After making butter loaded bakes all these days, I really wanted a change. So here is a simpler recipe with very few ingredients and the main point is that it also doesn’t need any experience in baking. It is too simple and absolutely delicious. I haven’t come across fruit leathers in my place but have seen so many posts on it. And I was so curious about how it would taste and how it would feel. I thought of making mango leather but at the time of preparation, it was not season. But we got raw mango in abundance. So I tried a tangy version of the leather with raw mangoes and I was so happy. Some times we really crave for something tangy and I was going through that phase when I made these. So it became my favourite snack. If you love raw mangoes, then you will surely love this concentrated version of raw mango.
As it was my first attempt at making leather, I was confused at some steps but my experience will be a good lesson for you who are going to try this at home. I wanted to add just a few drops of food colour but when I was titling my food colour bottle, way too much colour spilled inside and so my mango leather is so green. You can reduce the food colour to a few drops. The leather is baked at minimum temperature for 4-5 hours until all the liquid in the mixture evaporates. It is close to drying it out in the sun. In oven there will be hot spots and those places tend to dry faster than the remaining areas and will become very crisp. But there is no need to worry. Once we let it sit overnight to cool inside oven all those areas soften. I didn’t know that and I just discarded them as they were too crispy. But the next day they were soft and only then I realized that I should have waited. So be patient while making this and you will be rewarded with a delicious tangy, rubbery raw mango leather.
Ingredients:
Raw Mango-3 medium sized
Water-1/2 cup
Sugar-1/2 cup
Green Food Colour-a few drops
Procedure:
Wash and wipe mangoes.
Cut them and discard the seed.
Chop them and grind to a fine paste with 1/2 cup of water.
Pour it into a sieve and collect the pulp. Discard the coarse pulp.
Now put it on stove and add food colour and sugar.
Let it boil and reduce to a thick spreadable mixture.
Line and grease a 9″ * 13″ tray and pour the mango mix on the tray.
With a spoon spread it out evenly.
Set the temperature to the lowest setting in oven.
Place the tray in the middle rack and let it bake for 4 hours.
Remove from the oven and peel away the baking paper.
Flip the mango leather on to another greased paper. There would be some soft spots left which might be sticky.
If there are such spots, then return it back to oven and let it completely dry. It should no stick to your fingers.
Now switch off oven and allow the leather to cool completely. I just left it overnight.
The next day, Cut the leather into stripes along with the paper, roll them up and store.
I left two rolls for more than 3 weeks and they were good as the fresh ones.
So store in airtight jar and enjoy as you go!!
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Raw Mango Leather
Ingredients
Ingredients
- Raw Mango-3 medium sized
- Water-1/2 cup
- Sugar-1/2 cup
- Green Food Colour-a few drops
Instructions
Procedure
- Wash and wipe mangoes.
- Cut them and discard the seed.
- Chop them and grind to a fine paste with 1/2 cup of water.
- Pour it into a sieve and collect the pulp. Discard the coarse pulp.
- Now put it on stove and add food colour and sugar.
- Let it boil and reduce to a thick spreadable mixture.
- Line and grease a 9" * 13" tray and pour the mango mix on the tray.
- With a spoon spread it out evenly.
- Set the temperature to the lowest setting in oven.
- Place the tray in the middle rack and let it bake for 4 hours.
- Remove from the oven and peel away the baking paper.
- Flip the mango leather on to another greased paper. There would be some soft spots left which might be sticky.
- If there are such spots, then return it back to oven and let it completely dry. It should no stick to your fingers.
- Now switch off oven and allow the leather to cool completely. I just left it overnight.
- The next day, Cut the leather into 1" stripes along with the paper, roll them up and store.
- I left two rolls for more than 3 weeks and they were good as the fresh ones.
- So store in airtight jar and enjoy as you go!!
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Wish u pack me some for me.. Just a catchy fruit leather..
Lovely recipe reminds of our childhood days, when used to eat sundried aam papad made by mom.
Didn’t think making fruit leather at home is this easy. Thanks for the step by step pictures and sharing your experiences. Will try it out for my kids.
Though you added more color, leather looks good and love the way your rolled it up. Never tasted raw mango leather. Nice recipe
I thought I left a comment in this Gayathri, saw it in Fb and had to check..:)..you have so much patience in all the things you do, is simply amazing!..my boys love this!
My daughter’s favorite snack in grade school. Making it tangy instead of sweet is a nice idea.
another stunning recipe!!! can we do this with any fruit / veg???
i will bookmark this!!
Sowmya, you can do it with any fruit that has lots of pulp..
Lovely leather wraps. I should have used the wax paper too. Great
I wanted to try fruit leathers but gave up as I didn’t have the patience to see them getting baked for hours.Your green mango leather looks stunning.
Stunning color. I tried the mango fruit leather. The raw mango leather sounds very yumm too.
Wow! The Leather looks absolutely stunning.. Truly it has been on my to do list but some how haven’t got down to work.. This post is motivating me to go ahead.
what a mess free snack!! I made this with mixed berries and not even thought of raw mangoes.. Love to try it with raw mangoes!!
With your patience its possibel Gayathri. I just cannot do this. Pack some for me dear.;D
What a lovely idea to use raw mango! looks amazing.