Cutting a Mango (Island Style)

Cutting a mango can be a messy adventure. When I was going to grad school in Hawaii, one of my cousins taught me how to cut a mango "island style". 

Mangos have a oblique shaped stone running through the center of them. Cut the mango around this stone. 


This leaves you with 2 mango halves and a stone surrounded with the mango fruit. 





































Take one of those halves. Take a sharp pairing knife and cut deeply into the flesh of the mango, scoring it horizontally and vertically. Then, push the mango from the skin, "popping" it inside out. 






































The mango should come off the skin, nicely diced. Repeat with the other half. 

Take the remainder of the mango (the stone surrounded in flesh) and make an incision into the mango, letting the knife follow the contours of the stone. The flesh should "roll off" the mango, in a strip. 


Make several incisions in the strip, cutting just to where the skin of the mango is. 


Now, this is the tricky part. Insert the knife into one of those cut groves and with the blade of your knife, run the knife through the strip. The mango should come off into dice. 

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