How do you cut a mango?

Answer 1

Hold the mango upright with the base on a chopping board (so it stands tall). The mango has a tough fibrous flattish stone in the middle. You need to cut down on both wide sides about 1-2cm out from where the stalk used to be to give two pieces of edible fruit. You will be left with the flat stone. Cut carefully down the two narrow sides closer to the skin. You will now have two wide pieces and two narrow pieces of fruit. Discard the stone. Scoop out the flesh from the skins or make criss-cross incisions, invert and then cut horizontally to create chunks of flesh.

Answer 2

The Magic of a Mango

• Mangoes have a large, white, flattened elliptical pit that doesn't separate easily from the fruit. Here's a trick I learned on the Martha Stewart show about how to cut a mango:

  The best approach is to cut the fruit in half beginning from the stem. As you move your knife down, you will feel the top of the pit. Continue your cut down, angling just away from the pit and then back toward the center at the bottom of the fruit. With experience, it will be clear how the pit is oriented in the fruit. Repeat on the other side to shear the fruit from the pit. You will then be left with two thin strips on the sides, which you can also cut off.

  The skin of the mango is fairly tough and not pleasant to eat. Place the cut strips skin-side down on your counter and cut the fruit into cubes just to the surface of the skin. Then, pick up the strip and push the skin up toward the center. The strip will open up like an umbrella and it is easy to run your knife just along the skin to liberate your cubes from the skin.

  There's always some fruit left clinging to the pit which I gnaw off as my reward for cooking!

• I can't track down the selfsame video that the previous answerer mentioned. However, I found a different but very easy-to-follow video. See the Related Link.
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• Thank you for the tip! I usually end up covered in juice when I try cutting mangoes!

Answer 3

To prepare a mango you cut off the outer skin, and then cut away the orange fruit from the seed in the middle. The seed is giant, so make sure you don't cut into it! It's a hard seed so it would be difficult to cut into it, but the you can serve it cube cut with a little tiny bit of salt on top or none and it's delicious! (:

Answer 4

I have gotten mango pits to sprout by wrapping them in moistened paper towels. The trick seems to be keeping the paper towels just moist enough without letting it dry out or get too soaked. In a bowl with plastic wrap over the top helps. Be sure to put the whole pit in the paper towels. I have never had any luck pulling the seed kernel out of the harder shell.

Answer 5

A mango is a slightly flattened ovoid, with a large pit in the center, and a skin that is a bit heavier than that of an apple. Most people prefer to peel off the skin first (a knife or potato peeler will do that) although the skin is perfectly edible and I personally don't bother peeling it off. When slicing the mango, you want to avoid cutting where the pit is, so you slice on the sides, something like halfway between the center of the fruit and the outside. As you cut it, you will be able to see more clearly exactly where the pit is. You just cut around the pit.

Answer 6

with a sharp knife

Answer 7

yes a mango has a pit