Chopped Salad With Mango Dressing

I have two dozen of mangos in my pantry, yes I am a mango hoarder and also an avocado hoarder, which is I don’t mind, I can have so many mangoes and avocados but few apples. There are endless recipes by using mango and avocado, here I make a chopped salad with mango dressing for lunch also for dinner. Serve the salad with baked salmon, there you have a simple and delicious dinner.

Chopped salad with mango dressing

Ingredient

• 1 cup chopped lettuce
• 1 cup diced mango
• 1/4 cup diced yellow bell pepper
• 1 shallot, sliced
• 1/4 cup diced cucumber
• 1/2 cup grape tomato

Mango Dressing

• 1/4 cup diced mango
• 1 stalk green onion
• 1 clove garlic
• 1 tsp grated fresh ginger
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• 1/4 cup chopped parsley
• 1 Thai chili (optional)
• juice from 1 lemon
• salt and pepper

Direction

• In medium bowl or serving bowl, put all chopped vegetables and fruits
• In a food processor or blender, put all ingredient for mango dressing, process until smooth.
• Pour over salad, add more salt and pepper if you desired, serve.
• If you don’t have nut allergy, you can add peanut, almond or nuts of your choice for topping.
• Sunflower seed, hemp or ground flax seed is a good choice for topping if you have a nuts allergy.