Spicy fruit is something visitors to Mexico often find unusual. The fact that Mexicans eat fruit covered in lime juice and chilli is  in fact part of the culture, often everywhere you go in Mexico you will see street sellers of spicy fruit (fruit covered in chilli) . While for many tourists the combination seems unusual, when they try it they realise is that it is really good, addictively good in fact!

Sometimes mangos are cut to look like flowers, placed on a stick and dipped in chilli, other times fruit is cut into slices, placed in a plastic bag, into which lime juice is squeezed and chilli is sprinkled. All sorts of fruits and some vegetables get this treatment, from mangos and watermelons to cucumbers and carrots. Have you ever try Spicy fruit yourself?

For Rolando and many other Mexicans, these spicy fruit snacks are his favourite summer treat, because they are tasty and refreshing. “There is something about the chilli spice that brings out the sweetness of the fruit and really makes it zing, especially with slightly acidic fruits like mangos” says Rolando.

Rolando’s love of the snack inspired a number of recipes that you can easily follow to make your own tasty treats. Why not try out some of our recipes  that combines the sweetness of ripe mangos, pineapple with the hot tang of our habanero sauce? It tastes just KanKuntastic!

Mango – Pineapple on the Grilled

MANGO  HABANERO JUICE