Our Best Mango Recipes to Make the Most of Mango Season

Our best mango recipes include everything from recipes for mango sticky rice and mango sago pudding to mango jam and mango gazpacho.

Mango Sticky Rice

One of the best mango recipes has to be mango sticky rice, my favourite Thai sweet. I’ve been missing Thailand and the Thai capital Bangkok, especially Bangkok’s great restaurants as much as Bangkok’s fantastic street food.

I adore eating sticky rice with mango, whether it’s on Bangkok’s streets, in its old school eateries, or fancy restaurant dining rooms, and chef David Thompson’s mango sticky rice recipe from his Thai Street Food cookbook is my go-to sticky rice with mango recipe.

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Mango Jam

Another one of the best mango recipes to make the most of the mango season harvest has to be mango jam. We’ve been using this easy mango jam recipe since the mango season started, as it’s so simple and so delicious. I adore fresh homemade jams. Jams and preserves also make thoughtful edible gifts.

One of the things I love about the boutique hotels here in Siem Reap, and in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, and other Southeast Asian destinations, is that they often serve delicious house-made fruit jams made with seasonal tropical fruits for breakfast. If you’ve never made homemade mango jam before, or any homemade jam, try this and you might never buy a jam from the supermarket again.

Easy Mango Jam Recipe to Make Use of the Mango Season Harvest

Mango Gazpacho

I love this fantastic mango gazpacho recipe for a chilled mango soup from Spain, which is easily another of our best mango recipes. We’ve been eating and cooking traditional gazpacho in the Southern Spain style forever.

But we really became smitten with less familiar interpretations of that traditional cold Spanish soup at contemporary Catalan restaurants in Barcelona and Mallorca many years ago, including this mango gazpacho.

The most memorable was a mango gazpacho with lobster and avocado by Marc Fosh at his Michelin-starred restaurant in the 17th century Hotel Convent de la Missió in Palma de Mallorca. He also did a wonderful watermelon gazpacho.

Mango Gazpacho Recipe for Gazpacho de Mango, A Chilled Soup for Summer

Mango Salads

One of my favourite mango recipes is a Cambodian green mango salad with smoked fish, shallots, dried prawns, fresh fragrant herbs, such as basil and mint, peanuts, and birds eye chillies. Green mango salads are also eaten in neighbouring Thailand, Vietnam and Laos, and you’ll find slightly different versions in each country.

In Thailand, they use more chillies in their mango salads than they do here in Cambodia, where they use just enough to give the dish a little bite rather than fiery heat. This green mango salad is easily another of our best mango recipes.

Green Mango Salad and Smoked Fish Recipe for Cambodia’s Nhoam Svay Trei Chhae

Mango Mains

Aside from savoury mango salads, mango is not eaten a lot as part of a savoury main in Southeast Asia, however, one chef who does use mango in his cooking, particularly with seafood, is Vietnamese chef Duc Tran, owner of Mango Mango, Mango Rooms, and Mai Fish restaurants in Hoi An in Central Vietnam.

Chef Duc uses mango sauces on everything from ceviches to fillets of white fish. I do love a mango curry. We’ve been eating Indian food for decades, however, we’ve not done a lot of travelling in India so I had no idea there were so many mango curry recipes. I’ll definitely be trying one or two and posting them here after I do, so watch this space.

Mango Desserts

When it comes to mango desserts, nothing beats an Australian pavlova with mango for me. It screams Australian summer. Terence makes a fantastic mango and passionate pavlova, which is based on Australian chef Neil Perry‘s Rockpool Bar & Grill pavlova recipe, below.

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Mango Eton Mess

The next best thing to a pavlova is an Eton Mess. I love a traditional Eton mess with strawberries and berries, however, strawberries are not grown in Cambodia so when we can get them they’re expensive. I’m loving the berries here in Australia right now and recently made mini pavlovas with berries. They were so delish. I’ll share that recipe soon.

Back in Cambodia I love to make a tropical Eton Mess recipe with mango, passionfruit and dragon fruit, based on the traditional British Eton Mess. It’s easily another of our best mango recipes and absolutely heavenly if you’re a fan of the old mess.

Tropical Eton Mess Recipe with Mango, Passionfruit and Dragonfruit

Mango Sago

Our easy mango sago recipe makes a healthy version of the creamy Southeast Asian mango sago pudding that’s made without cream – no coconut cream, no dairy cream, no condensed milk, nada.

The secret to the creaminess of this mango sago dessert is frozen mangos (just like with our mango smoothie, below), which makes this mango sago pudding healthier than most. It’s absolutely delicious.

Our Best Mango Sago Recipe for an Easy Healthy Creamy Mango Sago Pudding

Mango Drinks

Mango smoothies, mango coolers, mango lassis… cold mango drinks are so refreshing during this sultry season. Today I’m peeling the mangoes that are well and truly ripe, that I know I won’t eat, for freezing.

I will slice some mangoes into cubes, chop up some small pieces for mango smoothies, and pulp the soft mangoes and freeze those to make these creamy mango smoothies (easily one of our best mango recipes!) now and after the mango season ends.

Best Mango Smoothie Recipe for an Easy Mango Shake That’s Creamy Yet Healthy