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Oven Dried Mangos

A dried mango preparation made by simmering mango slices in a lime-sugar syrup and oven-drying until leathery.

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Why it works: Lime and mango match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 506 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Oven Dried Mangos

Oven130°F
Time8 hours

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Mix water, lime juice and sugar.

  2. Heat to boiling.

Soak and dry

  1. Add mango slices to syrup and let stand for 20 minutes.

  2. Drain fruit and spread in single layer on a rack in the oven at 130°F for 8 hours or until mangos are leathery, but pliable.

Store

  1. Pack in airtight containers.

  2. Refrigerate or freeze for longer storage.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

159Calories
2 gProtein
1 gFat
41 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Mango1 cup diced (165g)99
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lime + mangotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Sugar + mangotop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together561 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Sugar + limetop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,332 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, in the syrup, helps keep it soft and moist as it dries.
Mangos
Provide the fruit that dries into a chewy, leathery texture.
Lime juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour and helps keep the mango's colour bright.

The step that matters

Drying until leathery but pliable. Drying too briefly leaves the fruit wet and prone to spoiling, while drying too long makes it brittle. Stopping when it is leathery yet pliable gives a chewy texture that stores well.

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, mango):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pineapplefits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, mango. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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