1/6/2023 0 Comments Mango lassiThe best way to tell a ripe mango is to feel it and smell it near the stem. Ripe mangoes can be green and “raw” (unripe) mangoes can be red. You might think a red mango is more ripe than a green one, but this can fool you. Surprisingly, when you want to tell if a mango is ripe you are best off ignoring the color. Like the Alphonso, the ataulfo is not fibrous. Ataulfo is the most similar to Alphonso that is grown in Mexico. It’s often more practical to get other varieties of mangoes. My personal favorite is the pairi mango, but I have never seen those in the U.S. When they were first introduced you could expect to pay about $40 for a dozen, now it’s closer to $15-$20. The Alphonsos have only been allowed to be imported for the last couple of years and they bear quite a premium price because of it. most of our mangoes are imported from Mexico, we also get some from the Phillipines and if you are willing to pay more, a lot of Indian stores have varieties from India. The Alphonso is special because it is very sweet and because unlike most other types of mangoes, it is not fibrous. But generally the “best” mango is widely considered to be the Alphonso mango, which we call “aphoos” in Gujarati. There are many varieties and people have strong opinions about which are their favorite. Indians are very choosy about their mangoes. My family used so much yogurt that my mom used to make a new batch of yogurt almost every night. But yogurt is used all over India, where they have found many uses for it: as a marinade, a condiment, a drink and so much more. Lassi is most common in the Punjab region in the of north of India. We often drank plain sweet lassi, a yogurt drink made by adding some sugar and water to yogurt and sometimes some cardamom for extra flavor. We made a lot of things with it, especially Mango Rus (you can read all about the farm in that post).īut mango lassi wasn’t a common treat in my family. I spent a number of childhood years at my family’s mango farm in India.
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