Vegan Mango Curry - Holy Cow! Vegan Recipes (2024)

If you've never eaten a mango curry before, you have no idea what you've been missing. This simple summery stew is spicy, sweet, salty and savory, with a velvety smoothness that coats your tongue. A vegan, gluten-free, nut-free and soy-free recipe.

This silky vegan mango curry is a delicious memory of growing up in India's sultry summers.

Each year, when summer rolls around, which is right about now, Indian markets are overwhelmed with a flood of mangoes, which every Indian knows as the "king of fruits". Mountains of mangoes in every shape and size add brilliant orange color to an already colorful mileu and their heady fragrance hangs thick in the air. No matter how much of this delicious fruit you eat, it seems you can never have enough.

But mangoes are not just eaten as a fruit in India. Raw mangoes are pickled or curried and ripe mangoes are often cooked up into sweet -- and more rarely savory-- dishes. It's one such savory dish I have for you today: a mango curry that goes, in my native tongue Konkani, by the name "Ambya Sasam."

My mom would cook up this mango curry several times each summer, and we couldn't wait to devour it. She would always use a certain kind of mango, round, with a softer flesh than your average mango, for this curry. I made it with champagne mangoes, and it was still delicious.

You do want a really sweet mango for this vegan mango curry -- don't get tempted into throwing in a half-ripe fruit. It's the chemistry of the sweet mango with the spices that makes this curry so special.

My mom would put in the whole, peeled mango, seed and all, into the curry, and we would have a great time slurping the flesh off the seed as we ate the curry. I didn't add the seed, but do so if you don't mind getting a little messy-- it's really fun.

I also used coconut milk instead of fresh coconut to add a little more sophistication (and make my life easier).

Here's the recipe for the vegan Mango Curry, and trust me, it's fabulous. Better still, it comes together in no more than 20 minutes which, in my book, makes it an all-round winner. Serve it up with some bitter gourd subzi and rice for a delightful dance of flavors.

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Vegan Mango Curry Recipe