Name: Mango slices cooked in coconut milk (Lawar Mangga Muda)
Yield: to serve four
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: 2 large unripe mangoes; a pinch of ground white pepper; 3 shallots, sliced finely; 1 cup thick santen (coconut milk); salt

Preparation info

to serve
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

Literally, ‘sliced young mangoes’. Surprisingly, this fruit makes a delicious vegetable dish cooked in santen or, when cold, a salad. Like most dishes from Alor, it uses no garlic. Try it with unripe apples—they make a good substitute.

Ingredients

2 large unripe mangoes
3 shallots, sliced finely
1 cup thick santen (coco

Method

Make ready a saucepan half-filled with cold water with 1 teaspoon of salt. Peel the mangoes and slice them thinly. Put them into the salted water and keep them there while you slowly boil the santen and shallots for about 2 to 3 minutes, stirring all the time. Add salt and pepper. Drain the mangoes,