Aam ka Panna - Raw Mango Mash or Drink

A delicious, refreshing summer dish that is tasty and hats lots of vitamins. Play with the ingredients and find your own mixture!

How to make Aam ka Panna?

Although you won’t eat the peel, you should wash your mangoes before you start. After washing, put them into a pot with water and place that pot onto the stove, getting the water to boil. Let the mangoes boil for ten to fifteen minutes until they are fully soft inside. An alternative to boiling which will also give a nice taste, is baking them in an oven until the inside is soft.

When you take them out of either oven or boiling water, you need to put them in cold water first so that they can cool down. Once they are cold you can peel of the skin and take out the pulp into a bowl. Take a spoon and scratch the rest of the pulp from the peel and the stone. Put the pulp in a bowl and mash it nicely with a fork.

Now you take the mint leaves and grind them to a nice paste. Put a pan on the stove and when it is hot, add the cumin into it. Roast it until it has darkened a bit and developed a nice aroma. Grind it to powder and then mix the cumin, the mint and some salt into the mango mash.

If you like your Aam ka Panna like this, strong and sour, you can just stop at this point. You can take small amounts for example with bread or rice.

If you don’t like it that sour, you can mix water and make a sauce or even a drink out of it. And if you like it sweet, just mix some sugar into it! You can also mix sugar into the mash without adding water – however you like it best! Enjoy!!