HOT AND SPICY MANGO MOJITO (NON-ALCOHOLIC)
During the summer months, I am always looking for colourful fruity and spicy drinks. This hot and spicy mango mojito will do the trick every time. Enjoying this drink on a nice sunny day with some guacamole and tortilla chips on my patio listening to some latino music is the best way to spend a nice evening. This drink is diluted with sparkling water and has no added sugar or alcohol (if you need to spike it, substitute the sparkling water for more mango juice and add rum or tequila.)
Ingredients you need are unsweetened mango juice, lime, jalapeño, mint leaves, himalayan salt, sparkling water or club soda.
Chop lime in quarters and slice 2 for garnish, slice 1/2 a jalapeño, and chop 4 mint leaves.
In a mortar and pestle mash up the lime, jalapeno and mint adding 1/4 tsp of Himalayan salt. Scoop out the mashed ingredients and add to 1 cup of unsweetened mango juice.
Add 1 cup of sparkling water or 1 cup of club soda and 6-8 ice cubes.
HOT AND SPICY MANGO MOJITO (NON-ALCOHOLIC)
Serves: 2
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
INGREDIENTS
1 cup unsweetened mango juice
1 lime chopped in quarters ( reserve 2 semi circle slices for garnish)
1/4 to 1/2 jalapeno sliced in circles (the more you use, the spicier)
7 mint leaves (chopped fine and reserve 3 for garnish)
1/4 tsp.Himalayan salt
1 cup sparkling water or club soda
INSTRUCTIONS
Place 2 glasses in the freezer and chill for 10 minutes. In a mortar, add lime chopped into quarters, sliced jalapeños, chopped mint leaves, Himalayan salt and mash with pestle till all ingredients are meshed together. Add all ingredients to mango juice, then add sparkling water and ice and stir and pour into chilled glasses. Garnish with jalapeno slices, mint leaves and a slice of lime.
Enjoy!
SPICY MANGO SALAD
Mangoes were always sold on vendor carts in Uganda -split and sprinkled with lots of hot chilli powder and lemon salt. Memories of walking home after school during my childhood always include spicy mangoes. The mangoes were either raw, sour and crunchy or ripe, soft and sweet. When mangoes are in season here, I normally take advantage of using them in refreshing salads, salsas and drinks.
My recipes are rather on the spicy side as my memories of mangoes always include “hot and spicy”. One of my favourite salads in the summer is a good mango salad. I have tried various ingredients like jicama, cucumbers, peppers but I always loved the combination of green apples, red onions, jalapeños and ripe mangoes.
The ingredients sliced thin and evenly will make the salad more appealing and enjoyable. Jalapeños can be sliced long or chopped fine depending on your spice taste buds! For me, the spicier the better.
SPICY MANGO SALAD
Serves: 2
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Serves: 2 Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 20 minutesRating: 5.0/5 ( 1 voted )
INGREDIENTS
1/2 green apple thinly sliced
1 ripe mango thinly sliced
1/2 red onion thinly sliced
1/2 jalapeño thinly sliced
1 garlic clove mashed
1/4 tsp cumin ground
Himalayan salt to taste
Juice of 1 lime
2 tbsp olive oil
1/4 cup cilantro chopped
1-2 tsp TrueNosh Ghost pepper sauce
INSTRUCTIONS
Slice all ingredients evenly and mix all ingredients together. True Nosh hot sauces are sugar free, preservative free and gluten free and perfectly spicy for my salad.
Enjoy!