Since there were a couple of different mangoes in the house, I felt like using some in a salad. I was also curious about trying out tea in a salad dressing so concocted this – Salad Colombo. Why Salad Colombo? Because I used locally produced ingredients from different parts of the country brought together in Colombo. So, why not Salad Colombo? 🙂
I am taking this crunchy, tangy, bitter-sweet salad over to Angie’s FF#122, co-hosted this week by Aruna@Aharam and Mollie@The Frugal Hausfrau and for the first time, the party at Throwback Thursday #44, hosted by Quinn@Dad What’s 4 Dinner, Mollie@The Frugal Hausfrau, Carlee@Cooking with Carlee, Meaghan@4 Sons ‘R’ Us and Alli@Tornadough Alli.
I have been listening to Coldplay the whole day so decided to feature a song I liked.
Hope you enjoy the salad and the featured song for this week.
Salad Colombo
Ingredients:
- Lettuce leaves
- Mango – ½ (large) or 1 (small)
- Pomegranate – 2 tbsp
Pomegranate and lime infused Orange pekoe tea dressing:
- Lime/ orange juice – 1 tbsp
- Pomegranate juice – 1 tsp
- Tea – 1 – 2 tsp
- Salt and pepper, to taste (optional)
Method
- Clean and chop up the lettuce leaves and arrange on a plate or bowl.
- Add sliced mango and pomegranate to the plate.
- Prepare the salad dressing by preparing a strong black tea and transferring about 2 tsp to a little bowl.
- Add the freshly processed pomegranate juice to the tea. Let it sit for a few minutes before adding the lime juice. (I prefer lime to orange juice for the dressing)
- If you wish, add salt and pepper, to taste. I didn’t add any in my version preferring the tanginess of the lime to be enough but my mother preferred adding a pinch of salt and pepper.
- Drizzle the dressing over the salad and serve immediately.
A Taste of Sri Lankan cuisine 
What a lovely salad Ahila; it looks so refreshing. Love the song too! 😉
Thanks, Linda. These days, I am experimenting with black tea in food. 🙂
Lovely flavours, and great song 🙂
Thanks, Elaine. Have a lovely weekend! 🙂
And you xx
Pekoe tea in the dressing – how interesting and new to me – but as soon as I saw it, I thought “Of course!” You know I’ll be making this! Happy Fiesta Friday!!
Mollie
Since trying out the tea dressing, both my mother and I have been making slight variations of this salad. We like it a lot. Happy Fiesta Friday and thanks for co-hosting this week, Mollie!
🙂
Love the colors Avila!! I never thought of mango and pomegranate together, but it’s so pretty! (and love the pomegranate in the dressing!) Hope you’re in the middle of a relaxing weekend! xo
Thanks, Rhonda. I hope you are having a lovely weekend as well.
Nice refreshing salad Ahila! Love mangoes! The dressing sounds really interesting with the tea in it!
I am going through a black tea phase, Indu 😉
🙂 good idea to get a caffeine kick from your salad too 🙂
What a fresh salad, Ahila! Happy FF
Thanks, Aruna, and for co-hosting FF #122!
Lovely salad combo;))
What a fresh looking salad and the dressing sounds great! Thanks for sharing at Throwback Thursday!
Thanks, Carlee.
I had to stop by and say thanks for sharing this at Throwback Thursday, too!
Mollie
Thanks, Mollie. I wanted to participate in Throwback Thursday and since it mentioned that I needed to share something I prepared, I decided to share my favourite salad of the month. The rest of the recipes this month were my mother’s.