Quick and Easy Mango Bellini Recipe

Mango Bellini

Feel the sun on your face and welcome spring in all her glory. Start with this quick and easy mango bellini.

Spring has sprung! Or if it hasn’t quite bloomed in your neck of the woods, you can at least fake it and celebrate with an exotic dinner party to celebrate India’s colorful Holi Festival on March 21^st.

Recipe serves four but is easily doubled…or tripled.

Ingredients:

1 mango, peeled and flesh chopped fine or pureed (or use bottled mango puree)
1 bottle of Prosecco, chilled
1 lime, cut into 4 wedges

Directions:

Spoon one tablespoon of mango puree into a champagne glass. Squeeze in juice from a lime wedge. Gently pour in the Prosecco to fill the glass, and stir just before serving.

By Lori Ross, Southern Boating February 2019

More Indian food-inspo:

Kachumber Salad

Shrimp Vindaloo

Watermelon Martini

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Chilling time: 20 minutes for the glasses
Serves: 6

12 oz. watermelon juice (made from approx. half a seeded watermelon)*
¼ c. sugar
¼ c. kosher salt
5 oz. premium vodka
4 oz. melon or orange liqueur
2 oz. lime juice
Lime wedges
1 c. fresh mint leaves
Ice

Chill martini glasses for 20 minutes before starting recipe. Combine sugar and salt on a plate. Rub rim with lime wedges and dip in sugar mix. Combine half the watermelon juice, vodka and lime juice in a cocktail shaker with several sprigs of mint. Add ice and shake well. Strain into chilled glasses. Repeat with remaining ingredients.

*To make fresh watermelon juice blend watermelon in a food processor or blender until smooth, and strain into a pitcher. Alternatively, muddle the watermelon in batches in a small pitcher and strain.

By Carrie Hanna, Southern Boating Magazine, August 2015