Mango Strawberry Salad

Happy Sunday folks! Hope your’e having a great weekend. Today I’d like to share with you this delicious and colorful salad made with bright mango and strawberries.

The inspiration

You know those times when you make a big bowl of cut fruit and have a bunch leftover. What to do with those beautiful cut fruit? In my case I had cut mango and strawberries, and I could have easily frozen them to use in a smoothy later. But instead I tossed them in a lunch time salad the next day.

Tangy fruit tastes great in salads

I had bought cut mango to serve for lunch and it was actually semi-ripe, so kinda sweet and kinda sour. I had also cut up some strawberries and though we ate plenty I still had a bunch leftover. I put them away in the fridge and was about to move them into the freezer when an idea came to use them in a salad.

Mango tastes especially fabulous in a salad as it can be a little sour adding complexity. Strawberries add that beautiful red color and they’ve got lots of nutrients too.

I chose to make a maple lemon juice vinaigrette to dress the salad, but any of your favorite vinaigrette will go great in here.

Next time your’e left with a little of cut mango and a little of strawberries, give this salad a try!

Mango Strawberry Salad

Ingredients:

Any leftover cut mango
Strawberries – as much as you want cut in half
1 small red onion cut into thin slices
1 avocado pit remove and sliced
2-3 small red pepper thinly sliced (optional)
1 bag of lettuce mix
Feta cheese (optional)
1 lemon
Maple Lemon Vinaigrette Link and Ingredients

Maple Syrup Salad Dressing

Directions:

Make the vinaigrette and set aside.

In a large salad bowl place the mango and strawberries. Top with lettuce, then the onions, and peppers and feta if using. Place the avocado and drizzle with little dressing, Cook’s Notes: I placed the mango and strawberries at the bottom so they wouldn’t weigh the lettuce down.