How To Properly Peel And Cut A Mango With A Bone At Home: A Description Of The Main Methods, Photos And Videos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

How to properly peel and cut a mango

One of the exotic fruits that are popular not only in their homeland, but also in other countries, is mango. It is not surprising, because the ripe fruit has a rich taste, wonderful aroma and juicy pulp. It is also rich in many vitamins and trace elements, which is why it is massively used to enhance immunity and improve brain function by the inhabitants of India, where the plant is grown. But how to properly clean sweet exotic and cut it?

Content

• 1 What is this fruit and how is it eaten

  1.1 Do I need to peel mangoes

• 2 How to properly peel fruit at home

  • 2.1 How to quickly and easily remove a bone with a knife

    • 2.1.1 Method 1
    • 2.1.2 Video: how to remove the bone in this way
    • 2.1.3 Method 2
    • 2.1.4 Method 3

  • 2.2 How to peel a mango

    2.2.1 Video: The Two Easiest Ways to Peel Mangoes

• 3 How beautiful you can cut a mango (with photo)

  • 3.1 Cubes (hedgehog method)

    • 3.1.1 Video: how to cut a fruit using the hedgehog method
    • 3.1.2 Lobules

  • 3.2 Thin plates

    • 3.2.1 Video: a beautiful rose made from a whole mango
    • 3.2.2 Video: how to cut a mango quickly
    • 3.2.3 Video: about the benefits of mango

What is this fruit and how is it eaten

Mango is a tropical fruit with green, yellow or red skin, also called the Asian apple. It is rich in vitamins B and A, calcium, magnesium, potassium and iron. Eating one ripe fruit will give you half the daily value of vitamin C for an adult.

Ripe fruit can have a peel not only red or yellow, but also green

Please note that it is very common information that mangoes can be eaten unripe. This is not true. Of course, in India, locals calmly eat fruits at all stages of ripeness, much like we do apples, but they are used to this. Eating unripe fruit can lead to gastrointestinal upset and respiratory irritation.

The ripe fruit has a smooth, shiny skin with a bright and rich hue. The presence of dark specks on it is a sign of a mature mango. If you squeeze it lightly with your fingers, then barely noticeable dents will remain. The fruit has a pleasant sweetish aroma, which is enhanced by the tail. The pulp should be juicy and fibrous, easily separating from the stone. If it is firm, then the fruit is still green; if it is too viscous, like pumpkin porridge, it is overripe.

The pulp should not be too viscous, but not hard, but juicy and bloody

Do I need to peel mangoes

The mango peel is thick, firm, tasteless and completely useless for the body. Moreover, it is harmful as it contains urushiol, an organic oily toxin that causes skin allergies. If, after contact with the peel, you have a rash on your hands, this does not mean that you cannot have mangoes. Just put on latex gloves first the next time you clean it. In addition, when buying a fruit in a supermarket, you cannot find out what the plant was treated with when growing, and after all, harmful substances accumulate in the skin of the fruit. Therefore, during cleaning, it, like the bone, should be removed.

Mango peel is inedible and must be removed

How to properly peel fruit at home

Mangoes are peeled in a variety of ways, which differ only in whether they need to be peeled immediately or at the end of the process. In any case, you first need to tear off the tail with leaves, if present, and thoroughly wash the fruit under cool running water to wash off dust and dirt. Use a vegetable brush if you wish, but this is not necessary as the skin will still need to be removed.

Rinse the mango thoroughly to remove any impurities

Then wipe the fruit dry for easy peeling.

How to quickly and easily remove a bone with a knife

Method 1

The good thing about this method is that you practically don't have to use a knife. This is important when it comes to mangoes, as the flesh is very slippery, making the fruit difficult to hold and easily injured.

1. Place the fruit on a cutting board. Above should be the part where the ponytail used to be.

   

   Hold the fruit in this position with your non-dominant hand

2. Take a serrated knife with your leading hand (it will slide less than a regular one) and make one continuous vertical cut from the tail to the very bottom, reaching with the knife to the bone. If there are two barely noticeable lines on the sides of the mango that show how the bone is located, then cut one of them.

   

   Swipe the knife from top to bottom, reaching the tip to the bone

3. Rotate the fruit 180 degrees and make another cut.

4. Next, you need to act depending on how the bone is located. If you cut along the lines, then it lies along the halves of the mango. Try simply pulling the halves in different directions: if the fruit is ripe but not overripe, the stone will come off easily.

   

   The stone will come off easily only if the fruit is ripe but not overripe

5. If it was not possible to divide the fruit, place the mango as you like, take one part with your fingers so that it does not move, and scroll the other several times. So, the bone will separate from only one half of the mango, and from the second it can be taken out with a spoon or cut out.

   

   If the mango is overripe, then its fibers are very soft, which is why the stone is difficult to separate

6. If the bone is located across the incisions, then take both parts in your hands and scroll in different directions.

   

   The bone will separate from one of their parts, and from the other it can be pulled out with your fingers

7. From the resulting parts, the pulp can be cut with a sharp knife or eaten with a regular teaspoon. The latter is especially convenient, since the peel will not allow the pulp to creep away and the juice to flow out, that is, it will act as a plate.

   

   The pulp is easy to reach with a teaspoon

Video: how to remove the bone in this way

Method 2

The second option allows you to quickly pull out the bone without removing the skin. After removing the seed, the fruit can be peeled and cut as you like, even into rings. This is very convenient, because after removing the peel, the mango becomes very slippery, and it is almost impossible to remove the stone without turning the pulp into porridge.

1. Place the mango on a cutting board.

   

   Place the mango on the board with the tail facing towards the dominant hand

2. Make an incision from top to bottom near the tail, reaching the bone, and twist the knife towards your dominant hand to separate the pulp. Use a spoon to remove the bone.

   

   The spoon will easily pass through the flesh if the fruit is ripe enough

3. Next, you can gently peel off or cut the mango straight away.

   

   Slice the fruit nicely or peel it off with a knife

Method 3

This method is suitable for those who are good with a knife. With the proper skill, you can quickly remove the bone without removing the skin.

1. Cut the mango in half by running your knife along the flat side of the pit.

   

   You can remove the skin before cutting the mango if you are going to cut the fruit into wedges.

2. Run your knife directly under the bone to cut it out.

   

   Carefully cut the bone

3. You are left with two halves of the fruit and a flat bone that should be thrown away. The pulp can be eaten with a spoon, or peeled and cut.

   

   The mango pit is flat and large, so it is easy to cut

How to peel a mango

• If the mango is ripe, the peel will easily separate from the pulp. Make four cross cuts on the opposite side of the fruit. After that, gently pull on the piece of skin.

  

  If the mango is ripe, the skin will come off easily

• If peeling off the skin with your fingers is inconvenient due to the slippery pulp, you can use a small knife. But try to cut the peel very thinly, practically without clinging to the pulp. And be careful with your knife so you don't cut yourself.

  

  Cut the rind into strips as thin as possible

• You can also peel the mango with a regular vegetable peeler. The only thing is, do not press too hard on the fruit, otherwise you will cut off a lot of pulp. Take care of your hands, they will be very slippery.

  

  Skin can be removed with a vegetable peeler, but it takes too long compared to other options

The above methods work great when it comes to the whole fruit. But what if you have already cut it in half and removed the bone, and you do not want to suffer with a knife?

1. Take two containers: an empty, clean glass and a plate. Take one half of the mango with your dominant hand. Grasp the glass with your free hand to keep it from moving.

   

   The glass should not be too small so that the pulp can fit in it

2. Bring the mango to a glass so that the peel remains outside the container. Press down on the fruit without using too much force.

   

   The peel will separate from the pulp in a thin layer

3. Transfer the pulp to a plate and discard the rind. Note that you are not using a knife or peeler, which means you will definitely not get hurt.

   

   This method works great with ripe mangoes: the peel will come off very easily.

4. As a result, you will have peeled mango halves that can be sliced beautifully to serve.

   

   Mango is now easy to cut into strips, wedges or cubes

Video: two of the easiest ways to peel a mango

How to cut a mango beautifully (with photo)

Cubes (hedgehog method)

1. Wash the mango as in preparation for cleaning.

2. Place it on a cutting board with the bone facing you and tail up. Keep the knife parallel to the board, to the side of the bone.

   

   Hold the fruit in place with your non-dominant hand

3. Cut off a piece of the mango. Then rotate the fruit and repeat the manipulation on the other side.

   

   Cut the fruit as close to the bone as in the photo

4. Now you have two identical pieces and a middle with a bone. Take one of the pieces with the pulp and make cuts on it with a grid, without cutting the skin.

   

   The incisions should be approximately one centimeter apart

5. Press down on the skin with your fingers until the pulp cubes are on top.

   

   You should get this hedgehog

6. Carefully cut the resulting cubes with a knife. If the fruit is overripe and you are going to eat it yourself, you can simply use a fork to rip the mango straight from the skin.

   

   The cubes can be folded into a small container to serve

7. Next, gently remove the peel from the pitted part of the mango with your fingers.

   

   The skin can be easily removed by hand

8. Cut a bone out of the middle. After that, the remaining pulp should also be cut into cubes.

   

   Use a small knife to remove the bone

Video: how to cut a fruit using the hedgehog method

Slices

The mango can also be cut into slices like a regular apple. Just do it with caution: the fruit will quickly become slippery due to the juice, as a result of which the knife will begin to slip. For convenience, you can cut off the top and bottom of the fruit, so it will become easier to wield with a knife, and the slices themselves will look neater.

You need to eat mango slices immediately after cutting, until sleep flows onto the plate

Thin plates

If you are good at using a knife, you can cut the fruit into thin slices to decorate with them later, for example, a dessert. Just peel off the peel using one of the methods described above, and then, gently holding the fruit, cut off the plates with a sharp knife.

Many different figures can be assembled from the plates, of course, if you have enough free time

Video: a beautiful rose made from a whole mango

Video: how to quickly cut a mango

Video: about the benefits of mango

Mango can be called a capricious fruit, because its ripeness is not easy to check, and it is even more difficult to peel and cut beautifully. However, using the above methods, you can easily cope with this task. Do not deny yourself the pleasure of eating delicious overseas fruit, and your body - to get the vitamins and minerals it needs. But remember that everything is fine in moderation: do not consume more than two mangoes a day.