Luscious Mango and Turkey Salad with sweet bell peppers and a light refreshing vinaigrette. Also delicious on its own as a light lunch.
While mangoes are commonly found and eaten in the Indian sub-continent and Southeast Asia, it is considered an exotic fruit here in the Midwest. Many are unfamiliar with the fruit. Sometimes, people ask me how the fruit tastes or how to prepare it when I am buying mangoes at the grocery store. The mangoes that we get here are imported from South America. They are not as fragrant as the Asian varieties but I am happy to say that they are very sweet and juicy.
Varieties Of Mangoes
Today, mangoes are a major cash crop in many parts of Southeast Asia and South America. There are many varieties of mangoes to choose from at the markets over there. In contrast, we only get a single generic type of mango here at the grocery stores. Store bought mangoes have a predictable taste and quality but home grown ones are highly prized and shared only among friends and family.
In Malaysia, it is a usual sight for small town houses to have that solitary mango tree in their yard. These trees are greatly treasured by the home owner and you can always spot a productive tree by the multitude of newspaper shrouds around the precious fruits to protect them from the pecking birds. Incidentally, the mango shoots can also be eaten as a spicy salad (pucuk ulam).
Ways To Enjoy Mangoes
The easiest way to eat mango is just to peel it and cut the flesh into cubes or slices. A popular Thai mango dessert is to combine fresh cut mangoes with steamed glutinous rice drizzled with thick coconut cream. You can use pureed mangoes in frosting on cakes, cookies, tarts, and ice cream, or as part of a dessert, or the topic of my post today in a fusion salad.
1. Mango Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
2. Sweet Rice Cake with Mango Custard Topping
3. Sour Cream Cookies with Mangoes and Pistachios
4. Mango Egg Tarts
5. Cantaloupe and Mango Sorbet
6. Rojak
7. Salsa
Mango and Turkey Salad – An Easy Introduction To The Joys Of Mangoes
This Mango and Turkey Salad is an easy introduction for those new to the joys of mangoes. It uses easy to find ingredients from the local grocery store. I used turkey or any other white meat to complement the sweetness of the mangoes. Sweet peppers abundantly found at this time provide the salad with color and texture. The mint leaves gives it a refreshing taste.
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Mango and Turkey Salad
Ingredients
- 1 mango (peeled, seeded, and cubed)
- 8 oz cooked turkey (cubed) (225g)
- 1 mini sweet red pepper (sliced)
- 1 mini sweet yellow pepper (sliced)
- 1 mini sweet orange pepper (sliced)
- Ground pepper to taste
- 1 tsp black sesame seeds (toasted)
- 2 leaves Boston lettuce
Vinaigrette
- 2 tbsp rice vinegar
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tsp sugar
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 sprig mint leaves (thinly sliced)
Instructions
- In an empty bottle, combine all vinaigrette ingredients. Put the lid on and give it a good shake.
- Place mango, cubed turkey, and sweet peppers in a salad bowl.
- Grind pepper and drizzle vinaigrette over salad ingredients.
- Toss to get ingredients well coated with vinaigrette.
- Sprinkle sesame seeds over salad.
- To serve, line a dish with lettuce leaf. Spoon salad onto lettuce and serve immediately.
Nutrition
MaryMoh says
That looks so colourful, healthy and delicious! Love it.
Biren says
Thanks Mary! 🙂
denise @ singapore shiok says
Such a colourful, gorgeous salad! I love mangoes, my favourite being the huge, highly perfumed and incredibly sweet harum manis from Indonesia. You certainly are very creative with them; I usually just cut them open and attack before hubby and the boys get wind of the lovely mango aroma LOL
Biren says
I had some very huge and fragrant ones from Sri Lanka during my last trip to KL. They were good but pretty expensive. Most of the time, like you, I just “attack” them but sometimes it is nice to make something with them especially the very ripe ones.
Dongxing says
Mango by itself is delicious, with anything else is equally as good. Our house favourite is with cherry tomatoes, cucumber and big juicy prawns – our own in-house variation of a “prawn cocktail”. I had a turkey sandwich with mango puree once and it was very tasty.
Biren says
Mango is good on its own and really tasty mixed with most things. Your prawn cocktail sounds wonderful!
Ramona says
Beautiful and vibrant colors!! Looks amazing. Sorry if I mentioned this before, but I have an award for you on my post dated 9-2-12… please have a look. 🙂
Biren says
Thanks Ramona for the award! You are a sweetie! Hugs xx
Kitchen Belleicious says
what a beautiful and flavorful salad. I love mango with my turkey. I sometimes make a mango chutney to put on turkey and pork. the addition of the black sesame seeds is perfect touch
Biren says
Mango is just the best with turkey as turkey is so mild. Your mango chutney sounds really delicious.
Angie@Angie's Recipes says
Biren, this is such a beautiful and colourful salad.
Biren says
Thanks Angie!
mjskit says
Oh I love ALL of your mango dishes! What a great salad! Lots of color and flavor, plus the protein. Love the use of the turkey! Glad to see you using rice vinegar in the dressing. I have a chicken and veggie salad that I make and the dressing has rice vinegar in it as well. So good with poultry! Lovely salad!!
Biren says
Thanks MJ! I often use rice vinegar for my salads as that is what I have in the pantry. 🙂 It works well for most of the vinaigrettes.
Raymund says
Anything with mango count me in, this certainly looks delish
Biren says
Thanks Raymund! You’re in! 🙂
kitchenriffs says
I’ve never thought of combining mango and turkey. It must taste terrific! It sure looks terrific – so pretty. Really, really nice – just a great recipe. Thanks.
Biren says
Thank you Kitchenriffs! It was pretty tasty. 🙂
Amanda@chewtown says
Beautiful vibrant colours! I love the idea of mango and turkey.