Mango puree: cooking recipes and benefits

Mango puree - a product containing a large number of nutrients that are easily absorbed by the body, with a rich and bright taste.Our article is devoted to the benefits of mango puree and recipes for preparing various dishes with this exotic fruit.

Translated from the Thai "mango" means "royal fruit." On the territory of southeast Asia, it is one of the most common. This evergreen tree grows up to forty meters high. For the cultivation of fruits in industrial 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. Mango tree is whimsical to the conditions of growth, 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 peach, pineapple, lemon, banana flavors, soft flesh with appetizing freshness.

Mango belongs to the delicacy products containing a large amount of vitamins, amino acids, antioxidants, organic acids, glucose, fiber and dietary fiber. The complex of its vitamins and microelements enhances immunity, improves the functioning of the intestines, normalizes microflora, and eliminates 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, prevents diseases of oncological nature. Fiber and fibers help cleanse the intestines of toxic substances.

With many positive properties of mango has some contraindications to the use.

• It is undesirable to give mango puree to children under the age of one year. Sensitive gastric mucosa may be sensitive to a fresh product. Heat treatment will soften the perception of an exotic fruit.
• Individual intolerance and allergic reaction of the body.

Before use, you need to choose a ripe fruit, when pressed on which the dent quickly recovers. The mango in the middle can be over-ripe, loose, and the alcoholic smell will produce fermentation processes. The ripe fruit smells like sweet-hues, its skin is smooth and shiny.

To clean the fruit use a sharp knife. Next, separating the pulp from the bone, cut it into pieces. Everything must be done carefully, as the fruit is very juicy.

There is a variant of cutting mango along the stone. Without breaking the skin, you need to make a few cross-shaped cuts on the pulp, turn the fruit inside out and cut the pieces with a knife. The overripe fruit is chosen with a spoon, previously dividing it into two parts.

This delicious fruit goes well with a variety of products, thus making it possible to diversify the daily diet. Mango puree is easy to prepare at home. It is used as an addition to dishes, sauces, cocktails, jelly, smoothies, and independently.

Puree is introduced into the children's diet from a certain age and after consulting a pediatrician. More gentle for children's digestion will be mango puree, which has undergone heat treatment. The product contains many vitamins, amino acids and trace elements to enhance the health of babies and normalize their digestion.

The excellent compatibility of mango with other products allows you to enjoy bright and healthy dishes and desserts.

• Ripe soft fruit makes an excellent mango puree. It is preferable to feed a small child with a slightly cooked food (to avoid bloating).To do this, peeling mango pulp, cut it into small pieces and grind in a blender to a mushy mass. Before mashed potatoes will languish, it is advisable to add two or three spoons of water. After a few minutes of heat treatment, after cooling, we shift the finished product in a container for feeding.

• Indian Milk Drink Recipe carries a complex of vitamins and a lot of pleasure. Mash in a grinder one peeled ripe mango, three tablespoons of sugar with one liter of low-fat cream, season with all the juice of one lemon. It is customary to drink this cocktail chilled, adding to it a few ice cubes. Caloric content of the drink allows its use even with a diet.

• The decoration of the daily diet will be yogurt-based smoothies with 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.

• To make frozen mango puree absolutely easy. In eastern countries, it is customary to call such a dessert sorbet. One mango mashed potatoes mix with half a glass of sugar, diluted in a glass of pure water. The mixture is poured into molds and freeze.

• Milk shake with ripe mango pulp will emphasize tropical notes of fruit. Mix in a shaker two glasses of mango puree with three tablespoons of sugar until smooth. After that, add two glasses of cold milk and one scoop of white ice cream. Before serving, drink can be decorated with mint leaves.

• Easy to cook tender creamy panna cotta. Bring eight hundred milliliters of cream to the boil with the seeds of one vanilla pod and sugar (to taste). Add ten grams of pre-soaked gelatin to chilled, strained cream. The resulting mass is poured into forms and refrigerated for three hours.

• Quick spicy sauce will make a piece of any cooked meat kind. Grind the flesh of one soft mango, add one tablespoon of honey and lemon juice to it, a pinch of cloves, paprika, pepper, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. This sauce will make the dish truly original.

See the following video for the recipe for making mango puree.