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Date: 25 May 2025

How to make chocolate dumplings in mango sauce: exotic recipe

chocolate dumplings in mango sauce

chocolate dumplings in mango sauce

How to make chocolate dumplings in mango sauce: exotic recipe



Ready to sneak this onto your dessert menu under a name like "Tropics Lost in Vienna"?

Ingredients

  • 🔸 For the dough:


• 200 g (1 ½ cups) all-purpose flour
  • • 1 egg
  • • 3 tbsp water
  • • Pinch of salt


🔸 For the filling:

  • • 70 g (2.5 oz) dark chocolate
  • • 3 tbsp heavy cream
  • • 1 tsp cocoa powder (optional)
  • • 1 tsp sugar (if chocolate is too bitter)


🔸 For the mango sauce:

  • • 1 ripe mango (or 150 g mango puree)
  • • 100 ml (just under ½ cup) heavy cream
  • • 1-2 tsp honey
  • • 1 tsp lime or lemon juice
  • • Pinch of salt


🔪 Instructions

  • ➡Make the dough: Mix flour, egg, water, and salt into a soft dough. Knead, wrap, and rest for 30 minutes.
  • ➡Prepare the filling: Melt chocolate with cream over a water bath. Stir in sugar and cocoa if using. Let cool until thick.
  • ➡Shape the dumplings: Roll out dough, cut into circles, fill with chocolate, and seal. Freeze for 10 minutes to firm up.
  • ➡Cook: Boil in lightly salted water. Once they float, cook 2–3 minutes more. Lift out gently.
  • ➡Make the mango sauce: Blend mango, then stir in cream, honey, citrus juice, and salt. Warm gently without boiling.
  • ➡Serve: Arrange dumplings, spoon over sauce, and garnish with mint or lime zest if desired.


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Date: 25 Feb 2021

Container mango - Condo varieties

Q: What are the good varieties of mango trees available for container grow? Can you please share the details?

A: There are some great varieties of Mango selected specifically for container culture, they even have a nick-name - "condo mangoes". They have compact growth habit and respond well to pruning to keep them in small size. Here are a few of our favorites that we currently have in stock:
Glenn
Ice Cream
Cotton Candy
Mallika
Manilita
Pram Kai Mai
Mun Kun Si
Maha Chinook
You can see more condo mangoes on this page.

Related articles:

How to grow a Dwarf Mango tree
Choosing the right Mango for your garden
10 secrets of successful Container Mango growing on a balcony.
Condo Mango

Date: 17 Nov 2025

Pram Kai Mai: a sweeter twist on Nam Doc Mai with a story - Mango Rainbow

Pram Kai Mai Mango crop in a basket

Pram Kai Mai Mango crop in a basket

Pram Kai Mai Mango

Pram Kai Mai Mango

🥭 Pram Kai Mai: a sweeter twist on Nam Doc Mai with a story - Mango Rainbow🌈
  • 🟡Why mango collectors chase after Pram Kai Mai?
  • Pram Kai Mai is like Nam Doc Mai’s cooler cousin - with even better flavor. This Thai mango can be eaten green when it’s sweet and crispy, or fully ripe when it turns golden and silky. No fiber, just smooth, juicy flesh and a tropical aroma that hits you as soon as you slice it. It’s semi-dwarf, great for pots, and some trees even fruit more than once a year. Rare, compact, and loaded with flavor - this one’s a collector’s dream.
  • 🟡Pram Kai Mai is a Thai dessert mango known for its gentle sweetness and smooth, almost fiberless flesh. The name appears in several spellings - Pram Kai Mai, Pram Kai Mea, Pram Kai Mia, Prom Ki Mia, and even Brahm Kai Meu - all referring to the same variety.
  • 🟡If we break down the original Thai name พร้ามกายเมีย (Brahm/Pram/Prom Kai Mea/Mai/Mia) literally: Brahm / Pram / Prom relates to "noble, elevated, precious".

กาย - Kai means body
เมีย - Mia means wife
But no one in Thailand interprets this name word-for-word.
In mango names, this construction works as a cultural compliment, a gentle metaphor. The meaning is closer to:
"A mango so good you would save it for the one you love most."
or "A fruit worthy of a beloved wife".
Similar to how in other languages we may call something "royal", "special", or "meant for someone dear", this name is simply expressing admiration.

And the fruit truly matches that feeling. It is fragrant and sweet, with soft tender flesh. It can be enjoyed while still crisp and green, when its flavor is clean and refreshing, or fully ripe, when it becomes rich and smooth, almost melting on the tongue.

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Date: 15 Oct 2020

Healthy Plants. Q&A from Mr Booster: Fertilizing Mango trees in Winter

Q: I'm living in Maryland growing zone 7A and would like some info on when to fertilize my potted mango trees. I ordered your Sunshine Mango Tango 2-2-4. All your mango trees are in pots.

A: You can start using this fertilizer right away, any time of the year, and every time you water your plants.
Sunshine Mango Tango, as well as other Sunshine boosters, is an amino-acid based liquid fertilizer that is scientifically developed for daily plant needs in all necessary nutrients. This means, you may use this fertilizer with every watering, including winter period.
Traditional fertilizers (both granulated and soluble, EDTA-chelated) can only be used during hot months while plants grow actively, and must be limited or not used at all during cooler months, to avoid nutrient lock up in soil (which basically means "building up unused elements"). With Liquid Sunshine Boosters, it is safe to add them every time you water your tree.
During cooler weather and when plant metabolism slows down, a tree will consume less water (as well as food), and you will automatically reduce watering, to keep over-wintering plants on a dry side. This means, less fertilizer too. This allows you to control elements intake naturally, like you control water amount just as much as the plant needs.

Date: 21 May 2019

Perfecting a Mango Tree

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Q: I recently purchased a Mangifera indica - Coconut Cream Mango from you and would like to know if it is possible to keep this in a large pot rather than putting it in the ground. If so, I have a few questions:
1. How large would you expect this variety to get?
2. What are the ideal growing conditions? Full sun, partial sun, etc...?
3. What is the ideal soil?
4. Any specific watering directions for ideal growth?

A: Coconut Cream mango tree has a moderate growth. We've planted one in our garden 4 years ago and it is still under 10 ft tall. This variety should be well suitable for container culture.
1. Keep the branches trimmed after fruiting is over. Mango trees can be grown in 15 to 25 gal containers and can be trimmed under 7-8 ft high.
2. All mango trees need full sun, the more sun the better.
3. Mango needs very well draining soil, ideally with lots of bark and perlite. We recommend our professional soilless mix or a similar formula.
4. Mango trees hate wet feet, and prefer to stay on a dry side: make sure soil in a pot doesn't stay wet; allow it to dry a little between the waterings.
Remember to apply Mango Food fertilizer during warm season for vigorous growth and heavy crop!