Ambula (food)

Pieces of ambula

Ambula (Oriya: ଆମ୍ବୁଲ) is an Oriya (eastern Indian) preparation of drying salted green mangoes under sun. Ambula is used to sour curries like "Kanji" and "Chatu rai". [1]

Preparation

Mango is mixed with salt and dried in the sunlight. After drying they are preserved in earthen pots (Atika).[2]

References

  1. ↑ Laxmi Parida (1 April 2003). Purba: Feasts from the East: Oriya Cuisine from Eastern India. iUniverse. pp. 101–. ISBN 978-0-595-26749-1.
  2. ↑ Jagannatha Dash (1 January 1999). Human ecology of foragers: a study of the Khariā (Savara), Ujiá (Savara), and Birhor in Similipāl hills. Commonwealth.