To make aamras, blend ripe Alphonso pulp smooth with cold water or milk, add cardamom and dry ginger, chill for 30 minutes and serve with hot puri. Good Alphonso needs no sugar. Four mangoes serve four people, and pulp tins work all year.
What aamras is
Aamras is smooth ripe mango pulp, served chilled or at room temperature as a dessert or as a side with a meal. The name joins aam, mango, and ras, juice or essence. In Gujarati it is written કેરીનો રસ, and in Marathi you will hear aamras puri when it is served with deep-fried bread. Families in Maharashtra and Gujarat both make it, and both treat it as a festival food and an everyday summer dish.
Aamras is not the same as a mango shake. A shake is thinned with milk and often sweetened and iced. Aamras is mostly pulp, thick enough to eat with a spoon or scoop with a puri. Alphonso suits it because the pulp is described as rich, creamy and non-fibrous, so nothing needs straining.
Aamras recipe with fresh Alphonso mangoes
Serves: 4. Prep time: 15 minutes. Chilling time: 30 minutes.
Ingredients
- 4 ripe Alphonso mangoes, or one 850 g tin of Alphonso mango pulp
- 2 to 3 tablespoons cold water or cold milk, optional
- 1 pinch cardamom powder
- 1 pinch dry ginger powder (soonth)
- Sugar, only if the mangoes are under-ripe
Method
- Wash the mangoes and pat them dry. Rest them at room temperature until the skin turns golden-yellow and the fruit gives slightly to gentle pressure.
- Squeeze the mangoes gently all over with both hands to loosen the pulp inside.
- Cut off the tip and squeeze the pulp into a bowl, or peel the fruit and cube the flesh.
- Blend smooth with a hand blender or mixer. Add cold water or milk one tablespoon at a time until the aamras is pourable.
- Add the cardamom and dry ginger and mix well.
- Taste, and add sugar only if needed. Ripe Alphonso rarely needs any.
- Chill for 30 minutes and serve with hot puri, or on its own as a dessert.
The tip that matters most is to wait for the mango. Aamras made from fruit that is not fully ripe tastes thin and needs sugar, and no amount of blending fixes that. A ripe Alphonso has a sweet smell, strongest near the stalk, and gives slightly when pressed.
Aamras with Alphonso mango pulp
Open a tin of Alphonso mango pulp and pour it into a bowl. Add the cardamom and a pinch of dry ginger. Thin it with cold water only if you want a looser texture, then stir and chill. The method takes a few minutes, and it works in the months when fresh Alphonso is not sold.
Our Alphonso Mango Pulp Tin comes in 850 g and 3.1 kg tins, from Rs 590. APEDA lists mango pulp as sterilised and packed in aseptic bags or hermetically sealed cans. If you want to know how pulp differs from puree, read the difference between puree and pulp. To make pulp from fresh fruit, see how to make mango pulp.
Gujarati and Maharashtrian styles
| Point | Maharashtrian style | Gujarati style |
|---|---|---|
| Mango | Usually Alphonso (Hapus) | Often Kesar, and Alphonso is also used |
| Flavour | Cardamom and dry ginger | Cardamom, sometimes saffron |
| Thinning | A little cold water | Cold milk |
| Served with | Hot puri | Puri or rotli |
These are family habits, not rules. Make it the way your household likes it, and change one thing at a time, such as the spice or the thickness, so you know which change you liked. A pinch more cardamom or a little less water is usually all it takes. If you prefer Kesar, we list Kesar mango as a separate fruit from Alphonso.
What to serve with aamras
Hot puri is the classic partner. Rotli, thepla and a plain dal-rice thali also work, and so does a bowl of plain yogurt rice on a hot afternoon. For a dessert plate, a handful of roasted cashews adds crunch against the smooth pulp. We sell W180 cashew nuts and masala cashew nuts, and the second one suits people who like a spicy bite beside something sweet.
Aamras calories and nutrition
Calories depend on how much pulp you eat and what you add. Raw mango provides about 60 kcal per 100 g, so a bowl of 150 g of plain pulp is roughly 90 kcal. Sugar, milk and cream raise that figure. These are general mango figures from Wikipedia, not a lab result for our fruit.
Mango also provides about 36 mg of vitamin C per 100 g, roughly 40% of the Daily Value. If you are managing diabetes or watching sugar, ask your doctor or dietitian how much aamras suits you, because the sweetness is natural but it is still sugar.
Choosing mangoes for aamras
The best aamras starts with fruit that has ripened on its own. We do not use carbide. Our Alphonso mangoes are ripened naturally on hay beds. Selling fruit ripened with calcium carbide gas is prohibited in India under Regulation 2.3.5 of the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011.
Our fruit is hand-harvested with a zela pole and catching net, and we hold GI Authorised User certificate AU/5974/GI/139/260 (GI No. 139). Fresh Alphonso is harvested from about February to June, with the best supply from March to May, and the 2027 season opens on 1 February 2027. Order from Ratnagiri Alphonso Mango or Devgad Alphonso Mango, from Rs 1,849 per dozen.
Storing aamras and buying pulp
Aamras tastes best on the day it is made, because the colour and flavour fade as it sits. Cover any leftover and refrigerate it, and use it soon. Pulp keeps longer in a sealed tin, which is the reason many families buy it for the off-season. We dispatch by Blue Dart, and about 65% of Indian PIN codes get next-day delivery, so check your PIN code at checkout. Report damage within 24 hours of delivery. More recipes are in our mango recipe collection.
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People also ask
How do you make aamras?
Blend ripe Alphonso mango pulp smooth, adding cold water or milk a tablespoon at a time. Stir in cardamom and dry ginger, taste, and add sugar only if the fruit is under-ripe. Chill for 30 minutes and serve with hot puri. Four ripe mangoes serve four people.
Are aamras and mango shake the same?
No. Aamras is mostly pulp, thick enough to eat with a spoon or scoop with puri, and it is lightly flavoured with cardamom and dry ginger. A mango shake is thinned with milk, often sweetened, and usually served cold in a glass.
How many calories are in a bowl of aamras?
Raw mango provides about 60 kcal per 100 g, so a 150 g bowl of plain pulp is roughly 90 kcal. Added sugar, milk or cream raises the total. These are general mango figures, not a lab result for our fruit.
Can I make aamras with mango pulp from a tin?
Yes. Pour Alphonso mango pulp into a bowl, add cardamom and a pinch of dry ginger, thin with cold water if needed, stir and chill. It takes a few minutes and works when fresh Alphonso is not sold. Our pulp tins start from Rs 590.
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Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia, Alphonso mango, accessed October 2026.
- APEDA, Mango Pulp, accessed October 2026.
- Wikipedia, Mango, accessed October 2026.
- Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales Regulations, 2011, Regulation 2.3.5 (compendium of 2 April 2025), accessed October 2026.
Written by Prashant Powle, founder of AlphonsoMango.in. Last reviewed October 2026.