Mango is a sweet and juicy fruit that grows in the tropics. Its characteristic features: thin skin, delicate and fragrant flesh. The color of mangoes can be different, ranging from green-yellow to purple-red.
Some eat this fruit separately, while others cut it into slices and add it to salads. Some housewives prefer to serve it on the table in the form of salsa or chutney as a side dish for fish and meat dishes. In addition, mangoes make great cocktails, delicious mashed potatoes and cakes. However, to cook something from it is only half the story. First you need to have information on how to peel mangoes. It is in this matter that many housewives encounter certain difficulties. To clean mangoes at home, you must have the following items prepared:
- cutting board,
- deep bowl
- knives for slicing bread and fruit.
Before telling you how to peel a mango, consider its structure. So, in the very center there is a flat bone resembling a huge sunflower seed. It is tight enough to the pulp. Therefore, it will take some effort to take it out. Of course, you can cut the fruit in half and eliminate the seed. But this is not a good idea, because you just get dirty from head to toe with juice, which is very sticky. How to peel mangoes to prevent such a development of events? You can carefully remove the peel from it and eat it like an exotic popsicle. Do not tolerate platitudes and simple options? Then prepare a delicious and mouth-watering dish with the addition of slices of mango.
There should be two knives on the table - bread (large) and fruit (small). Put the fruit on a cutting board. We carefully examine it to find a soft oblong fossa. We pick up a large knife and cut off two pieces of a semicircular shape on the left side. We do this very carefully. Try to make the incision as close to the bone as possible.
Now you need to take a small knife (for fruit). With the other hand we hold one of the “cheeks” of the fetus, which lies on the board with the pulp up. We make several thin lines parallel to each other. The distance between the strips is 1-1.5 cm. Try not to touch the peel. Next, rotate the mango 90 degrees and repeat the operation. With the second "cheek" we do the same.
As a result, you should get two halves of the fruit, the flesh of which is a square. However, it is still in the peel. Correct the situation as follows. We set a bowl in front of us, take one of the halves of the mango with both hands and press our fingers on the peel, turning it inside out. The flesh in the form of squares resembles a hedgehog. Carefully cut it into a bowl with a fruit knife. Do the same with the other half. You just have to cut the flesh around the bone, peel and cut into small squares. It does not take you much time.
Now you know what and how to peel mangoes. As you can see, this process does not involve anything complicated. We hope that the information announced above will be useful to you.