Spring arrived, the sun reappeared, and Costco started carrying mangoes again! We love mangoes. Not the big orange/green types most often pictured as mangoes, but the small golden yellow ones called “Honey Mangoes”. Those are our favorites. We buy a huge box of them at Costco every week when they’re in season and have no problem ingesting all six of them in the week between our Costco visits. Our favorite thing to make with the mangoes is Mango Pudding.
Although loaded with protein, this Mango Pudding tastes like dessert and satisfies Kora’s demanding sweet-tooth. Especially when we are following our competition training diets, this pudding serves as a perfect foil for those sweet cravings. Most often, we make it in the morning and eat it as a sweet snack between our gym workouts and practice. At a mere 270 calories and 25 grams of protein in one serving, you can’t go wrong!
Mango Pudding Ingredients
½ cup unflavored Greek yogurt
½ scoop Gold Standard Whey Protein in Vanilla
½ cubed fresh honey mango
A sprinkle of coconut shavings
How to Make Mango Pudding
Put half a scoop of vanilla protein powder into a bowl or container and add half of your yogurt. Carefully fold the protein powder into the yogurt, adding the rest of your yogurt gradually as the protein powder mixes. Continue to fold and mix until the protein powder and yogurt are completely combined and there are no more lumps. The consistency will be like normal, “non-Greek” yogurt.
Cube your honey mango. If you’re not sure how, check out this instructional video to learn! Layer the cubed mango on top of the yogurt-protein powder mix.
Sprinkle coconut shavings on top.
Yummy Mango Pudding
Voila! There you have it! This recipe takes us literally five minutes in the morning to make, and we make it for the two of us so we use up an entire mango each day. Because of the high protein content of the yogurt and the protein powder, the macros of this recipe are really nicely balanced, at 33% carbohydrates, 31% fat, and 36% protein. We normally eat a pretty low carb diet, around 20-25% carbs, so this little snack is perfect because the rest of our lunch has almost zero carbs. Strangely enough, because Kora doesn’t eat a lot of bread, she actually has a difficult time eating enough carbs throughout the day. Great if your diet happens to be keto, but Kora’s is not. So this recipe has the added benefit of giving her a healthy way of both satisfying her sweet-tooth and getting in her carbs.
If you try this recipe, we would love to see pictures of it or reviews below! We enjoy coming up with interesting recipes that keep our foodie-souls satisfied and yet support our training diets. If you appreciate us sharing these, please let us know! It’s hard to know what you like if we never hear from you!
And don’t forget to check out some of our other dancer-friendly recipes!
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