In this review, you will learn the most common, proven and easy way to peel and dice mangoes for salad. Step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Mango is a delicious exotic fruit with a juicy yellow pulp. Its taste is hard not to appreciate. This beauties are a welcome guest on any table. It is very beneficial to health. It is often used to prepare various dishes: sauces, salads, marinades … However, having brought a fragrant sunny fruit from the supermarket, the question arises: how to peel and cut a mango? There are many ways to do this, and we will get acquainted with one of them today. After studying the proposed instructions, you can easily cut the fruit into cubes or a diamond for use in salads.
Before preparing the mango, you need to choose the right one. When buying, you should smell it. Ripe fruit has a characteristic odor, especially around the tail. If it's immature, it doesn't smell at all. The peel of a ripe mango is free from dents, depressions and defects, shiny and smooth. It can be red, yellow-orange, yellow-green and even purple. Press on the fruit - it should be neither too soft nor too elastic. It usually weighs about 300 g. But there are copies of 500 g or more. It is advisable to store the whole fruit at room temperature, cut in the refrigerator for no more than 2 days. It is worth knowing that not only the pulp is useful in mango, but also the peel, which contains many substances valuable for health. It is used to treat colds. However, it has a specific taste and is difficult to chew, so it is not accepted to eat it.
See also how to make a mango smoothie.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 198 kcal.
- Servings - Any Amount
- Cooking time - 10 minutes
Ingredients:
Mango - any quantity
Step-by-step instructions on how to peel and dice mangoes for salad, recipe with photo:
1. Before peeling the mango, check if the fruit is ripe. Squeeze the fruit lightly with your palms and check for firmness. Then wash the fruit and dry it with a paper towel. Since there is a large pit in the middle, hold the fruit upright and use a sharp knife to cut a piece on both sides of the pit.
2. Place the mango pieces on a flat surface, pulp side up. Using a small knife, cut the flesh into cubes of the size you need with a wire rack. Do this carefully so as not to cut through the skin.
3. Turn the fruit over until the cubes come apart and use a knife to cut all the flesh from the skin.
5. You should have a thin skin without pulp.
6. From a middle piece with a bone, first cut off the rind with a small sharp knife.
7. Then cut the pulp from the bone by walking around it, cutting off as much of the pulp as possible. Cut the cut part into pieces of the same size as the whole pulp is cut. Put the prepared fruit in a plate and add all the juice that leaked from the mango during processing. The exotic fruit is ready and you can enjoy its unique taste or use it to prepare different dishes.
See also a video recipe on how to cut a mango correctly and beautifully.
