To my they epitomize summer in Brisbane. Yep I know it's not summer yet, but that beautiful tropical smell is hard to walk past.
I bought a couple and after having one with ice cream (best combo ever), I made up some orange and mango cordial.
Very simple standard recipe that you can use on any mix of fruits that I read on Rhonda's down to earth blog.
Juice your fruits and weigh. I lined a bowl with muslin cloth and scrapped all of the mango flesh into it, then squeezed all the juice through the cloth into the bowl. This left a lot of the flesh in the muslin cloth.
Make the same weight of sugar syrup (which is a mix of half sugar, half water heated on the stovetop until the sugar is dissolved)
Then just mix them together and pour into sterilized jars.
The cordial will stay fresh for at least 1 week like this, otherwise add a little citric acid (which you can easily find in the baking section of the supermarket) to keep the flavours fresher for longer.
I used the juice of 2 mangoes and 1 orange, and this gave me about 500ml of quite nectar-y tasting cordial, very delish!
But then I had the leftover mango flesh that I didn't want to just throw out. So I whipped up a mango cake to use it up! I didn't follow a recipe. Just added flour, sugar and milk until it was the right consistency and poured it into my ring tin then into the oven until it looked just about right. Easy, no fuss!
All that was remaining of those mangoes was the skin and seeds, into the compost and each and every part of those mangoes was used productively.
Do you have any great recipes for 'leftovers'?
I should not have read this before dinner! My tummy is rumbling!!! I hope your head cold is better xoxoxoxox
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