Andhra Mango Pickles: Are these best with rice?

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Read Fully story at: https://gn24.ae/7faad6601b83000  This special time of year is known for bringing family and friends together. Some say that in all of India, only Andhra Avakaya or Telugu pickles are good with rice.    #AndhraMangoPickles #Telugu #AndhraAvakayaPickle

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00:00As everybody knows, this is a pickle season for us, for Indians, especially South Indians.

00:07This is a big festival for us in a way that it becomes a big family affair, a community

00:13affair, and we always try to get together, like if there's going to be a pickle process

00:19in your home, all your sisters, brothers, everybody would come along and they would

00:24help you.

00:25So the process starts from buying the mangoes, selection of the mangoes from the market,

00:31and then getting them chopped into very good size, which is something like this.

00:36And then you bring them home, you clean, now even small children would be participating

00:41in this process where they clean the peas, they remove the extra film over the pieces,

00:47and then someone elder in the family puts all the spices together and then mixes, and

00:53then once it is mixed, while it takes three days for the pickle to get its taste, the

01:01anticipated moment on the day of pickle is that in this bowl in which we mix pickle,

01:07once it is removed and put in the big porcelain containers, hot rice is cooked, it's put into

01:14this, and we put a lot of ghee, and we mix it nicely, and everybody in the family is

01:21dying to have one morsel of it, and we are fighting over it.

01:24The combination of these spices creates anti-inflammatory effect.

01:30Now, this is why our elders would make pickles during the summer, mostly in the month of

01:36May, and what would happen is that after the rains, after the monsoons, when the winter

01:41comes, there isn't much of a crop, there's not a lot of variety of vegetables.

01:46So this is a good substitute.

01:49I think in particular, the Telugu people, people of Andhra and Telangana, make pickles

01:55that go beautifully well with rice.

01:58I can claim that in entire India, no one else's pickles go with rice.

02:03As far as I know, this tradition of making pickles, this culture and this legacy of making

02:09pickles has been there for more than a thousand years.

02:13It is a part of our culture, it's not just important for our culture, it is part of our

02:17culture.

02:18When a family comes together for it, they look forward to this month of May where we

02:22get together, and anyone who's willing to try, I would be happy to give them this taste.

02:27Come to our homes, and we will treat you.

02:29Come to any Telugu person's home, and we will treat you with this kind of beautiful mango

02:32pickles.

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