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Recipe: Spicy Mango Dessert

August 7, 2012 by Carrie Anne 4 Comments

What could be better than a simple, thrifty treat in the middle of the week? How about if that same thrifty, simple treat required no stove or oven time and was just as easy to serve to a crowd as it is to make for yourself. This mango dessert is all things to all people, and before you protest that you cannot tolerate spicy food let me assure you that this is spicy in only the most mildest of forms. I am the sort of person who finds radishes to be tad too piquant, raw onions to be nearly too asserting, and too much black pepper, well, spicy. You can control completely the relative spiciness of this dish so that a three year old would find it palatable. And indeed, I did.

To me, this dessert is pure summer. The idea for this dish came to me by combining my two favorite summer time treats: fresh fruit sprinkled with lime and chili and the farmer’s market and my local bagel shop’s creamy mango smoothie. Let the powers of dairy, mango and chili lime combine in one fabulously easy, seasonally thrifty, delicious mango dessert.

Ingredients:

  • Mangoes, half a large mango per person
  • Tajin, a Mexican chili-lime spice combo found in the grocery store or by ordering online. I buy the one chili pepper version that is not, in any way, truly spicy.
  • Whipped cream

Method:

– Slice your mango into perfect squares, as the photo above proves I was able to do one time, or into rough chunks.

– Once all the mango you need is chopped, put in a bowl and toss with a coating of Tajin.

– Fill each serving dish or glass with a layer of whipped cream.

– Add your speckled chunks saffron yellow mango to each dish.

– Garnish with a few more sprinkles of Tajin. This dish can be enjoyed at room temperature or chilled. I like it both ways. After eating a few chunks off the top I like to swirl the cream over the the top of the mango and mix it in a bit. Heavenly.

 

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Filed Under: Little Big Kitchen, OMFN Tagged With: Chili, Dessert, Food, Lime, Little Big Kitchen, Mangoes, OMFN, Recipes, Spicy, Summer, Tajin

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Comments

  1. Marie says

    August 10, 2012 at 8:13 pm

    But, why does it say “This is not candy”? When I get to California I am going to seek this stuff out just to see that it actually says “This is not candy”. Why does it say that? Why? I’m very upset about this.
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    • Carrie Anne says

      August 13, 2012 at 9:37 am

      Right?! This is why I had to photograph that. I have NO IDEA. I’m not even sure why anyone would even THINK it’s candy. Nothing about the packaging is even remotely candy-like, plus it has flaming hot chili peppers on the side. Duh.

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      • Nerine says

        September 4, 2013 at 7:34 pm

        I know your comments are from one year ago (!) but I recently had to explain this to a non-Mexican friend. A LOT of Mexican candies tend to be spicy or feature chili for whatever reason. They even have a candy that looks somewhat similar to Tajin, it’s kind of spicy-sweet…interesting flavor in any case.
        I assume this is why they label this as they do. ;)

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        • Carrie Anne says

          September 5, 2013 at 2:01 pm

          Hey, no worries that this post is a year old! Bloggers love nothing so much as comments. :)

          And that makes total sense.

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