1. In a perfect culinary world, ideally your red pepper, red onion and mango strips will approximate each other in size
2. Peel and cut two large ripe mangoes – approximately three cups – into thin slices (Your grocery store may sell already cut mango)
3. Peel and slice a medium onion, cutting each half into very thin slices
4. Cut a large red pepper into similar slices
5. Thoroughly rinse cilantro under cold water before fine chopping 2/3 cup - reserve a small handful and set aside
6. Add cashews
7. Toss together until well blended
8. Add most of the cilantro – remember to hold some in reserve
9. In a plastic bag or between two plastic cutting boards, using a rolling pin, rough crush peanuts
10. Add to salad and toss again
11. In a separate bowl, add fish sauce, rice vinegar, sweet chili sauce and remaining cilantro - whisk well to incorporate
12. Pour over salad
13. Refrigerate approximately 30 minutes before serving
14. Enjoy

With roots that trace back to the Southeast Asian cuisines of Thailand, Vietnam and Indian, a traditional mango salad recipe is as bold as it it bright, packing a powerful fruit punch that is at once balanced with sweet, salty, spicy, savory, nutty and spicy. As healthy and nutritious as it delicious, a mango salad recipe is jam-packed with vitamins including A, C and E; dietary fibers; antioxidants; carotenoids; polyphenols and all sorts of other big nutritional words that will make you give strong consideration to opening a spa – or maybe just bathing in it.

With mangoes in abundance – having been cultivated for thousands of years – in Southeast Asia, where they were and continue to be a staple fruit, it is only logical that the first iterations of a mango salad recipe also originated from the region. Mango salad can be made with either green – unripened – or sweeter, ripened, golden-yellow mangoes. Modern variants include fish sauce – also popular in Southeast Asian cuisine – an enduring sauce composed of fermented fish that tastes nothing like it smells and lends a salty note to the overall flavor of a mango salad.

Easy to make with no cooking involved, a mango salad recipe will pair well with fish, poultry, crab cakes, pork and more. It is also makes for a cool, refreshing, treat on a hot summer's day – but if you want to amp up the heat, a note of siracha, jalapeño or Thai chili peppers gets the job done nicely.

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