Saturday, July 07, 2012

Mango Rasayana/ Mango with sweetened coconut milk

Taste Mangoes with sweetened coconut milk once and you surely will fall in love with the dish. This is a heavy accompaniment so be ready for a drowsy after effect :-)


You will need

Ripe mango
Coconut
Cardamom pods
Black or white sesame seeds(unpolished) -1teaspoon
Jaggary.

 Follow the recipe for sweetened coconut milk or Kaai haalu from my earlier post.






Wash and peel ripe mango.chop fruit vertically and then horizontally.





Now carefully slice vertically to get tiny bits of mango.





To sweetened coconut milk, add finely chopped ripe mango. Adjust mango to your liking( add more mango for a thicker consistency, add less if you want it watery/runny).
Season with dry roasted sesame seeds.
Goes well with semige/vermicelli, chapatti, dosa, kadubu/idli.



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Note: 

You may substitute mango with ripe banana.
Some substitute coconut milk with milk, but if mango is sour then it curdles milk.
Mango and Jack fruit are two fruits known to cause indigestion if eaten in excess. Their antidotes are respectively coconut and ginger. So I prefer to mix mango with sweetened coconut milk.
It is also said that mangoes are to be eaten after a meal and jack fruit before a meal. 
Sesame seeds are known to improve breast milk, so with sweetened coconut and mangoes helps lactation, but to be avoided during the first three months after delivery.

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