Recipes using unripe mangoes

These recipes were inspired after eating sweet radish cubes served before the main meal at a Korean Restaurant. The main ingredient is mango at a stage in its ripening when it's neither sweet nor unripe and sour. Its colour is light green and the flesh would yield slightly to force.

1) A Salad consisting of mango, cucumber, mint and kala namak or black salt. The mango and cucumber can be cut into small cubes. The mango provides the matrix of the taste with cucumber serving as a secondary filler. The mint adds to the freshness and salt makes for a chatpata beginning.

2) The mango is cut into eight pieces and polka dotted with milk chocolate on the darker side. To make the polka dots, one would have to melt the chocolate and pour it through a sieve which has small circular holes.

These recipes may serve as refreshing appetizers before the main course.