Amba spice is a tangy golden seasoning built on pickled green mango. The flavour is sharply sour first, in the way unripe mango is, then turns warm and slightly sweet, with turmeric colour and a fenugreek bitterness at the back that is unmistakably Iraqi.
Amba is a condiment as much as a spice, and it can be used dry, finely chopped into
