Mango Salad with Spicy Peanut Dressing

The warm weather came for a hot minute and then went away again... but maybe it's back -- it's supposed to be warm and sunny today! I'm willing it to be summertime by making summer food. 

It's that time of year when my favourite fruits are in season. I was excited to see ripe mangos at the grocery store and inspired to do something with them. I could eat mangos all day (honestly, I was eating some of the mango slices as I was making this salad), in any form: fresh mangos on their own, in poke, dried mangos from Trader Joe's (MAJOR CRAVINGS), mango ice-cream, mango salsa in my tacos, mango lassi, mango jelly in my bubble tea, mangos in curry. My mouth is watering.

My cravings were satisfied with this delicious mango salad. It's light like the type of food I like to eat on a hot summer day. Its full of flavour like the type of food I like to eat everyday.

I hope you like it :) 

Summer food season

Ingredients

Mango salad

• 3 ripe mangos, sliced
• 1 english cucumber, sliced
• 1 jalapeño pepper, cut into rounds
• 1/4 cup of chopped cilantro
• 1/3 cup of chopped cashews

Peanut dressing

• 1/4 cup of peanut flavoured sauce or peanut butter
• 1 tbsp of soy sauce
• 1 tbsp of rice wine vinegar 
• 1 tbsp of honey (if you use peanut butter, you don't have to add honey)
• 1 tbsp of sesame oil
• crushed red pepper flakes (adjust based on how much you like spice)

I used peanut flavoured sauce for the dressing but peanut butter works just as well!

Directions

• In a bowl combine the salad ingredients: mangoes, cucumber, jalapeño, cilantro and cashews.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together peanut flavoured sauce, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, honey, sesame oil and crushed red pepper flakes. 
• Pour your peanut dressing over your mango salad and give the salad a good toss.
• Serve and enjoooyyyy