Mango and Coconut Pudding

A Taste of Yellow is a blogging event hosted by Winos and Foodies and is dedicated to LIVESTRONG Day. LIVESTRONG Day is the Lance Armstrong Foundation’s (LAF) grassroots advocacy initiative to unify people affected by cancer and to raise awareness about cancer survivorship issues on a national level and in local communities across the country. LIVESTRONG Day 2007 will occur on Wednesday, May 16.

The A Taste of Yellow event has been approved by the Lance Armstrong Foundation as an official LIVESTRONG Day event . Winos and Foodies is organizing the event to raise awareness of cancer. However if you wish to make a donation you can do so by visiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation donation page or click here.

All bloggers wanting to participate in the blog event A TASTE OF YELLOW can do so by making a dish containing some type of yellow food. This can be anything you like as long it features a yellow food. Some ideas to get you started are lemon, banana, saffron, corn, eggs, cheese.

On the 16th May, to coincide with LIVESTRONG Day 2007, Winos and Foodies will post a round up of all the entries. Please make and post your entries using any yellow coloured food and send them to atasteofyellowATgmailDOTcom before the 7th May. This recipe is adapted from Australian Good Taste magazine.

Serves 6
3 medium size mango’s (peeled and chopped, can also use frozen mango’s)
250ml (1 cup) mango nectar
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
125ml (1/2 cup) coconut milk
125ml (1/2 cup) pouring cream (I use half and half)
140g (2/3 cup) caster sugar
1 (10g) packet gelatine powder

Place mango, nectar and lemon juice in the bowl of a food processor and process until smooth. Place coconut milk, cream and sugar in a saucepan. Bring to a simmer over medium heat. Cook, stirring for 5 minutes or until the sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat. Sprinkle with gelatine and whisk with a fork until gelatine dissolves. Combine the mango mixture and cream mixture until well blended.

Place combined cream and mango mixture among 6 (200ml capacity) serving dishes. Set aside for 10 minutes to cool, cover and then place in fridge for 6 hours or until set.

The Culinary Chase’s Note: The word cancer puts fear in everyone who hears it. My mother and sister had cancer and are living proof that cancer can be beaten just as in Lance Armstrong’s case and many, many others.