wake up, its mango season!!!!

strawberry mango sticky rice + some exciting developments

I’m not a fruit dessert type of person. Like berry tarts, apple pie, strawberry cheesecake, sorbet etc. I always tend to go for the more chocolatey and nutty desserts - mousses, cookies, creamy pastries, brownies.

BUT the exception lies with mango sticky rice. If it’s on the menu, it’s on my plate. Every now and then I forget it exists and then mango season rolls around and I’m just like…wow.

But the make or break factor with mango sticky rice lies within the mango. When I went to Thailand a few years back, I tried my first “real” mango sticky rice and it trAnSceNdEd me to a different planet. THE MANGO is unlike anything else, anywhere else. And too bad we’re not in Thailand but luckily, we are in the height of Alphonso mango season.

They’re best when the skin is fully yellow/orange with no green spots. The inside should be bright orange. They’re soo silky, unbelievably juicy, sweet and are simply just the best. Even this random blog I found says so.

And when something is this good, I don’t feel the need to get creative but mango + strawberry? I sort of had to try it and it slayed. So I was allowed to publish this recipe.