Jicama Salad with Mango, Vegetable, Aguacate, Scatter and Aleppo Chile Flakes - a toothsome lusty support provide that pairs advantageously with cooked chickenhearted and seek. Perfect for alfresco dining, exterior gatherings, barbecues and potlucks!
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This salad is prefabricated with all fruits and veggies. It's a rattling rubicund, low-calorie yet highly nutritious side-dish to follow grilled meats or search, pairing shaft with Mexican, Sea or alter Eastern flavors.
Dyad it with Grilled Sambal Fearful , Chipotle Portobello Tacos, Peruvian Yellow and Greenish Sauce, Mexican Salmon with Avocado Cuke Salsa or the Chili Ail Tofu from this recipe.
In our catering activity, we prefab a version of this, but with the addition of parched, chilled peewee and served it as an course. The goody tropical mango, matched with crunchy jicama and cucumber, drizzled with citrus is much a tasteful combo. Aguacate can be else in at the end, or sinistral out nudeness for a lighter edition. This could easily be served alongside spatulate cooked chicken.
ingredients
- 1 large jicama (softball sized) or purchase pre-cut matchsticks ( about 2 cups)
- 2 mangos ( firm, but not rock hard) Note: soft ones will disintegrate
- ½ an English cucumber
- 1 red bell pepper ( or sub 6 radishes)
- ¼ cup red onions, thinly sliced ( or 3-4 scallions)
- ¼ cup cilantro leaves
- 2 limes
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon Aleppo chili flakes ( or regular chili flakes, or powder)
- Optional : Avocado, cooked chilled shrimp, a bed of greens.
instructions
- Using a sharp veggie peeler, peel mangos and jicama. Slice mangos into ½ inch thick slices or wedges. Cut jicama into ¼ inch thick matchsticks about 2 inches long. Slice the cucumber in half, scoop out the seeds and cut into long strips, then cut into 2 inch matchsticks. Thinly slice the bell pepper into strips.
- Place all in a large bowl along with the sliced onions and cilantro. Drizzle with 2 T olive oil.
- Zest one of the limes and add it to the bowl. Juice the limes, (you should have about 4 tablespoons lime juice) and add it to the bowl. Add salt and chili flakes and gently toss. Taste. Adjust lime, salt and chili flakes.
- Right before serving you could add avocado slices – just gently fold them in last.