Mixed fruit chutney

Monday to Friday we are  just running ...wake up early, get ready, cook breakfast..pack for yourself and husband. If you are religious then do puja..ohh!!! no not end.. then traffic,  look at your watch 5 times when you can reach office..then? ohh why lift is not coming..its full!!!? wait for the next one. Quickly rush to your cubicle and dial-up, join the meeting..and "Sorry guys, I am late"..I am sure all my friends go through this fast-pulse life. After a hectic day when we come back ..we are not left with any energy. And Weekend..its time for cleaning, grocery shopping and cooking... almost 2 pm when you finish your house hold activities, you have to rush to take a bath and by that time your family member might be starving. You have to be real fast. And top of that I need to manage to take some photos for my blog ..so Sorry friends sometime it just not work out. Though I try my best but can't be a regular blogger..I am sure my friends understand that well ..Being a Bengali my husband has a natural trend to have a  good lunch (at least not cooked by maid/cook) and good means something new chicken recipe, rice, fish fry and end with typical Bengali chutney.  Every weekend after lunch with a smiling face, he would say..you know after a long time I had good food..hehehhe..

So today I thought to share this mixed fruit chutney or Bengali style sweet and sour chutney. This is nice to have after a good main course, you can prepare it and store it for 3-4 days.

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Ingredient:

1.    1.  ½ cup chopped  Dry Mango bar, ½ cup chopped dates without seed, 1 cup chopped tomato, small spoon raisins.1 spoon dry pineapple, if available else we can skip it.
2.      1 or 2 table spoon sugar (depend on sweetness you like), salt to taste
3.    Fenugreek seed (methi),cumin seed (jeera), mustard seed (rai/sorshe), onion seed (kalonji/kalo jeera), fennel seed -  mix all these seeds in equal quantity and take one small for tadka or foron and another table spoon dry roast it and grind it in mixture. This dry spice powder is very flavorful.
4.   Two table spoons oil, salt to taste, two whole red chillies.

Method:

1.      Heat the oil and add one small spoon of whole seeds (refer point#3) and whole red chillies
2.      Add all the ingredients in point#1 , put the lead and cook it in low flame
3.      After 5-8 minutes put salt and cook in low flame.  When starts releasing water and almost cooked then add sugar. If the mixture becomes too dry then you can add little water.
4.      When it turns out to a thick gravy and release nice fruity aroma you can switch off the gas and sprinkle little spice powder on it (roasted and grinded spice-> point #3). And close the lead. Serve it once it cools down.