Cooking with mango

Katie

Might as well start a thread for mango foody goodness.
I'll start with a Mango Lassi:
Ingredients
1 cup plain yogurt (use Greek yogurt for thicker drink)
1/2 cup milk
1 cup chopped mango (peeled and stone removed)
4 teaspoons sugar, to taste
A dash of ground cardamom (optional)

Method
Put mango, yogurt, milk, sugar and cardamom into a blender and blend thoroughly, then pour into individual glasses, and serve. Can sprinkle with a little cardamom.

Minion Queen

An awesome variation on this is to add
1/2 cup Papaya
Orange juice instead of milk
Vanilla Yogurt instead of plain

This makes a great breakfast replacement instead of a spicy cool down that @katie's gives ya

Katie

Wouldn't have thought to use OJ in it. Interesting.

Minion Queen

Ends up being somewhat like and Orange Julius

Katie

@Minion-Queen Oh yum! Haven't had one of those in years - I bet you could skip the sugar, too.

Dashrender

My sun conjure would love this!

Dominica

I bet both of those would be great sweetened with honey, but then again, I LOVE honey in just about anything! I don't like fresh papaya, not sure why. I bought a fresh one for Oreo once, and it made me gaggy as I was cutting it up, and every time I took some out of the freezer to put in his food, it made me gag again.

Dominica

@Dashrender What a gorgeous bird!

thanksajdotcom

I like this concept...:D

scottalanmiller

That is a cool bird.

Minion Queen

@dominica Papaya is not great on it's own but dried or in smoothie it adds a bit of flavor and body.

scottalanmiller

I loved dried papaya. And it is good for the digestive system.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

I loved dried papaya. And it is good for the digestive system.

The bird in the picture, papaya's her favorite treat! My Molucaan Cockatoo could care less about it. LOL

thanksajdotcom

@Dashrender Have you ever seen this movie?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulie

If not, you'd love it. Older movie and one I haven't seen in years but I do very much like it.

Dashrender

@ajstringham , yep, I've seen it.. and enjoyed it.. I liked the animated movie Rio too.

Bud

I like @minion-queen 's variation! If it's good for you AND tastes like an Orange Julius, I'm going to have to try it!

Katie

@Dashrender said:

My sun conjure would love this!

Beautiful bird! I love parrots, but don't like cleaning up after them. My roommate in NY had a cockatiel named Kramer that used to poop all over the apartment.

thanksajdotcom

@Dashrender Never saw Rio. Heard it was good though.

thanksajdotcom

@Katie Was its first name Cosmo?

Dashrender

@Katie said:

@Dashrender said:

My sun conjure would love this!

Beautiful bird! I love parrots, but don't like cleaning up after them. My roommate in NY had a cockatiel named Kramer that used to poop all over the apartment.

You can train them pretty easily to go mainly on their cage. it's not fool proof, but 80% or more.