I remember first seeing a salad making a dressing using pineapple.
I was so intrigued by the sweet and savory profile of the recipe, I knew I had to use it a favorite winter fruit: Thai mangoes!
I absolutely love sweet and salty combinations, and this beautiful and vibrant dressing was too colorful not to work with!
I could eat this salad everyday, it is so scrumptious, and so beautiful to look at.
I love to eat it for my lunch and make a pig of myself eating a whole bowl…it’s just so darn good! So even though it might sound a bit weird…just TRY it, and then see for yourself!
What kind of mango is best for mango vinaigrette?
I exclusively use Thai mangoes in this recipe. They are sometimes times called different names: I’ve seen Champagne and honey. They are about the size of your yellow, and shaped like an over sized lima bean!
They are THE best mango, I don’t actually even care for the larger green variety most people associate with mango. I use them in my Mango stick rice too…which will knock your socks off!
Additional healthy homemade salad dressings:
- my paleo honey mustard is a kid fav!
- I love my cranberry vinaigrette…bright red!
- Chipotle vinaigrette goes well in all sorts of Mexican dishes!
- Olive garden copycat dressing
- here’s a Whole30 Caesar dressing!
Mango Vinaigrette Recipe:
If you make this vibrant dressing, be sure to come back and leave your feedback below in the comments!
Mango Vinaigrette
Ingredients
Dressing:
Salad:
- 5 oz mixed greens
- 1/2 cup purple cabbage finely diced or shredded
- 1 cup Thai mango diced
- 1 medium avocado diced
- 4 slices bacon cooked and crumbled (optional, for vegan, I suggest adding toasted sunflower seeds for some crunch!)
Instructions
- Blend all the dressing ingredients in a blender. Thin with water to desired consistency.
- Assemble salad ingredients and top with dressing!
Nutrition
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I’m in love with this salad!
The mangoes are AMAZING this time of year…and this salad is such a great and surprising combo!! Thanks Annie!
The subject of this week’s Food on Friday is Salad. It would be great if you linked this in. This is the link . I found this through Melt in Your Mouth Mondays
This must be a salad of contrasts with the sweetness of the mango and the salt of the bacon. It is being featured this week at My Meatless Mondays.
Oh Tessa, this salad looks amazing! I love the salty / sweet flavourings it has going on, and it’s absolutely beautiful to look at too. I’m going to feature this on my Hearth and Soul post this week. I hope you don’t mind me ‘borrowing’ the photograph to do so. Have a lovely week!
Thank YOU April, I’ll look for it!
This looks so yummy. I have to make it without the bacon but I have a feeling, it still is going to be delicious. I have printed it up and if I get mangoes, I will make it for dinner.
We had this for lunch. Added hard boiled eggs for additional protein, it was perfect. xo
mmmmm…we had this for lunch. Added hard boiled eggs for additional protein, it was perfect. xo
Yay sunny! Glad you guys liked it too!
So, My hubby is vegetarian. What can I replace the bacon with? He is a huge mango lover so I know he’ll love this salad… just not sure about the bacon!
Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe at Sugar Free Sunday!
The bacon is not the star of this recipe….the dressing is! Just,leaf
E it out and add sun roasted sunflower seeds for some crunch if you want!
mmmm, this sounds great! AND I have everything in my kitchen for it. I see a mango & bacon salad lunch being added to the menu!
Tessa,
What an awesome salad, I just love Mango and the addition of the Bacon will put this over the top. Hope you are having a great week end and thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
Come Back Soon!
Miz Helen
Tessa! this looks great – pinned! thanks for linking with kids in the kitchen!
Fruit + bacon = YUMMY! Thank you for sharing this.
Of course Beth, hope you try it! We had it for dinner again tonight!
Yummy, looks really good! Very inspired to use mango instead of pineapple, it probably tastes better that way! Thanks for sharing this with Summer Salad Sundays, look forward to seeing you again soon.
I have chosen to feature your salad this week! I have tweeted it, pinned it and shared it on my Facebook page. It will be featured on Summer Salad Sundays this coming Sunday. Thanks for linking up and I hope to see you again soon!
What a beautiful and tasty salad! Love the mango in the salad and in the dressing as well!
Thanks for linking your great post to FAT TUESDAY. This looks really good! Hope to see you next week! Be sure to visit RealFoodForager.com on Sunday for
Sunday Snippets – your post from Fat Tuesday may be featured there!
http://realfoodforager.com/2011/10/fat-tuesday-october-4-2011/
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