind of raw mangoes we get are not only big in size but many a times not very sour they are more toward sweet side that's why I didn't had to use lot of sugar. It was reasonably sweet & sour for our taste & we could eat it spoonful without any thing along with it. So make sure you adjust the amount of sugar according to the sourness of mango.

 

Enjoy it with roti or as a spread on bread or like in my mom's house we all loved to finish our meal with a spoonful of this sweet & sour chunda. And don't forget to participate in $60 giveaway by CSN right here at spicebuds.