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Mangoes are really good for the summer season. Its sweet taste makes you feel like you've just stepped out from the pool with coconut trees all over the place and the sun blazing hot above the clouds. It creates that feeling of summer invading the whole country singlehandedly and don’t deny it, it feels great, really, really great!

One good thing (or it can be a downside) about mangoes is that this fruit isn’t always around, but when they are in season, you get that exquisite craving that has been building inside you for many seasons and the moment you taste it, you’re literally on Cloud 9! So, if you’re at a situation wherein baskets of mangoes are literally bombarded right into your home by your friends, parents, or in-laws during summer, here are some videos on various delicious mango preparations you can choose from.  

Mango Sorbet

Laura Vitale, my favorite YouTube Italian chef who prepares EVERYTHING has once more waved her magic wand and managed to produce this deliciously enticing, yet absolutely easy mango sorbet for the upcoming summer season. If you taste her creamy, smooth mango sorbet, you’ve probably never expected something this divinely wonderful to be just as easy as making pancakes. Believe me, I’m not exaggerating my analogy because for all I know, Laura can make any recipe easy and more simple and can still produce it with heavenly taste.

You can see in this video that Laura is squeezing one lemon juice to her mangoes right before she pureed them, this adds that little bit of brightness to the sorbet, it puts a tinge of tangy flavor to the mangoes. She also specifically said that when preparing any food, you should put a dash of salt because it always brings out the flavor in everything you prepare.  Removing the fibers through sifting right before chilling is probably the most genius thing in this recipe because it makes the end product really creamy, you couldn’t even tell that there are no traces of cream or any dairy product in this sorbet! Just simply WOW. 

Mango Smoothie

Still from Laura Vitale’s recipe, this mango smoothie is quick, easy, healthy, and tasty! What more could you ask for? Laura ingeniously adds half a slice of ripe banana, not to add some banana flavor to the smoothie, but to incorporate that really sweet taste from bananas, thus making it some sort of an alternate in using sugar. She adds a small amount of vanilla yogurt making it a mind-blowing fusion of mango and vanilla flavors! Laura’s mango smoothie is really, really thick, chilly, and creamy which makes it a perfect beverage during a hot summer afternoon picnic with family or friends.