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- Hi, I'm Jerry James Stone, and you're watching
Cooking Stoned.
Today's recipe, I'm going to make a
mango lassi popsicle.
The reason for this is because, well,
I love mango lassis.
Well, one, I love mangoes.
Two, I love mango lassis.
And three, I love, love, love, love, southern Indian food,
and I can't help myself but get a mango lassi or three
when I go out for Indian food.
And so I really wanted to create that,
but I didn't just want to create
a mango lassi, because I would, well,
I would drink like buckets of them.
So I decided to make a popsicle to
hopefully slow myself down.
So this mango lassi popsicle is
just like a traditional lassi.
It's sort of a little bit different,
it's not just a plain mango lassi popsicle, though.
I kind of swirl it in with some regular yogurt,
so it kind of has a really nice texture and look to it.
I think you're really going to enjoy it.
I know I will.
So I have my fresh mango puree here.
This is two mangoes that have been cubed.
And if you don't know how to do that
you can just watch my how-to video on doing that.
So these two mangoes have been cubed,
and what I'm going to do now is
I'm going to add a half cup of Greek yogurt.
I'm going to add that to the mix.
And this is just sort of to create that lassi texture
and flavor that you're used to.
It has that sort of sweet/bitter taste to it,
which is just lovely, I love mango lassis.
So we're going to add a half cup of Greek yogurt.
Hopefully don't spill it everywhere.
Just get that extra stuff in there.
Get it all out!
We don't want to waste any of it.
Now I'm just going to whisk this together.
And now, based on the popsicle mold that I have,
this mold holds just a little over
three cups of liquid, total.
So I'm going to add this to a measuring cup
that holds at least two cups,
and I'm going to fill the remaining part of that
measuring cup with simple syrup.
So I'm going to add this, and I want two cups total
of this mango and yogurt mixture,
plus the simple syrup.
Now I'm just going to add this mango and yogurt mixture
to my measuring cup so I know exactly
how much simple syrup to add.
The reason that you kind of have to do it this way
is because you don't know exactly how much fruit
you're going to get out of each mango.
And there's no need for it to be an exact science,
so you just need to fill the rest up with the simple syrup.
So this gave me, let's see here,
I have just a little over a cup.
About a cup and a half here.
So now I'm going to add a half cup of simple syrup.
And I'm just going to go ahead and mix that all together.
And this is pretty much a lassi recipe right here.
So what I'm going to do to sort of make this unique,
and I think also make the popsicles really beautiful,
is I'm going to make a sweetened Greek yogurt mixture too.
So I'm going to swirl this mixture together
with the Greek yogurt mixture.
So you're going to have this kind of lovely,
almost cream-cicle-type popsicle, as far as the texture goes
but it's going to taste like a mango lassi.
It's going to be amazing!
So now we're going to do another half cup of Greek yogurt.
Once again getting as much out of there as you possibly can.
And then we're just going to add
another half cup of the simple syrup.
So that we have a cup total.
And just like the mango mixture, mix that all together.
Now, to thicken this up a little bit, I'm going to put
both these in the refrigerator for just about a half hour,
so they're not so runny.
And then when I mix them in the popsicle mold,
they'll get all nice and marbled.
Now that the mixture is chilled, I'm just going to
fill up the popsicle mold with alternating pours
of the mango and yogurt and sugar mixture,
and this plain yogurt and sugar mixture.
So just go ahead and fill in a little bit at a time.
And you can do different amounts in each one.
The idea here is really just to like kind of
create this lovely marbled effect.
Once again, not spilling it, like I tend to do, everywhere.
Surprised that anything even makes it
into these popsicle molds.
I'm so messy sometimes.
And now I'll just go ahead and add in the yogurt mixture.
Now, you only have a cup of this so you're not going to do
as heavy a pours.
You just want enough to kind of like create this
swirly...
I can't even think of a word to describe it.
You just want it to be pretty.
So, like, that's what I'm doing.
I'm just kind of alternating between the two
to create a texture beyond
just plain orange popsicles.
Not that there's anything wrong with plain orange popsicles.
I just wanted to kind of create that sensation
of getting a mango lassi.
It's just a yogurt and mango drink,
so I'm trying to recreate that.
Now I'll just add in the popsicle sticks.
This mixture is pretty dense, so usually
I use the lid to the mold to hold the sticks in place,
but as you can see that is completely
not required for these popsicles.
Which is great because I find those lids
a little annoying at times.
So just go ahead and put your sticks in there.
You don't want to push them all the way down.
Just enough to, you know, you don't want
the popsicle to fall off the stick,
but you also want to have some grippin' room.
So I don't know why I said "gripping" like that.
But grippin' room. You want that.
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