Mango Shots

Mango is one of my favorite summer fruits. Last night we went to cafe coffee day and had the mango shots. Gosh I fell in love with them and tried to make them. That is when I realized  why not make them the way I made the strawberry shots.
Its pretty much exactly the same method. I just replaced the strawberries with mangoes.

Ingredients:

Marie Biscuits – 4

Fresh mango – ½ cup chopped

Butter – 3 tsp (melted)

Thick curd – ½ cup

Fresh cream – ½ cup

Sugar – 4 tbsp (add more/less according to the sourness of the mangoes)

China grass – ½ tbsp (i used strawberry flavored coz I had left over from the strawberry shots I made earlier but you can use the plain version too)

Water – 2 tbsp

Note: In case you don’t find thick curd, take 1.5 cups of the normal curd, put it in a muslin cloth and hang it somewhere for an hour so that all the water drips off and you are left with ½ cup of thick curd.

Method:

Crush biscuits roughly and powder to a semi fine mixture. Then add melted butter to the powdered biscuits and mix well so that the mixture becomes moist. Fill this up as a base layer in your dessert bowl/glass and press firmly with the back of a spoon or fingertips. Leave this in the refrigerator while the other layers are getting ready.

Chop mangoes roughly and puree it with sugar. Set aside. In a mixing bowl, add curd and fresh cream, mix until they combine well.

Add strawberry puree (reserve 1/4 cup for later) to the above mixture and mix well. At this point check for sweetness and adjust according to your preference. If adding sugar, beat well until sugar is dissolved completely. Set aside. In a small heat resistant cup, add the china grass and water. Boil water in a pan and place the cup in the boiling water. Allow it to boil until you see a clear liquid when the china grass is dissolved completely.

Now add the china grass water mixture to the curd-cream-puree mixture, give a quick stir. Fill it up immediately in your dessert bowl/glass as a second layer reserving little space at the top. Chill it for 4-5 hrs or even overnight for best results. Then add the remaining strawberry puree as a third layer and serve chilled.

Just like the strawberry shots this pic too isn't pretty :( Will upload a pretty pic later :)