The TFN team is bound by a love of mangoes – and travel, of course. That love stems from many happy memories of consuming these delicious fruits in preparations that were particular to the kitchens we grew up in. Here are 3 delightful traditional Indian drinks with mango that you can easily make at home.
Aam Panna
A sweet and savoury cooling drink made from green mangoes that’s great for hot summer days.
6 raw mangoes
500ml water
2 bunches of mint leaves, finely chopped
Jaggery, to taste
Salt, to taste (preferably black salt)
1 tsp jeera powder, roasted (roast the jeera on a pan, then grind it)
Peel the green mangoes, put them in the pressure cooker with the water, and let it whistle 3-4 four times until soft. Cool the boiled mangoes, and with clean hands, mash the pulp and remove the seeds. Pour it into the mixer. Add the mint to the mixer. Add jaggery or sugar to sweeten the aam panna or aam pora sharbat as per taste. If your mixer is not very powerful, melt the jaggery in some warm water before adding it in. You’ll have to put in a fair bit to sweeten the sour raw mangoes. Add in the salt and the roasted jeera powder. Mix together until the mint completely disappears into the mixture. This will give you a thick concentrate. To serve, fill a glass halfway with the concentrate, add two cubes of ice, and top off with cold water. Stir and drink up.
Baflo
It’s a great refreshing drink for summer and is extremely well-known in Gujarati households.
3 raw mangoes (makes 5 servings)
Salt, to taste
Chaat masala, to taste
Sugar or jaggery, to taste
Water
Boil the raw mangoes until soft, or put them in a cooker and wait for two whistles. Let them cool, unpeel, and remove all the pulp from the seed. Heat the jaggery (or sugar) in a cup of water until it melts, and add it to the mango pulp. Blend all of this in a mixer. Add water, salt, chaat masala, according to taste. Strain the residue and refrigerate.
Mango Lassi
Blitz up mangoes with curd, cardamom, lime and honey and you have the most delicious lassi drink – a bit like a smoothie and great for breakfast.
3-4 ripe mangoes (use any variety of Indian mangoes)
500gm curd
a pinch ground cardamom
1 tbsp honey
2 limes, juiced, to taste
Put all the ingredients apart from the lime juice in a food processor and blitz. Add the lime juice along with a pinch of salt, to taste, if the cardamom isn’t strong enough then add a little more, then pour into glasses with some ice cubes and serve.
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