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Kashmiri Pickle

A sweet and spicy mango pickle made with mango, ginger, raisins, dates, almonds, chillies, garlic, salt, sugar, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,781 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Kashmiri Pickle

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the mango into bits.

  2. Combine the mango, ginger, raisins, dates, almonds, chillies, garlic, and salt in a pot.

Cook

  1. Make a thick syrup with the sugar and add it to the pot.

  2. Gradually stir in the vinegar while boiling the mixture.

  3. Cook until all ingredients are soft.

Bottle and mature

  1. Bottle the mixture once it cools and expose it to the sun for about two weeks.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Raisin + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  2. Mango + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together280 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  3. Ginger + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Dates + almondtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together217 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Ginger + raisintop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,242 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Mango
Provides the main fruit body and tartness that the pickle is built around.
Sugar
Makes a thick syrup that sweetens the pickle and helps preserve it.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that sharpens the flavour and helps keep the pickle stable.
Dates
Add soft texture and natural sweetness that balances the sharp vinegar.
Raisins
Add chewy texture and concentrated sweetness throughout the mixture.

The step that matters

Gradually stir in the vinegar while boiling the mixture. Adding vinegar slowly to a boiling mixture keeps the acid evenly distributed and prevents the sugar syrup from separating or scorching, so the pickle cooks and sets smoothly.

Swap the dates

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mango, ginger, raisin, almond, garlic, sugar, vinegar):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mango, ginger, raisin, almond, garlic, sugar, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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