Amba (pickled mango sauce)

Jerusalem mix, or meurav yerushalmi, is a fried offal mix, sometimes with chopped chicken breast. This quick and easy dish made from budget offal has become a hallmark of Israeli fast food. The recipe was invented in the 1960s, not the most prosperous years for Israel, and even the name of the author is known: it was a certain Haim Firo, whose butcher shop near Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market is still in operation. Like any dish that has become popular, there is no canonical recipe for Jerusalem mix: in some places it is served directly on a hot frying pan, with pickles or ptitim paste added. But more often it is packed in pita envelopes to make it convenient to eat on the go.

This is how hummus is prepared in the Moscow hummusia "Abu Ghosh". For this dish you need yellow mango, its aroma and taste are more appropriate here: it is sweeter than other varieties. The mango needs to be cut into small cubes and mixed into the hummus. But that's not all: so that the chickpeas and tahini do not overpower its fresh taste, you will also need to pour amba sauce, which is made from mango, on top of the hummus. This will finally secure the union of fruit and hummus. This dish can be considered a dessert. And if you eat it with our thin unleavened wheat flatbreads , it is also a very satisfying dessert, almost like a pie

Recipe provided by the Mitzvah cafe at the Usachevsky market.