I love mangoes and today I'm going to show you how to make mangoes
a lot more interesting. I'm going to make hedgehogs, and you're thinking how do you
make mango hedgehogs? All you do is kind of just cut the mangoes and then fold them in and you
make a hedgehog. But I have a little touch that I want to add. So if you want to know if your
mango's ripe or not you're going to squeeze it and if it's quite soft like this one is,
then it's ripe and you're going to give it a smell test and if it smells like a mango, that means
it's a ripe mango. Also what you've got to look for, there's a stone in the middle of the mango
and there's a thin side and there's a fat side here and you don't want to cut the mango like that,
because then you're going to hit the stone. You want to go cut mango like here and here. So you
get these pieces with no stone in them. You might need an adult for this because you do need to use
a sharp knife. So I'm going to get as close as I can to the middle. So we get a fat chunk of mango.
There we go, lovely jubbly. There's a piece of mango. Then we can do the next half put that back there.
There we go, another nice piece of mango. Well what we can do with this bit, I'm just gonna cut some
of this skin off. So this is the bit with the stone and you're probably thinking why would
you eat the stone? But you're not because there's always mango around it and you're just missing out.
So you don't want to miss out. This is my favourite bit of it and this is the bit that chef gets
and just eat around the pit. So now we're going to turn them into hedgehogs.
So we have we don't need to use the sharp knife anymore, but we use a blunt knife
because we don't want to cut through the skin. So we're just going to go like this.
They don't have to be evenly spaced, but I like to do it like this.
Just cutting lines about a centimetre apart. I'm doing mine quite long but theres big ones there and
small ones there. It doesn't really matter, but yeah and now we're gonna do them on the other side
just like this. We're gonna get this and just fold it up, that's the hedgehog and
now we're into the next one. So this is a good thing to get the kids to do
and I am a kid, so personally I like it. So now I'm going to pop it open.
I'm going to eat them. I've got mine and i've got my little brother Rivers, and
well you could just eat it like this. So now I'm going to do my secret touch.
There's a pestle and mortar here and we've got some mint in it and also got some sugar
and this is like a little sprinkling that you can add to the um the mango to make it a lot
more delicious. So what you're going to do, you add two tablespoons of sugar. You don't need all of the
sugar and all of this mint, but you can just save this for later and then you can just put these
leaves into it. The people that have a sweet tooth my family are probably like River, me, Mum and Poppy,
maybe Daisy, I'm not too sure. Just gonna add this last one.
So now we get our pestle and mortar hammer and we're going to bash it.
So did you know pestle and mortar was actually one of the first kitchen gadgets in the world
and Gennaro actually has a collection of them. So a strange thing to collect but yeah. I collect star
wars figures. Me and my dad collect them. So you bash it like this and then you muddle it like this.
Shake it, just like rub it. You know it's ready when it's turned into a sprinkling consistency, like
that and before we add this onto our mango, we're just going to add a few drizzles of lime on top.
So I'm just going to roll this to get more of the lime juice out when you squeeze it.
Get this like that, put that on one side and we just squeeze this on our mango.
So you squeeze the lime on the mango, because it brings out a lot more flavour
and now we can just put our mangoes on the plate.
We're gonna sprinkle some on mine just like that, from a height as Dad
says. Apparently it's the rules, you must do it. Then we're gonna do some for River.
River's gonna be like "I don't want it because it's green". He's gonna try it and be like "Oh it's so sweet".
There we go. So there's only one thing left to do and it's to eat it, i'm going to eat mine.
Mango but it's just so much better with the lime and all of the the mint and everything.
Now I'm going to give this one to River, unless I eat it before he gets it.