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Mango, avocado and arugula salad

By Layla Pujol 27 Comments

Easy recipe for a delicious and refreshing mango, avocado and arugula salad drizzled with a spicy orange vinaigrette.

Arugula salad with mango and avocado

Receta en español


I love the colors in this refreshing mango, avocado, and arugula salad with a spicy orange vinaigrette. The mix of arugula, mango, avocado, red onions, cilantro, and red chili peppers make it a fun and bright salad. I’ve always enjoyed salads and am fortunate that my kids also love salads.

Mango avocado and arugula salad

Especially the younger one, on those days that he decides to be a picky eater (and refuses to eat the main dish), he will still eat his salad and ask for more. For some odd reason he really likes the onions and can’t get enough of them, then he goes for the avocado, next the mango and finally the arugula. To make this salad a more complete meal, you can also add grilled shrimp, grilled salmon, or grilled chicken. 

Mango, avocado, and arugula salad

I used a red Fresno chili pepper for this salad to give it spice and color. You can also use a milder hot pepper or a red bell pepper if you find chili peppers too hot. Though once you remove the seeds and membranes they lose a lot of the heat. I debated using some crushed garlic instead, but I feel like I’ve been adding garlic to everything (seriously sometimes I feel like I can’t cook unless I use garlic, cumin or cilantro) so I’m taking a garlic break for this salad.

Mango avocado arugula salad

I like to use a little bit of creativity to keep salads interesting. A salad should be more than just a bowl of greens. Ok, greens are good, and my husband makes an amazing simple salad with a great mustard dressing. However, there are so many other additional ingredients and flavors that can be added to really make a salad stand out and have its own character.

Mango, avocado & arugula salad
Mango avocado salad

Mango, avocado and arugula salad

Refreshing mango, avocado and arugula salad drizzled with a spicy orange vinaigrette
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Course: Appetizer, Salad, Starter
Cuisine: American, Latin, Latin fusion, Southwest
Keyword: Arugula, Arugula salad, Avocado, Mango, Spicy orange vinaigrette
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes
Servings: 4 to 6

Ingredients

  • 6 cups arugula leaves
  • 1 mango peeled and cut into long slices
  • 1 avocado peeled and sliced
  • ½ red onion sliced
  • 1 tbs lime juice

For the spicy orange vinaigrette

  • 1 tbs champagne vinegar can also use cider vinegar or lemon juice
  • 4 tbs orange juice about ½ orange
  • 2 tbs lime juice about ½ lime
  • 4 tbs olive oil
  • ½ tsp cumin
  • 2 tbs finely chopped cilantro
  • 1 red chili or hot pepper sliced
  • Salt and pepper

Instructions

  • Combine all the ingredients for the salad dressing in a jar, close it tight and shake until the ingredients are well mixed.
  • Soak the onion slices in warm water with a dash of salt and 1 tbs lime juice for about 10 minutes.
  • Rinse and drain the onions slices.
  • Toss the arugula leaves with half of the vinaigrette.
  • Add the avocado slices, mango slices and onion slices to the arugula mix, drizzle the remaining vinaigrette on top.
  • Serve immediately.

Step by step photos for mango, avocado and arugula salad:

Spicy orange vinaigrette
Spicy orange vinaigrette
Mango slices
Arugula with spicy orange vinaigrette
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Comments

  1. Sofie says

    December 23, 2014 at 3:03 am

    This is a great recipe! I added shrimps and this made up a wonderful starter!

    Reply
  2. Cherri says

    August 18, 2013 at 4:34 pm

    Made this today… As awesome!!,

    Reply
  3. Nina says

    June 6, 2013 at 7:24 pm

    Wow! I had a plastic tub of arugula that I wanted to make into a palatable salad, came upon your site and tried your recipe. I cannot believe the awesomeness of the flavors combined that way! So delish and easy to make! I had no cilantro or champagne vinegar so substituted parsley and apple cider vinegar – wonderful! I made my dressing using a whole organic orange and lime, blended in my Vitamix together with the vinegar and parsley and cumin. I added the oil afterwards in a bowl so I could wash the Vitamix much more easily – gotta cut time in the kitchen every way you can :) Thank you for your beautiful photos too! I am bookmarking this site! :)
    Love, the Healthnut

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  4. Camille L MacLean says

    April 8, 2013 at 8:10 pm

    This recipe is absolutely amazing. The flavors and colors work so beautifully together. I am absolutely addicted!

    Reply
  5. Karla @ Foodologie says

    February 28, 2013 at 8:17 am

    I made this salad last night and it was fantastic! I used spinach because that’s what I had on hand. It was tasty. I bet arugula would have made it 48493049 million times better. Thanks for the recipe!

    Reply
  6. Jill Ireland says

    July 14, 2012 at 9:26 pm

    I was looking for a fun recipe for an arugula salad and the picture of this salad is what drew me in..and that it included my favorite foods- cilantro, avocado and mango! I made it tonight for some friends and the only change I made was adding goat cheese to the salad…it was amazing! Thanks for sharing your talent!

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  7. Angelica says

    July 6, 2012 at 3:31 pm

    Oh lalalalala! I am so happy that I have found your website, I have passion for cooking, and I’m always in my kitchen having fun being creative and listening to my French music play list while cooking something differing every day. My husband is my number fan :) and today as he was watching me pulling all my ingridients out of the fridge I said to myself, “I have this beautiful mangoe and argula so I am going to mix them together to prepare a delicious summer argula-mango salad” but I still wasn’t sure about the other ingredients so I went in my search engine with just the words “argula salad.” To my delightful surprise this recipe came out with mango and red onions which is also another of my favor ingridients on any salad….Your salad is so genious and simple, it is now my number one favor for this summer and many to come. I added some steelhead fillet and immediately this simple salad became the main course of tonight’s dinner. Thank you!

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