Indian Mango Recipes For The World!

The mango is known as the 'king of fruit' throughout the world. The name 'mango' is derived from the Tamil word 'mangkay' or 'man-gay'. When the Portuguese traders settled in Western India they adopted the name as 'manga'.

Mangos originated in East India, Burma and the Andaman Islands bordering the Bay of Bengal. Around the 5th century B.C., Buddhist monks are believed to have introduced the mango to Malaysia and eastern Asia - legend has it that Buddha found tranquility and repose in a mango grove. Persian traders took the mango into the middle east and Africa, from there the Portuguese brought it to Brazil and the West Indies. Mango cultivars arrived in Florida in the 1830's and in California in the 1880's.

There are over 20 million metric tons of mangos grown throughout the tropical and sub-tropical world. The leading mango producer is India, with very little export as most are consumed within the country. Mexico and China compete for second place, followed by Pakistan and Indonesia. Thailand, Nigeria, Brazil, Philippines and Haiti follow in order.

Harvested in April and May, this "king of mangoes" has orange-yellow skin, smooth, fibreless flesh, and a distinctive, powerful aroma and flavour, with notes of almond, coconut, vanilla and citrus.

Finally the first legal shipment of Indian mangoes to the United States too, landed at New York's Kennedy International Airport on 27 April. I think its the right time to introduce some great mouth watering Indian mango recipes to the world!

Below you can find some delicious mago recipes. Enjoy!

Ingredients

3 1/2 cups sliced mangos

2 tbsp. tapioca

3/4 cup brown sugar

1/4 tsp. salt

1 tbsp. melted butter

dough for 2-crust pie

Directions

Combine all ingredients (except dough). Roll out 1/2 pie dough. Line a 9" pie pan and trim excess. Fill pie shell with fruit mixture. Roll out other half of dough and top pie. Press edges together and cut slits in center. Bake 55 minutes or until brown in 425' oven. You can add ice cream with this if you want to!

250 gm cooked rice

1 unripe mango

1 teaspoon fenugreek seeds powder

1 table spoon red chilli powder

1 table spoon coriander seeds powder

1 table spoon curry leaves

1 table spoon jaggery powder

1 table spoon mustard

1 table spoon broken black gram

5 table spoon grated coconut

5 table spoon oil

Salt to taste

Method:

Peel the outer skin of the mango, grate the mango and keep aside. Heat 5 table spoon oil in a pan, and then add mustard seeds. When the mustard starts spluttering add broken black gram, curry leaves. After few seconds add grated mango, red chilli powder, coriander seeds powder, jaggery and mix well. Remove the pan from the fire. Add cooked rice, fenugreek seeds powder, grated coconut, and salt according to taste and mix well uniformly. Transfer into serving bowl. Delicious mango rice is ready to taste.

Ingredients:

1 half ripe Mango

1 table spoon oil

1 table spoon mustard

1 table spoon red chilli powder

1 table spoon coriander seeds powder

1 table spoon jaggery powder

Few curry leaves

Salt to taste

Method:

Cut mango into medium size pieces and keep aside. Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard. When mustard splutters add curry leaves. Then after few seconds add mango pieces, chilli powder, coriander seeds powder, jaggery powder and salt according to taste. Mix all the ingredients well, and then add some water and cook for some time till the water is evaporated. Delicious mango pachadi is ready to taste.

Mango pieces- 3 cups

Milk- 2 1/2 cups

Sugar- 1 cup

Cardamom powder- ¼ tsp

Ghee- 1/2 cup

Procedure:

Cook the ripe mango pieces in a kadai on medium fire with the sugar and the milk. When the mixture is well blended and leaves the sides of the pan, add the ghee,cardamom powder and the ghee. Cook for a few seconds. Pour the mixture in a greased tray.

And finally an easy fast and simple dessert made from mango

Ingredient

3to 4 ripe sweet mangoes

Sugar according to taste

Few almonds

Half table spoon cardamom powder

Half cup fresh cream

Method

Remove the pulp from the mangoes and blend the pulp without adding water. Transfer the content to a bowl. Add fresh cream, sugar according to taste, cardamom powder. Cut the almond into fine pieces. Add the cut almond pieces and mix well. Pour the mixture into several cups and place it in the refrigerator. Serve chilled.