Mangos taste good and are healthy, but unfortunately, the flesh is not that easy to separate from the pit. The following guide is intended to help you peel and cut up a mango.
Peeling a mango
You can only peel mangos if the fruit is not yet too ripe and therefore soft. Mangos should be peeled lengthwise with a potato peeler, vegetable peeler, or a sharp knife.
In principle, you can peel mangos just like potatoes, although the skin is not quite as thin, which makes peeling a little more difficult.
Pitting mangos
To get the large, oval pit of a mango out, you should cut the flesh with a sharp knife down to the pit and thus divide the mango. Then you can take the mango apart and remove the pit from one of the two halves. If the mango is not yet ripe, however, this unfortunately does not work and you should use the method described in the next section.
Disassembling and cutting up a mango
Cut the peeled mango lengthwise down to the pit and then cut across it. This creates cubes that can be detached from the pit. You should only choose this variant if the mango is not yet ripe.
If the flesh can be easily detached from the pit, you can also cut slices lengthwise from the mango and then serve them.
Scored mango halves – the mango hedgehog
To prepare a mango decoratively, you have to halve the mango and then pit it.
The flesh should then be scored crosswise so that a nice pattern is created.
After the flesh has been divided into small cubes or diamonds in this way, you can press on the skin from the outside and thus make the flesh protrude like the spines of a hedgehog. The "mango hedgehog" is ready!
I hope this description helps with cutting and pitting a mango, and I would be happy to receive comments on these mango tips and your experiences with stubborn mangos!
Letting mangos ripen
Mangos usually need a few days of storage until they reach a nice ripeness. However, you can speed up this process if you place an apple next to the unripe fruit. The ethylene contained in the apple – a gas – accelerates the ripening process of kiwis & Co. The rule of thumb also applies in the opposite case: fruits that should not spoil quickly must not be stored together with apples.
Read also:Â Fruit with monster decoration
Photos by Sabine, meinhaushalt.at
