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Burmese Green Mango Salad Recipe. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Burmese Green Mango Salad Recipe for the Best Southeast Asian Green Mango Salad

Our Burmese green mango salad recipe makes one of Southeast Asia’s best green mango salads. Where the Thai green mango salad is notable for its spiciness, the Cambodian green mango salad for it funkiness, and the Vietnamese green mango salad for its fragrance, the Burmese green mango salad is the most balanced and textured.

In northern Southeast Asia, where green mango salads can be found in every country, with variations both across the region and within provinces, cities, towns, and villages within each country, this Burmese green mango salad recipe makes one of Southeast Asia’s best green mango salads.

Our Burmese green mango salad recipe is based on a salad we learnt to make in a cooking class in Myanmar and a Burmese green mango salad recipe recipe that I’ve adapted from my favourite Burmese cookbook, Mi Mi Khaing’s Cook and Entertain the Burmese Way, dating to 1978. It’s a charming book that’s become very precious to me this year, as who knows when we’ll get back to Myanmar.

This Burmese green mango salad recipe is next in our series of recipes from Myanmar intended to draw attention to the tragic situation in the country, because, frustratingly, events in Myanmar have largely disappeared from the pages of most mainstream news publications.

So far we’ve published recipes for a classic Burmese chicken curry, Mi Mi Khaing’s homemade curry powder, an Indian-style Burmese curry, Burmese street food-style fried chicken, Burmese coconut rice, Burmese raw cabbage salad, a Shan vermicelli noodle salad and a Shan tomato salad recipe. Older recipes on the site include a Burmese egg curry and ohn no khao swe, one of our favourite broths from Myanmar.

If you’re not aware of the situation in Myanmar, in February a coup d’état ousted the democratically elected government, which inspired a nationwide civil disobedience movement, to which the military responded with extraordinary brutality, violence against peaceful protestors, raids on homes and abduction of activists, massacres in the streets, and airstrikes on villages, resulting in thousands of deaths of innocent civilians, including frontline workers.

We’ll soon be publishing a dedicated guide to how to help the people of Myanmar and after we do, we’ll continue to share recipes for our favourite dishes from Myanmar with links to the guide. Until then, we’ll highlight organisations that need your support, such as Myanmar Now. The military regime is targeting journalists and the independent news site desperately needs donations to continue its essential reporting work.

Now let me tell you about this Burmese green mango salad recipe.

Burmese Green Mango Salad Recipe for Southeast Asia’s Best Green Mango Salad

From our balcony on the third floor of an apartment block in the centre of Cambodia’s northern city of Siem Reap, we see green: lush tropical vegetation flourishes in gardens and backyards, crimson bougainvillea drips over fences, lofty coconut palms tower over wooden houses and shade hotel swimming pools and school grounds, and everywhere there are mango trees.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that in the tropical areas of the northern Southeast Asian countries of Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam most homes with gardens would have a mango tree in their yard. You’ll even find mango trees in parks and gardens in the busy centres of capital cities such as Bangkok, Saigon, Phnom Penh, and Yangon.

So, it should be no surprise that mango features in so many Southeast Asian dishes and that every northern Southeast Asian cuisine has a green mango salad of some kind. Of all the Southeast Asian green mango salads, this Burmese green mango salad recipe makes one of my favourite green mango salads.

Burmese Green Mango Salad Recipe. Copyright © 2021 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

While I’m very fond of Cambodia’s green mango salads (I especially adore the Cambodian green mango salad with smoked fish) and I do enjoy the family of salads known here as ‘boks’, which are pounded in a mortar and pestle, I have to confess that after a decade of living in Southeast Asia and two decades travelling in the region, I’m not in love with pounded salads when the ingredients are so smashed that they’re drowning in their juices.

Which partly explains why I prefer the texture of a salad that’s somewhere in between a pounded and tossed salad and why I have a soft spot for Myanmar’s salads, especially the Shan salads and Burmese salads. I really love their texture and balance.

In my post on Mi Mi Khaing’s Burmese raw cabbage salad recipe, I shared her secrets to making salads – mixing them by hand, called ‘lethoke, which is the name of that genre of salad, and achieving a balance of flavour, consistency, colour, and fragrance.

I also provided a list of the ingredients from each category that she encourages cooks to select from in order to create the perfect salad. If you follow Mi Mi Khaing’s guide you really can’t go wrong and I’m going to come back to that in another post.

This Burmese green mango salad is comprised of ingredients from each of Mi Mi Khaing’s categories – fish sauce for saltiness, shrimp paste for a “heavier taste” she considers essential, a sour fruit (in this case, green mango), sesame seeds and shrimp powder or ground dried shrimp to counteract moistness (and in my opinion, provide texture), oil for ‘blending’ (or combining) flavours, and the green chillies, shallots, crispy fried onions, and fresh mint for fragrance, colour and finish.

Now let me share a few tips to making this Burmese green mango salad recipe.

Burmese Green Mango Salad Recipe. Copyright © 2021 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Tips to Making this Burmese Green Mango Salad Recipe

I only have a few tips to making this Burmese green mango salad recipe starting with mangoes. You will need green mangoes. Green mangoes are not only unripe mangoes, they’re a particular kind of mango that never turns orange.

Green mango skin always stays green and the fresh inside is actually yellow, not green. When it’s unripe it’s the flesh is firm and pale lemon to deep lemon colour and when it ripens the flesh is very yellow and soft. It has a lovely flavour actually but it’s very different to the mango that most people know.

One change I’ve made is instead of using raw onions or raw shallots, I’ve use pickled pink shallots, but you can use either.

The recipe calls for shrimp paste and fish sauce, which would result in quite a funky flavoured dish if that funkiness wasn’t offset by the other flavours and textures of sour, tart, spicy, sweet, crunchy, and crispy.

When you taste the dish, if it tastes too sour or too tart, add more sugar or spice; if it tastes too funky, add more spice; if it tastes too much of green mango, add more texture and fragrance. Always taste and adjust the seasoning to suit your palate.

Having said all that, and despite my opinion of the salad and my view that it’s more balanced than other green mango salads, this Burmese green mango salad recipe is intended to make a salad that is bright and sharp to accompany those rich oily Burmese curries, so don’t change things too much. When you eat a little curry and a little salad, you’ll realise they’re a perfect match.

Burmese Green Mango Salad Recipe

Burmese Green Mango Salad Recipe. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Burmese Green Mango Salad Recipe

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This Burmese green mango salad recipe makes one of Southeast Asia’s best green mango salads. Where the Thai green mango salad is notable for its spiciness, the Cambodian green mango salad for it funkiness, and the Vietnamese green mango salad for its fragrance, the Burmese green mango salad is the most balanced and textured.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 0 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes
Course: Dinner, Lunch, Salad, Side Dish
Cuisine: Burmese, Myanmar
Servings: 2
Calories: 234kcal
Author: Lara Dunston

Ingredients

  • 2 green mangoes
  • ¼ tsp shrimp paste
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil or peanut oil
  • 1 tbsp vinegar
  • 1 tbsp fish sauce
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • ¼ tsp sea salt optional/to taste
  • 1 purple shallot / small red onion diced, quick pickled
  • 1-2 long green medium-hot chillies sliced, deseeded
  • 1 tbsp dried shrimp ground in a mortar
  • 2 tbsp roasted sesame seeds mix of white and black
  • 2 tbsp crispy fried shallots
  • 2 tbsp fresh mint leaves

Instructions

  • Peel the green mangoes, cut off each mango cheek either side of the side, then finely slice the mango pieces into batons.
  • Scoop the teaspoon of shrimp paste onto a piece of foil and bake in the oven or lay the foil on a fry pan and heat for a few minutes until fragrant.
  • To make the dressing, transfer the shrimp paste to a small mixing bowl, then add the oil, vinegar, fish sauce, and sugar and combine well. Taste and add the optional salt if needed.
  • To a large mixing bowl, add the mangoes, sliced long green chillies, half of the ground dried shrimp, and one tablespoon of each of the roasted sesame seeds, crispy fried shallots, and fresh mint leaves, then add the dressing and combine well.
  • Transfer to a salad bowl or serving plate, and sprinkle on the remaining sesame seeds, crispy fried shallots, and fresh mint leaves.
  • Serve with Burmese curries, rice, and a relish or two.

Nutrition

Calories: 234kcal | Carbohydrates: 41g | Protein: 10g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 91mg | Sodium: 1362mg | Potassium: 515mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 33g | Vitamin A: 2455IU | Vitamin C: 81mg | Calcium: 158mg | Iron: 3mg

Please do let us know if you make this Burmese green mango salad recipe as we’d love to know how it turns out for you.

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If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

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It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

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Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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