The summer is back and you know the benefits. Summer gives us the sweetest and luscious mangoes. There’s a limit to eat mangoes in a day since it contributes to heat in our body but these green mangoes does the opposite. These mangoes cool down your body in fact. This spicy green mango juice is quite popular in the North India. You’d love to get addicted to the spices and tanginess in this juice. There are various ways you can prepare this juice. Let’s check for easy way other than which you can experiment with many other spices.
Prep Time: Under 15 min
Cook Time: Under 15 min
Serves: 2 people
Ingredients
The Base:
Green mango – 1
Ice cubes – few
Cold water – 2 ½ cups
Seasoning:
Roasted cumin powder – 2tsp
Black salt – 2tsp
Ground black pepper (optional) – ¼ tsp
Sugar – 2tbsp or as per taste
Mint leaves (optional) - few
Method
1. There are 3 ways to go about preparing the mango.
Method 1: Boil a mango and when cooled peel it and mash well. Strain and set aside and then go to step -7.
Method 2: Peel the mango first and then pressure cook for 2-3 whistles (around 10 min on mid-heat). Let it cool down and then remove the pulp proceeding to step – 7.
Method 3: Roast the mango. To do this you can use oven or put it over a gas burner. Make sure all the sides of the mango roast properly and turns black. Then let it to cool down to the room temperature.
2. Now peel its skin properly and remove the pulp and put it in a processor. Puree it well into a smooth consistency.
3. Take few ice cubes in a serving jar and add the puree to it.
4. Add all the spices along with some sugar as required to the jar of juice. Now add water and stir well.
5. Garnish with little mint leaves and serve chilled.
Optional Seasoning :
1. You can try jiggery instead of sugar. It’s a natural sweetener and so is healthy as well adding more nutrition to your juice.
2. Add few teaspoons of mint chutney instead of mint leaves to taste. Else you can also go for dried mint leaves. A little is really enough. Make sure you are not adding more than enough.
3. How about mixing some lemon juice as well for some freshness?
4. Few more spices like hing, red chili powder can be added as well.
6. Dry roast carom seeds in a pan and when they are aromatic, make fine powder of them.
7. You can also use saffron threads, nutmeg powder and cardamom powder this recipe instead of the hing.