Tango mandarins have a balanced, sweet-tart flavor best suited for both fresh and cooked applications. Tango mandarins can also be blended into smoothies, pressed into juice for vinaigrettes, dipped in chocolate as a sweet treat, or chopped into salsas. Beyond fresh applications, the fruits can be cooked into sauces, syrups, glazes, jams, and jellies, juiced and stirred into cocktails, fruit punches, and sparkling beverages, or cooked with roasted meats as a savory-sweet main dish. The mandarins can also be incorporated as flavoring into tarts, cakes, muffins, cookies, and sorbet. Tango mandarins pair well with meats such as poultry, pork, and ham, seafood, arugula, herbs such as basil, mint, and parsley, turmeric, ginger, chocolate, and fruits such as grapefruit, strawberries, blueberries, and apples. Fresh whole Tango mandarins will keep for two weeks when stored in a plastic bag in the refrigerator.