Mango Cheesecake Parfait
This Mango Cheesecake Parfait is an Egg-Free, Gelatin-Free, and No-Bake creamy dessert. It is a very easy summertime dessert made with mangoes, lemon, cream cheese, yogurt, and some biscuits!
Ingredients
For The Mango Puree
- 2 Ripe mangoes + for garnishing
- 1/4 cup Granulated sugar
- 1 pinch Salt
Cheesecake Mix
- 8 oz Cream cheese at room temperature
- 1 cup Hung curd * see notes
- 4 tsp Powdered sugar
- 1 tsp Lemon juice
For The Base
- 100 grams Marie biscuits * see notes
- 3 tbsp Butter melted
Instructions
For The Mango Puree
- Wash, peel, and chop the mangoes into cubes. In a grinding jar, add the mango cubes and make a puree out of them - around 1 heaping cup.
- In a pan, add mango puree, 2-3 tbsp water, a pinch of salt, and sugar. Mix well and cook for 6-7 minutes on a medium heat stirring continuously. Set aside to cool down.
Cheesecake Mix
- Whisk cream cheese for 30 seconds, add powdered sugar, and mix it well with your hand mixer.
- Combine hung curd, lemon juice, and whisk everything well. Fold in the prepared mango puree. Keep 1-2 tbsp for decoration if you like.
For The Base
- In a food processor, add the biscuits, and grind them coarse. In a bowl, add the biscuit crumbs, some melted butter, and mix very well.
- Equally divide the biscuit crumbs at the base of the serving glasses and press them well. Set the glasses in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
Assembling
- Add the prepared cheesecake mixture into each serving glass and level it with the back of a spoon. Cover the glasses with a clear wrap and set in the refrigerator for 6-8 hours.
- While serving add a few mango pieces and other toppings of your choice.
Notes
- You can use graham crackers, digestive biscuits, or any plain cookies.
- Cooking the mango puree adds a good flavor to the dish. You can skip that process and simply add readymade mango pulp or fresh pulp as well.
- I have hung the homemade full fat yogurt into a muslin cloth for a few hours to make hung curd but you can use greek yoghurt as well.
- You can add some vanilla extract instead of lemon juice in the recipe.
- Adjust the sweetness according to the mangoes. If you use store bought sweetened mango pulp, skip adding sugar in the recipe.
- Honey can be added as a sweetener in the mango puree. Skip adding powdered sugar in the cheesecake mix.
- You can add a few drops of honey in the biscuit crumbs as well.
- Add the toppings of your choice like mangoes, strawberries, blueberries, pistachios, almonds, granola, or some crushed biscuits.
- Think of all the possibilities of presenting and layering the parfait in your own style.