Disclosure: This is a sponsored post between National Mango Board and Motherhood. However the opinions and recipe are 100% mine.
Hands down Mango is my most desired fruit. I could eat it all day if you let me. I didn’t grow up eating the tropical fruit, in fact I rarely remember eating fruit growing up at all, let alone something slightly exotic like Mango. Instead I grew up eating candy from Mexico that was shaped like a fruit and always a bit spicy. Not enough spice to turn you away, but just enough to quench your craving and leave you wanting more. My favorite was the mango candy. Many moons later I had fresh mango sliced with a tinge of fresh lime juice splashed on top and a pinch of chile powder. A man was standing on the street selling chopped fruit and I picked mango since I knew for sure I loved the candy. It was absolute heaven, I think the fruit actually shut me up, I didn’t speak or say a word. I was too lost in the moment of savoring this delicious treat that I had to keep silent in order to taste it all with every ounce of my being. The rest is history and since then I am a serious mango consumer. I can not walk into a super market and pass the mango bin without packing a bag to take home.
The other day I was packing a lunch for my son and thought I would pack him a fruit leather. As I packed him his lunch I thought back to the candy I loved as a child with the mango, lime and chile…. I thought my son would enjoy it. The next day I made him this lovely mango leather and he ate it and asked for more.
Ingredients for spicy mango lime leather:
- 2- ripe mangos
- 1 – large ripe lime (juiced)
- 1 – tablespoon tajin
- Preheat oven to 175 degrees fahrenheit.
- Peel mango with a potato peeler, then cut flesh on each side of the bone.
- Dice mango into cubes.
- Place all mango cubes in a food processor
- Squeeze lime over mango, then add the tajin.
- Pulse until completely smooth.
- Pour mango puree onto a rimmed baking sheet lined with a baking mat or wax paper.
- Bake for 8 hours at 180 degrees fahrenheit.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool.
- Slowly and gently pull the leather away from the baking mat.
- Cut the edges of the leather off to make a perfect square.
- Cut leather into long strips.
- Place the leather strip onto a piece of wax paper and cut the wax paper to fit size of strip.
- Roll the strip up into a compact roll.
- Store in an air tight container for up to a week.
- Enjoy!
How to store mangos:
- Keep unripe mangos at room temperature.
- Mangos shouldn’t be refrigerated before they are ripe.
- To speed up ripening, place mangos in a paper bag at room temperature.
- Once ripe, mangos should be moved to the refrigerator, which will slow down the ripening process. Whole, ripe mangos may be stored for up to five days in the refrigerator.
- Mangos may be peeled, cubed and placed in an airtight container in the freezer for up to six months.
Would you like to enter for a chance toWIN a mango kit? Please tell me in a comment below what you make with MANGOS? This giveaway is now officially CLOSED!
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Open to U.S. Residents only. No PO Boxes, please. Must be 18 years or older to enter. Contest ends October 11th, 2013 at 9:00 PM, PST and one (1) winner will be randomly chosen from all entries through random.org, and contacted by email. The winner will have 24 hours to respond with a mailing address, or the next winner up will be chosen.
This looks delicious! What temp do you bake it at for 8 hours? I am assuming something really low. What I like to make with mangos is not very original. I do a fruit salad with sliced mangos, peaches, raspberries and/or blueberries and pineapple. Yum!
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Not only does it look absolutely delicious but you made it look so easy!!!!!
I didn’t grow up eating mangoes, but now I love them.
My favorite is doing a sweet puree to drizzle over crepes.
I make mango lassi that my family loves
I make mango smoothies and mango salsa
We LOVE mangos and will totally try to make fruit leathers with them thanks to this recipe! We usually just stick to mango smoothies like big, boring nerds.
Crossing my fingers for a win and SO glad I got to see your session at Blogalicious today! Great job!
I usually make a fruit salad but I think I would like to try to make Coconut Shrimp with Ginger Mango Sauce
I’d make a Thai mango curry with chicken and shrimp!
Oh I love mangos! My favorite thing to make with them is sticky rice with mangos on top! Yum!
I would use the mangoes in a salad of some kind! I have several salad recipes that call for mangoes.
This recipe looks absolutely DELICIOUS! I would love to try it! I also love mangos plain & in my smoothies 🙂 YUM! Thanks for the chance to win!!
I’d Make Mango Bread!
I make smoothies.