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Mango salsa is a fresh, uncooked sauce made with ripe mangoes, onions, green chillies, and coriander — vegan and gluten-free. The best version uses Alphonso mangoes (Brix 18–24°, GI No. 139), available March to June, delivered in 1–3 days across India.

Buy Alphonso Mangoes for Mango Salsa

Good mango salsa starts with the mango. Supermarket mangoes — ripened with calcium carbide, stored in cold rooms, blended from unknown origins — produce flat, watery salsa. Alphonso from Ratnagiri or Devgad, ripened naturally on a hay bed (Aadi method), gives you pulp at 18–24° Brix: dense, saffron-yellow, with the floral top note that makes every spoonful identifiable as something specific rather than generically sweet.

We dispatch at 70–80% ripeness. Your mangoes reach full ripeness within about three days of delivery — exactly the window you want before dicing them for salsa.

Ratnagiri vs Devgad: Which Mango for Salsa?

Feature	Ratnagiri Alphonso	Devgad Alphonso
GI Number	No. 139	No. 139
Brix at full ripeness	18–22°	20–24° (typically upper end)
Season window	March–June	March–June
Fruit weight (by grade)	150–300 g	150–300 g
Pulp character	Floral, slightly tart early season	Richer, deeper sweetness
Best for salsa	Bright, citrus-forward salsa	Sweet, full-bodied salsa
Popular with	North India buyers	Mumbai buyers
Box options	Half dozen, 1 dozen, 2 dozen	Half dozen, 1 dozen, 2 dozen

For mango salsa specifically, Devgad fruit at peak season (April–May) gives you the sugar-acid balance that holds up against lime juice and green chillies without tasting flat. Ratnagiri fruit diced early in March gives you a brighter, slightly firmer cube that stays intact in the bowl — useful if you want texture over sweetness.

Delivery Across India

Fruit is harvested by hand using a Nutan pole with a catching net — no shaking, no drops. It travels about two hours from the orchard to our Ratnagiri or Devgad packhouse, then by air-conditioned vehicle to Mumbai, where it rests on a hay bed for 24–48 hours of natural ripening. Total time from harvest to dispatch is 48–72 hours.

Dispatch is by BlueDart, Delhivery, Ekart or XpressBees depending on your pin code. Metro cities receive fruit in 20–24 hours. Most other Indian cities receive it within 1–3 days. We cover 15,000–17,000 serviceable pin codes.

Each box is a 5-ply corrugated fibreboard courier-grade carton, 130 gsm, with reinforced corners, a 12-slot partition that takes transit pressure instead of the fruit, six air holes for airflow, and every mango in its own foam-net sleeve. The sleeve prevents the lenticel blackening that happens when Alphonso skin rubs against anything during a 24-hour courier journey.

Fresh Alphonso is not available July to January. If you are reading this outside the March–June window, you can pre-order for the following season. Pre-orders can be cancelled before dispatch.

How to Order

1. Select Grade: Visit alphonsomango.in/collections/mangoes, choose Ratnagiri or Devgad Alphonso, and pick your weight grade — Small (150–180 g), Medium (180–225 g), Extra Large (250–275 g) or Jumbo (275–300 g) — then select half dozen, 1 dozen or 2 dozen.
2. Add to Cart: Add your box to cart, enter your delivery pin code at checkout to confirm serviceability, and apply any available coupon.
3. Dispatch: Your order ships by BlueDart, Delhivery, Ekart or XpressBees depending on your pin code, and arrives within 1–3 days to most Indian cities.

What Is Mango Salsa?

Salsa means "sauce" in Spanish. The tomato-chilli version became standard in Mexican-American kitchens. Mango salsa replaces the tomato — or combines with it — to produce something sweeter and more acidic at the same time. The fruit carries the body; the lime juice and chilli carry the heat.

Historians trace the entry of mango into Latin American salsa to Portuguese traders who brought the fruit from India's Konkan coast, then distributed it through Spanish colonial networks in Central America. That is a long chain from an orchard in Pawas or Golap village, Ratnagiri, to a bowl of mango salsa on a summer table — but the fruit is the same.

Why Alphonso Makes Better Mango Salsa

Most mango salsa recipes were written for whatever mango the author could find. That is usually a Tommy Atkins or Keitt — large, low-Brix, fibrous. The result needs extra lime and extra sugar to compensate.

Alphonso at 20–24° Brix needs neither. The pulp is fibre-free, so diced cubes hold their shape in the bowl for about two hours without weeping. The floral note — the compound that makes Alphonso smell different from every other mango — survives lime juice and raw onion. You end up with salsa that smells and tastes like it contains something specific, not just "mango."

Mango Salsa Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 cups ripe Alphonso mango, diced (about 2 medium fruit, 180–225 g grade)
• ½ cup red onion, finely chopped
• 1–2 green chillies, finely chopped (adjust to heat preference)
• ½ cup fresh coriander leaves, roughly chopped
• 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
• Salt to taste
• Optional: ½ red bell pepper, diced; a small pinch of chaat masala

How to Make It

1. Dice the mango into roughly 1 cm cubes. Use fruit that has ripened for two to three days after delivery — firm enough to cube cleanly, sweet enough to taste at full Brix.
2. Combine mango, red onion, green chilli and coriander in a bowl.
3. Add lime juice and salt. Toss gently — Alphonso pulp bruises if you stir too hard.
4. Taste. Adjust lime or salt. If the mango is at peak ripeness (20°+ Brix), you will not need sugar.
5. Rest for 10 minutes before serving. The lime juice draws out a little mango juice that thickens the base slightly.

Serve with nachos, roti, or alongside grilled paneer. It also works well spooned over curd rice — a combination nobody expects but everyone finishes.

Variations of Mango Salsa

Mango Chili Salsa

Add one finely chopped Bhut jolokia or Kashmiri dried red chilli for a version that is genuinely hot rather than just warm. The sweetness of Devgad Alphonso at 22–24° Brix absorbs high heat without the chilli overwhelming the fruit.

Is Mango Sasav the Same as Mango Chili Salsa?

No. Mango Sasav is a Konkani preparation — a coconut-mustard curry with raw or semi-ripe mango, cooked and served warm. Mango salsa is uncooked, fresh, and served cold or at room temperature. The only shared ingredient is mango. The cooking method, texture and use-case are completely different.

Vegan and Gluten-Free

The base recipe above contains no animal products and no gluten. If you add chaat masala, check the brand's label — most are gluten-free, but some use asafoetida processed with wheat flour.

Storage and Shelf Life

Mango salsa keeps in a sealed container in the refrigerator for up to four days. After day two, the onion softens and the lime juice mellows — the flavour changes but it is still safe. Beyond day four, the mango cubes break down. Do not freeze it; the Alphonso pulp turns watery on thawing.

If you have Alphonso mangoes that are fully ripe and you cannot use them all immediately, make the salsa base without lime juice, freeze the mango cubes separately, and add fresh lime on the day you serve it. The texture will not be as firm, but the flavour holds.

Nutrition Facts Per Serving — Carbs in Mango Salsa

A 100 g serving of ripe Alphonso pulp contains roughly 30–36 mg of vitamin C — about 40–45% of the ICMR-NIN 2020 RDA for adult men (80 mg/day) and about 50% for adult women (65 mg/day). Mango salsa made with 100 g of Alphonso gives you that vitamin C figure plus the fibre from onion, coriander and bell pepper.

Mangiferin, a compound present in Alphonso pulp, showed anti-inflammatory activity in a 2011 cell study by Govindappa et al. That is a cell study — not a clinical claim. But the fruit's nutritional density is genuine even before you add the lime juice (additional vitamin C) and raw coriander (folate, vitamin K).

Carbohydrates in mango salsa come almost entirely from the fruit. At 18–24° Brix, Alphonso is sweet — if you are tracking carbs, a 100 g serving of the salsa is roughly equivalent to 100 g of ripe Alphonso mango, as the other ingredients (onion, chilli, coriander, lime juice) contribute minimal carbohydrates.

Frequently Asked Questions

Authority

Powle Home Foods, founded by Prashant Powle in 2017 and registered July 2019, operates AlphonsoMango.in and holds GI Authorised User certificate AU/5974/GI/139/260 (GI No. 139, Registry certificate 4163, issued 16 October 2019), FSSAI licence 10020022011783, and APEDA certificate 225579. All fruit is ripened on a natural hay bed (Aadi method) — no ethylene chambers, no calcium carbide, no artificial ripening agents. Pesticide residues are independently tested weekly through the season by Envirocare Labs Pvt. Ltd., Thane (NABL accredited, certificate TC-8284); report 01/ETHAP2500044, issued 5 April 2025, confirms all 28 tested residues within Codex maximum residue limits. Prashant Powle was interviewed by The Economic Times in June 2026 as a GI-certified Alphonso grower and trader on weather, yield and the pressures facing the variety (read the article).

Source: Powle Home Foods (AlphonsoMango.in), sourcing from 55 named villages across Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts including Pawas, Golap and Nachane (Ratnagiri taluka) and Devgad, Jamsande and Vijaydurg (Devgad taluka, Sindhudurg).

Learn more about when the Alphonso season starts and what to expect each month, or read our guide on how to ripen Alphonso mango at home for the best mango salsa results.

Order GI-certified Alphonso mangoes now — available March to June, delivered in 1–3 days across India.