Mango Salad

Mango salad, this is the menu that I just found only in Canada. I had never seen in Thai restaurants in Chicago either. Well, in Thailand we have mango salad but nothing like this at all, we use small green(very green) and sour than South America's mango. As soon as I arrived in Canada, my Canadian family that I am living with is curious about my Thai cooking. They asked me to make mango salad, and I wasn't sure about it so I did some searching online and went to Thai restaurant in Toronto and ordered it to try out. The owner in Thai restaurant told me that it's very popular dish in Canada, so I tasted it and created my own recipe and tested out with my Canadian family and friends here. It's not complicated to prepare and less ingredients.

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Mango Salad

Tip ; Pick up green mango that most likely firm than soft, smell good and no any spot outside on the skin. Color should be slice yellow and easy to cut, not messy to your hands or  too slippery. Taste the mango and if it not as sweet, spring a pints of table salt and keep it chill just to bring up sweetness of mango before you serve with the dressing. I like to cut up every things and chill then in refrigerator before serve.

Ingredients

2     Green mango, 1 cm thickly sliced

1     Red bell pepper, stemmed, cored, seeded and 1 cm thickly sliced

1/2  Red onion, thinly sliced

2     stalks celery, cleaned and thinly sliced

1/2  cup roasted peanut, rough chopped

2     cloves garlic, thinly sliced

1 tsp lime zest

4 tbsp  fresh lime juice
2 tbsp  fish sauce
2 tbsp honey or sugar
3 tbsp  canola oil
1 spring green onion and 4 springs cilantro, chopped roughly.

Direction;

1. In salad bowl, mixed mango with couple teaspoon of salt if it need to, add red pepper, onion celery and chill in refrigerator until serve.
2. Dressing; in small pan, add oil and garlic, cook in low heat until it aromatic, take the garlic off and let it cool down. In small mixing bowl, whisk lime zest, lime juice, fish sauce and honey or sugar together or until sugar have dissolved, add garlic oil and whisk well. Pour the dressing over the mango salad, add peanut, green onion and cilantro. Note; dressing before serve will give fresh taste of ingredients.