coconut tapioca pudding with mango
Look, I know it’s prime resolution time. I realize that outside the 10 percent of you who have understandably succumbed to the explicit demands of the polar vortex with , the remaining 90 percent of you out there are swearing off carbs, gluten, fat, sugar, things that your grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food or things that even a mother, while sweating off the holiday’s demons on stationary bikes. (Although I’m sure no matter how bad you may think things got over the holidays, surely none of children announced at preschool’s circle time that his mommy was going to have a baby, which was news to you? Which led to you having to make an awkward joke about too many cookies in December? Nope, surely none of your would do a thing like that. Not unless they wanted to go to boarding preschool next year, right?)
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 7 of 9 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 7 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Coconut | 1/2 cup shredded (40g) | 283 |
| Mango | 1 cup diced (165g) | 99 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Lime | juice of 1 lime (44ml) | 11 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Seed | not in our table | 0 |
| Bean | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup small pearl tapioca (I used
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- 2 1/2 cups coconut milk (light or full-fat; a 13.5-ounce can will contain 1 3/4 cups)
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon table salt or a heaped 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract or the seeds from a 1-inch segment of vanilla bean
- 1 very ripe mango, peeled, pitted and roughly chopped
- 2 teaspoons granulated sugar (optional; I used it but would skip it next time)
- A squeeze or two of fresh lime juice
- Whipped coconut cream
- 1/2 cup toasted coconut flakes
- Few gratings of lime zest