Mango Pudding Pots
Song suggestions:
That Don’t Impress Me Much - Shania Twain
A Message To You Rudy - Grant Phabao, The Lone Ranger & Carlton Livingston
Ingredients:
1 large mango
1 can coconut milk
1 tbsp vanilla extract (or 1 tbsp icing sugar)
Recipe:
Place your coconut milk in the fridge overnight. This separates the cream and the water, and we will be using the cream. The cream will rise to the top and sit on the water.
When you're ready to make the pudding, peel and roughly chop the mango. Save 1 to 2 tbsp of pieces for decorating at the end.
Blend the mango into a purée.
Carefully spoon out the coconut cream into a mixing bowl. Save the water to add to curries or make a smoothie.
Whisk until fluffy (about 4/5 minutes).
Add the vanilla extract and bit by bit, whisk in the mango purée until well mixed.
Spoon into individual pots and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
Roughly blitz your favourite biscuit to go on top, some fresh mango pieces and mint leaves.
A Bite Out of Life
My grandparents live in rural Portugal and their house has an amazing back yard. Nothing really too big, but very well used and packed to the brim with their own produce. 1 orange tree, 1 tangerine tree, 1 lemon tree, grape vines, copious amounts of lettuce, chard, fresh herbs, any keen foodie’s dream land. As my grandparents have grown older, combined with me having been at University with relatively empty Januarys (conveniently peak orange season), I’ve travelled every January to Portugal to spend time with them and help out a bit. The gardening was always my favourite - picking all the oranges and lemons, organising them into baskets and fridges, counting them all and then being able to cook with and eat everything they’ve grown over the course of the year. The juice from their oranges and lemons is literally liquid gold. Don’t hate: I drink glasses of fresh lemon juice just like I drink glasses of their orange juice. I’m not weird, I promise. Their lemons are just…so tasty!! Also, Tropicana if you’re reading this…hit me up. I’m ready to rep orange juice all year round.
enjoy food, enjoy life.
