A refreshing mango avocado salad starter or side dish. With chunks of avocado coated in lime, finely chopped red onion, fiery red chilli and a good handful of fresh coriander. A perfect Caribbean starter or side dish that goes down great with anything spicy.
Mango salad starter
This lovely little mango starter recipe is a great way to kick off any meal. Its also a great side dish to most main meals, particularly spicy mains and I love it with my cuban black bean rice. Its a salad thats colourful, tasty, full of flavour and bursting at the seems with healthiness. Good monounsaturated fats, a couple of helpings of your 5 a day, high in fibre and full of lots of vitamins and minerals. – Its really not just a pretty dish.
Keeping mango avocado salad fresh
To make sure the salad stays fresh once its made, the whole lot needs to be tossed in plenty of lime juice. Then placed in a sealable container or in a bowl wrapped with cling film and stored in the fridge until needed. Its worth noting that it doesn’t take much for avocado to oxidise and start turning brown. I’d even suggest tossing the avocado in lime juice separately and making sure it fully coated, before adding to the rest of the salad and then adding more lime. The same method with lime juice also works with guacamole.
A mango and avocado salsa is a dish I like to make in advance as the mango and avocado chopping needs to be negotiated and I’d rather make sure that was done and out of the way. However, as a general rule I wouldn’t make this salad more than a day in advance. For more salad ideas have a look at my salad recipes collection.
How to cut avocado and mango
If you feel you need a little bit of help with cutting avocado and mango, I’ve put together a couple of tips for making these chopping jobs super easy: How to cut an avocado and How to cut a mango. Definitely worth a look if you’ve never attempted either. Knowing how to quickly chop an avocado always comes in handy when making any of my easy avocado recipes.
How do you make mango avocado salad?
- Finely chop red onion and place in a large bowl
- Cube and remove the skin of one fresh mango and add to the bowl
- Cube the flesh of one ripe avocado, squeeze over lime juice from half a lime to keep fresh and add to the bowl
- Finely chop one red chilli and add to the bowl
- Add freshly chopped coriander, lime juice and seasoning
- Toss together well and serve with extra lime wedges and fresh coriander
Avocado recipes and benefits
I use avocado in so many recipes so I’ve put together a guide on Easy Avocado Recipes, with extra information on using, storing and eating avocado.
Mango avocado salad
Ingredients
- 100 g Red onion finely chopped
- 150 g Mango flesh cubed
- 200 g avocado flesh cubed
- 1 Red chilli de-seeded and finely chopped
- 1 juice of lime
- 1 handful fresh coriander leaves roughly chopped
- extra lime wedges and coriander for serving
Instructions
- Finely chop red onion and place in a large bowl
- Cube and remove the skin of one fresh mango and add to the bowl
- Cube the flesh of one ripe avocado, squeeze over lime juice from half a lime to keep fresh and add to the bowl
- Finely chop one red chilli and add to the bowl
- Add freshly chopped coriander, lime juice and seasoning
- Toss together well and serve with extra lime wedges and fresh coriander
