How do you tell if a mango is ripe and how do you peel one?!
How do you tell if a mango is ripe and how do you peel one?
Are you looking for the green or the reddish color?
Answers:
A ripe mango will always gives off a very nice sweet smell and a little soft when pressed. If it is ripe, you just need to cut slightly across the mango to peel away the skin and eat the flesh.
It will usually be red with a little bit of orange/yellow. Though if it's hard, it's not yet ripe. It also has to be soft.
If it's soft and reddish/yellowish with light-green, it's ripe. You can peel it with a potato-peeler.
Look for the reddish-orange color. A bit of light green is okay, though. You can peel with the potato peelers, or witha paring knife, like an apple.
Well you can tell when they are just ripe by how much they give in when you lightly press/squezz them...the more it gives the sweeter it will be.
Unless you let it ripen too much then it's kinda very smushy.
But in that case you can make a good sweet mago juice or shake and not have to add as much sugar to it.
Mango shakes are awesome
(Mango doesn't have to be ripe all the way to make a shake)
*My way of making them are to Combine ALL in Blender:*
1 Mango (Peeled / No Seed)
~1cup Ice (Depends on u :You can start off with 1/2cp)
1cup Milk
~4 Tbsp Condenced Milk
2 Tspn Sugar
Pinch of salt
(Sweetness depends on youo if you think it might be too sweet take away 1tspn of sugar & 1tbspn condenced milk)