
Raw mango rice, prepared in south Indian way, a perfect variety rice that can simply made in mango season. Step by step pictures recipe.
It would have been few years since I made Mango rice. Now since mango season has started, I thought I should make it. And bought a couple of raw mangoes when I went to little Indian market. Today I made and had it for lunch at last! This one is very simple recipe and its an easy lunch box idea as well. Just had it with mom’s home made vadams.

The grating part is what it takes time. Otherwise, within 10 minutes the mango rice is ready! I had the recipe in a recipe book by Ramani Chandran called “Rani samayal.” This recipe is part of my lunch menu 55:
Easy south Indian lunch idea
Mango rice recipe, Mangai sadam
Ingredients
- Raw mango – 1
- Turmeric – 1/8 tsp
- Salt As needed
- Rice 1 cup un cooked
TO TEMPER
- Sesame oil – 2 tbsp
- Mustard – 1/2 tsp
- Urad dal – 1 tsp
- Chana dal – 2 tsp
- Peanuts – 2 tbsp
- Asafoetida –1/8 tsp
- Red Chillies – 3
- Green Chillies – 4 Skip and use red chilli more
- Curry leaves – 1 sprig
Instructions
- Cook rice with 2 cups water for 3-4 whistles, cool down and separate the grains. Peel the mango and grate it finely. Heat pan with oil and temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table in order.1-grate-season
- Add turmeric powder,grated mango and mix.2-mix
- Fry for 2 minutes in medium flame. Lastly add salt and mix well.3-add-salt
- Mix with the cooled rice and serve with papad.4-mix-with-rice
Video
Notes
- I used both red chilli and green chilli for flavour. You can use any one too.
- Depending on the variety of rice you use, the water ratio varies. Which ever you use, cook with lesser water to get separate grains after cooking.
Raw mango rice method
- Cook rice with 2 cups water for 4 whistles, cool down by spreading on a broad plate/ vessel with a tsp of sesame oil, little salt and separate the grains.
- Peel the mango with a peeler (with ridges means its easy to peel) and grate it finely. Heat pan with oil and temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table in order.
- Add turmeric powder, grated mango and mix.
- Fry for 2 minutes in medium flame. Lastly add salt and mix well.
- Mix with the cooled rice and serve with papad.
The rice is so flavourful and goes well with any papad/ vadaams or simple poriyals !

Love this seasonal tangy dish !
Yumm… Looks so delicious!!!
Same pinch for posting mango rice..I love this version too..:)
My hubby loves this a lot.Even my mom use to prepare in the same method.
Love this tangy dish very much
Wow that was really yummy n tangy ones… Nice to have it with vadavams
yummy yummy 🙂 love it..
me too love this tangy rice.. good color..
Yummy n tangy rice, my huuby's fav… We also used to prepare in same method, well done Raji…
Mine is different from this. Will try this version. Aunty had told abt the recipes in this book, am searching to buy this 🙂
wonderful recipe
nice tangy rice…
Love this tangy rice…I made a slightly different version from the Cookbook, cooking with Pedhatha
saw another mango rice dish at Prathy's place 🙂 This rice is very much in demand this season. Tempting…
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
We too make it in the same way . Simple and tangy rice and it was a nice shopping experience in little india for the first time with you
delicious rice raji.ongoing event : http://easy2cookrecipes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/fruit-of-month-grapes-event_02.html
I never tried making this..should try soon ..looks yum
mango rice looks yummy and i too make the same way !!!!!
Tongue tickling rice,makes me drool..
love this rice…u made it so nicely…yummy
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I too do this the same way. Yum and tangy rice.
beautiful! love this tangy spicy rice!!
Looking at the pictorial makes my mouth water:-)
Lovely clicks as always Raks!
Tangy and spicy rice-perfect lunch!
Delicious and tangy rice…looks yummy.Nice clicks as always.
i made this last weekend too, then i saw DK had posted it on monday and now you 🙂
It's been a while since I made this too… looks so good.
wow. mouthwatering rice recipe. love it
My hubby just returned from India with a bounty of mangoes–green and ripe ones as well. I should try this!
We do it a similar way.. love it absolutely 🙂
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Nice tangy rice !! love this anytime !!
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super tangy n yummy rice…my fav too…looks so inviting!! beautiful clicks as always!
this is exactly how I make it most of the time. Nice presentation as always!
Tangy and flavourful rice….my fav. Looks very tempting.
Quite new to me, love such tangy variations…
Tangy rice and lovely color.
Vardhini
CooksJoy
Looks so yumm!! Wonderful tangy rice and sure would have tasted good too.
wow delicious preparation,still have mangoes will make this…yummy version:)
wow ! This is a perfect and cool recipe for summer .Will try this recipe soon and i will post this recipe on my blog too.
Very nice and simple. But what I made sometime ago was tooooo tangy!
Perfect RECIPE for this season..very delicious and tangy rice
wow..very yummy rice..should try soon
cool and yummy recipe… perfect at anytime for me… but awesome for summer!
Tangy and yummy rice!
yummy and flavourful rice
yummy n tangy rice……
Perfect lunch idea. Mouthwatering recipe!
awesome.. awesome.. delicious food.. nice photo shots..
Rice looks so nice.. perfect lunch box recipe
My fav. looks delicious and superb clicks.
All time fav rice..way too tempting 🙂 Lovely pics Raks 🙂
Love mango rice and that look super delicious!
mouth watering! love tangy mango rice
I love this rice, a nice alternative to the lemon and tamarind rice..
lovely colour, miss all those 'ootu maanga' that we get in chennai this month 🙂
Mango rice seems to be the flavor of the season!!! Yay!! 🙂 i love your step by step pictures too!
One of my fav lunch box recipe…can be made in jiffy if u have cooked and cooled rice….love the color…looks yum…
wow i use to add ginger garlic paste for getting masala favour 🙂
I made this last week along with Rhengan Rhevya from Nags cookingandme.com. The combo worked very well. Thank you 🙂
hi raks really its mouth watering recipe.. with full of enthu i have started to do with frozen mango.. but it turned disaster. can u guide me how can we handle with frozen mango's. it was terrible to grate the frozen mango. i use to get only fro-zed one in my area (US)
looks yummy. i am going to make this today
wow
A Small Tip : Adding small amount of Vendhaya Podi(but b careful, wen we add t excess it ll produce bitter taste) ll make dis dish more flavored ….
Superb idea. Ur lunch box ideas r too gud…the combinations gv us gud ideas..v nicely presented thnx mini
I've never even heard of mango rice, but I'm so excited to try these this summer! 🙂
I wonder these would taste so good with one of those masala gravies…like the butter chicken gravy but without chicken in it because you're a vegetarian 🙂