Mango slices cooked in coconut milk

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

Lawar Mangga Muda

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

Asia
Indonesia
Side dish
South East Asia
Vegan
Gluten-free

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,