Mango Books

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Hello everyone, I am YourProduceGuy and today I'm going to show you how to cut a mango. Now, if you want to know how to tell when a mango is ripe just click right up here in the corner and you can watch my video on how to tell when mangos are ripe then be sure to come back here and see how to cut them up. now i've got a couple of different sizes of mangos, I got some at the grocery store, some at the club store. Look at the difference in size on those guys. My goodness. We're going to show you how to handle both of those. We're going to start with a little device here called a mango splitter. and we're going to work on these grocery store mangos right now. Now you grab your mango uh... you look at the axis where you see the seed goes through, it's got kind of a narrow side and a wide side. You just want to line your your cutter up with the seed in there, and this is so slick just like that look at that two halves of mango, a little close to the seed right there but there's some seed inside the stone, there's a little bit of fruit that could be salvaged from there, but these guys are ready to use. Now to get the flesh out of the skin here the easy way for use it in a recipe of some sort or maybe in kabobs or something like that you just score it here some big nice scores there and then just reverse that skin and look at that, look at those mangos all chopped up there ready to go you just kind of slice them out there just like that. Get them through. Oh, a little bit of skin hanging on there. clean that skin off and you're ready to go. Now, if you are making a recipe like my mango and black bean salsa recipe you'll want to cut these into or score them into smaller pieces like this one that i've done right here and look at that those little guys right there. Those are ready to go into my salsa. Now, I've got this larger mango here which we could probably use with our mango splitter. You can see the kind of the shape of the seed there that the splitter takes and would go down over the top of that but, these are so big, the seed might not fit through there, not quite sure. So I'm not going to take a chance on that and instead I'm going to do this one by hand which is what you would do if you don't have a device like that mango splitter. Now you just take your... you've got your seed running north to south here. You can see what i did there, just run the knife right along the edge of that stone in there there we go, look at that. Now you've got some... you've got a little bit of that fruit left here on the sides, so you just run the knife along the edge of the seed there on that side and back down this direction here and then you can give that your kids and they can bite off the rest of that little fruit that is just kind of hanging on there. Now, with these... the last time with the others we scored them up. You can also make them into nice spears. You can score them into long uh... pieces right there and scoop them out with a spoon much like you would with an avocado. But we're just going to go right through the skin, get these mango spears here and then you can use your knife and if they're really ripe... this one.. I don't know that this one is all the way ripe, but...oh... there we go you can just pull the fruit off that way, or uh... what i'd usually preferred to do is just run the knife under them between the skin and the flesh right there, and there you go. You've got a nice mango spear that you can use in desserts or in a fruit arrangement if you do those kind of things. So that's uh... that's the way to get that done. Now, i have seen some people suggest to use a vegetable peeler to peel the skin on the mango and work with the fruit that way. if you've got a ripe mango it's just going to be too messy to do that, so you need to cut it off in this way. If you've got a green mango and you're using it in maybe some Asian recipes, uh... green mango recipes then maybe you could use the vegetable peeler and get it off but, i think still the easiest method is to cut it with the skin on and work with it that way. Now, where we've got all these mangos here, we're going to put together a great recipe with these. A delicious, refreshing tropical drink that you can look for in our next video. Thanks so much for being with us. I am YourProduceGuy reminding you as always, fresh is best! We'll see you next time. Mmm...Ohhh but this one gets ramped up a little bit more, I'm going to tell you the secret here Now, i've put together simple syrup that we're going to use to flavor our ice cream or our sherbet with. I started out by zesting some uh... lime, about a lime and a half I used