Best Mango Fool Recipes

MANGO & PASSION FRUIT FOOL

Steps:

• Peel the mangoes using a vegetable peeler. Slice the cheeks off one and cut into small dice. Set aside.
• Cut the flesh from the remaining mango and stone, then purée flesh in a liquidiser. Squeeze out the seeds from 2 of the passion fruit halves and mix with the mango purée. Add lime juice to taste. Gently fold the yogurt and half the diced mango through the fruity purée.
• Divide between 4 glasses and top with the remaining diced mango. Cover and chill for 30 mins before eating. Scoop the seeds from the remaining passion fruit over the top of the fools to serve.

MANGO BLUEBERRY "FOOL"

Steps:

• Purée mango, sugar, lime juice, and a pinch of salt in a blender until very smooth. Add cream and blend until very thick. Blend in additional lime juice and sugar to taste.
• Transfer to a bowl and fold in most of blueberries, then divide among 6 glasses. Top with remaining blueberries and zest. If desired, chill, loosely covered, 30 minutes.

REALLY EASY AFRICAN MANGO FOOL

Steps:

• Peel and cut mango into pieces. Place the mango in the blender or food processor with the sugar and puree. Fold in desired amount of whipped cream and chill in the fridge. Serve when cold. Enjoy!

MANGO FOOL

Steps:

• Peel and cut the mangoes into small pieces and dump them in a blender.
• Put aside enough slices to garnish.
• Add the ginger, sugar and lime juice to the blender and blend until smooth.
• In a separate bowl, whip the cream (I would suggest an electric mixer) until peaks form.
• Fold the mango mixture into the whipped cream, a bit at a time.
• Stir, then gradually add more, until they are all mixed together.
• Pour the mixture into bowls and chill for one hour before serving.

AFRICAN MANGO FOOL

Steps:

• Heat the milk (or coconut milk) in a double boiler, or in a saucepan over low heat. Do not boil.
• In a bowl, mix the 1/4-1/2 cup of sugar into the beaten eggs. SLOWLY add about a quarter of the heated milk to the egg/sugar mixture, while stirring constantly. (The continuous stirring serves to prevent the eggs from quickly cooking into scrambled eggs.).
• Slowly stir the egg/sugar/milk mixture into the remaining heated milk. Cook on low heat, until it thickens into a custard, stirring gently and continuously. Spoon it into a clean bowl and place in the refrigerator to cool.
• While the custard is cooling, cook the fruit:.
• Bring the water and three tablespoons of sugar to a boil in a saucepan. Add mango pieces. Reduce heat and cook until tender, five to ten minutes, stirring occasionally. Mash mango(or papaya), or press it through a sieve. Scoop it into a clean bowl and place in the refrigerator to cool.
• To serve:.
• Gently fold together custard and fruit. Spoon into serving bowls. Top with whipped cream, if desired. Serve immediately or keep in refrigerator for no more than a day.
• Note: An easy-to-make fool: Liquify fruit and sugar in blender or food processor. Fold into whipped cream. Chill and serve.

CRANBERRY-MANGO FOOL WITH GINGERSNAPS

Steps:

• Put the cranberry-mango relish in a food processor and process until smooth.
• Whip together the cream, sugar and vanilla extract until soft peaks form. Reserve 1/4 cup of the cream in a separate bowl. Fold the puree into the remaining cream until just combined. Fill each red wine goblet 1/2 way with some of the fool and sprinkle with some of the gingersnaps. Fill the goblets the rest of the way with the fool, top with a dollop of the remaining whipped cream and a sprinkling of gingersnap.
• Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium high heat. Add onions and ginger and cook until soft. Add orange juice and brown sugar and cook until the sugar is completely melted and the mixture thickens slightly, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Add half of the cranberries and cook until they pop. Add remaining cranberries and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in the mangoes and zest. Serve at room temperature.

THE CARIBBEAN MANGO FOOL

Steps:

• Put mango pieces in blender & liquidize (or mash well in a bowl with a fork).
• Stir the lime or lemon juice into the mango puree, mixing well.
• In another bowl, whisk the cream until it starts to thicken, but not enough to form peaks. Set aside.
• Stir in the yogurt & coconut milk (if using) into the mango mixture.
• Gently fold the cream into the mango mixture.
• Pour the fool into bowls or glasses and put them into the refrigerator to chill until serving time.
• Decorate with slices of mango before serving.

RASPBERRY MANGO FOOL

Steps:

• Blend everything except the heavy cream and schnapps in a blender or food processor, and chill, covered, in a metal bowl in the refrigerator at least 8 hours.
• Whip the heavy cream and schnapps until it forms stiff peaks, and fold it into the fruit mixture.
• Serve immediately.
• Cooking time is chilling time.

MANGO-STRAWBERRY FOOL

Steps:

• Peel the mangoes and remove the pulp from the seed, trying to keep at least 4 nice slices of mango intact for garnish; set them aside.
• In a food processor, puree the remaining pulp to a very fine puree with the salt.
• Strain through a fine mesh strainer, pushing hard on the solids.
• Chill your mixer bowl and whip in the freezer for 10 minutes.
• Whip the cream and sugar until soft peaks form.
• Carefully, carefully fold the cream into the mango.
• Wash, dry and hull the strawberries.
• Slice into quarters.
• Into each glass put a spoonful of strawberry pieces.
• Top with a dollop of mango-cream.
• Top with more berries, then more mango, continuing in layers this way until you have filled the glasses.
• End each with the mango-cream.
• Garnish each with one of the reserved slices of mango and a little mint sprig.
• Serve immediately.
• Note 1- if your mangoes are really sweet don't add any sugar to the cream, just whip it without it.
• Note 2- this dish won't hold long once you've put it together, 30 minutes or so most.
• But you can prepare the mango cream and strawberries up to the point of layering several hours a head.
• Get your glasses out and ready, and then just layer before service.
• Note 3- try this with raspberries instead of strawberries- heaven!

MANGO FOOL (OR PAPAYA OR BANANA...)

Steps:

• CUSTARD.
• Heat coconut milk and water in double boiler or heavy saucepan over low heat, do not boil.
• In a bowl, mix sugar into beaten eggs. Slowly stir in about 1/2 cup of the heated milk to the egg-sugar mixture to temper.
• Slowly stir the egg-sugar mixture into heated milk. Cook on low heat until thickened into a custard, stirring gently and continuously.
• Add salt to taste. Refrigerate custard.
• FRUIT.
• While custard is cooling, peel, seed and chop fruit. Cook the fruit by bringing water and sugar to a boil in a saucepan. Add fruit pieces, reduce heat and cook until tender, 5-10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Mash fruit or press through a sieve. Refrigerate.
• SERVE.
• Gently fold together cooled custard and cooled fruit. Spoon into serving bowls and top with whipped cream.

MANGO FOOL

Steps:

• Sprinkle gelatin over 3 tablespoons milk in a small bowl and let soften while making custard.
• Bring remaining milk just to a boil in a small heavy saucepan, then remove from heat. Whisk together egg and 1/4 cup sugar until combined well, then add hot milk in a slow stream, whisking.
• Pour custard into pan and cook over moderately low heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until an instant-read thermometer registers 170°F and custard coats back of spoon (do not boil), about 2 minutes. Stir in gelatin mixture and cook over low heat, stirring, until dissolved, about 1 minute (do not boil). Pour custard through a sieve into a bowl and cool, stirring occasionally.
• Purée mangoes with remaining 1/4 cup sugar and lime juice in a blender until very smooth and force through sieve into custard. Stir until combined well, then chill until cold but not set, about 1 hour.
• Beat cream with an electric mixer until it just holds stiff peaks, then fold into mango custard gently but thoroughly. Chill, covered, at least 8 hours.
• Before serving, spoon fool into 6 dishes.

MANGO AND VANILLA FOOL

Steps:

• Reserve a few pieces of mango to garnish.
• Puree the remaining mango flesh with the lemon juice and vanilla paste. Add the vanilla sugar according to your taste, depending on the sweetness of the mangoes.
• Fold the puree into the yoghurt and spoon into glasses. Place in the refrigerator until well chilled.
• Serve the chilled fool garnished with the reserved mango and mint.

MANGO FOOL (MOUSSE DE MANGO)

Steps:

• Place mango, 2 tablespoons sugar, lime and orange juice into bowl of a food processor and blend until smooth. Scrape mixture into a large mixing bowl and chill completely. Whip cream with remaining sugar until stiff peaks form. Fold whipped cream into mango mixture and spoon into small dessert cups. Serve immediately.