Mango puree: cooking recipes and benefits
Mango puree is a product containing a large amount of nutrients that are easily absorbed by the body, with a juicy and bright taste. Our article is devoted to the benefits of mango puree and recipes for preparing various dishes with this exotic fruit.
exotic fruit
Translated from Thai, "mango" means "royal fruit". In Southeast Asia, it is one of the most common. It is an evergreen tree growing up to forty meters in height. To grow fruits in commercial quantities, breeders bred low-growing varieties (dwarf), convenient for harvesting.
Among themselves, they differ in the size of the fruit, the color of the foliage. The mango tree is whimsical to growing conditions, light and humidity levels. Red, yellow, orange, green fruits are egg-shaped, fibrous pulp, flattened large bone. Tropical delicacy, grown in natural conditions, has a unique combination of flavors of peach, pineapple, lemon, banana, soft flesh with appetizing freshness.
Beneficial features
Mango is a delicacy product containing a large amount of vitamins, amino acids, antioxidants, organic acids, glucose, fiber and dietary fiber. The complex of its vitamins and microelements helps to strengthen immunity, improve bowel function, normalize microflora, and eliminate bloating.
- The combination of vitamin B6 and glutamic acid improves memory, stimulates the work of brain cells, has a positive effect on the nervous system.
- Potassium contributes to the regulation of blood pressure, the normalization of acid-base balance, and prevents oncological diseases. Fiber and fibers help cleanse the intestines of toxic substances.
With many positive properties, mango has some contraindications for use.
- It is undesirable to give mango puree to children under the age of one year. The sensitive gastric mucosa may react sharply to a fresh product. Heat treatment will soften the perception of an exotic fruit.
- Individual intolerance and allergic reaction of the body.
How to cook?
Before use, you need to choose a ripe fruit, when pressed on which the dent is quickly restored. The mango in the middle can be overripe, loose, and the alcoholic smell will give away fermentation processes. Ripe fruit smells of soft sweet shades, its peel is even and shiny.
Use a sharp knife to peel the fruit. Next, separating the pulp from the bone, cut it into pieces. Everything must be done carefully, as the fruit is very juicy.
There is an option for cutting the mango along the bone. Without breaking the skin, you need to make several cross-shaped cuts on the pulp, turn the fruit inside out and cut the pieces with a knife. We select a strongly overripe fruit with a spoon, after dividing it into two parts.
This delicious fruit goes well with various foods, thereby making it possible to diversify your daily diet. Mango puree is easy to make at home. It is used as an addition to dishes, sauces, cocktails, jellies, smoothies, and on its own.
Puree is introduced into the children's diet from a certain age and after consultation with a pediatrician.Heat-treated mango puree will be more gentle for children's digestion. The product contains many vitamins, amino acids and trace elements to improve the health of babies and normalize their digestion.
Mango puree is indispensable in salad dressings with chicken and seafood, in mousses, Asian sauces. Yogurt, cottage cheese or ice cream seasoned with mango puree will acquire an original, exotic taste.
The excellent compatibility of mango with other products allows you to enjoy bright and healthy dishes and desserts.
- Ripe soft fruit makes excellent mango puree. It is preferable to feed a small child with a slightly boiled product (to avoid bloating). To do this, peel the mango pulp, cut it into small pieces and grind in a blender to a mushy mass. Before the puree languishes, it is advisable to add two or three tablespoons of water. After several minutes of heat treatment, having cooled, we transfer the finished product to a feeding dish.
- Indian milk drink recipe carries a complex of vitamins and a lot of pleasure. After mashing one peeled ripe mango in a chopper, three tablespoons of sugar with one liter of low-fat cream, season everything with the juice of one lemon. It is customary to drink such a cocktail chilled by adding a few ice cubes to it. The calorie content of the drink allows its use even with a diet.
- The decoration of the daily diet will be smoothies based on yogurt with the addition of mango puree and various fruits, fruits or berries. A bouquet of aromas can be combined with vanilla, and taste preferences can be adjusted by the amount of products used.
- Do frozen mango puree quite easy.In eastern countries, it is customary to call such a dessert sorbet. Mix one mango puree with half a glass of sugar diluted in a glass of clean water. Pour the mixture into molds and freeze.
- Milkshake with ripe mango pulp accentuate the tropical notes of the fruit. Mix two cups of mango puree with three tablespoons of sugar in a shaker until smooth. After that, add two glasses of cold milk and one scoop of white ice cream. Garnish with mint leaves before serving.
- Easy to cook tender creamy panna cotta. Eight hundred milliliters of cream bring to a boil with the seeds of one vanilla pod and sugar (to taste). Add ten grams of pre-soaked gelatin to chilled, strained cream. Pour the resulting mass into molds and refrigerate for three hours.
If you use agar-agar instead of gelatin, then the solidification time will decrease by a factor of three. At this time, we prepare mango puree, mixing until smooth the pulp of one peeled fruit with the zest of half a lemon, two tablespoons of sugar and one hundred milliliters of water. Put the desired amount of exotic puree on the frozen panna cotta.
- Quick spiced sauce will make a piece of any cooked meat peculiar. Grind the pulp of one soft mango, add to it one tablespoon of honey and lemon juice, a pinch of cloves, paprika, pepper, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. This sauce will make the dish truly original.
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