The Art of Creating a Delicious Mango Strawberry Salad with Chicken and Goat Cheese

As we begin our culinary adventure today, we're going to tackle a dish that combines some unique flavors and textures, all while having fun with it. Our goal is to create a mouth-watering mango strawberry salad with chicken and goat cheese. The process starts with peeling and skinning the mango, taking care not to waste any of this delicious fruit. We'll remove the tail and round side, and then cut it up into small pieces.

To balance out the sweetness of the mango, we're going to add some tangy flavors to our salad. First, we need to cook the chicken breast in the oven at 200°F for about 15 minutes. This will ensure that the chicken is cooked through and ready to be added to our salad. While the chicken is cooking, let's focus on creating a delicious dressing using the mango as the base. We'll blend together some balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt, and pepper to create a sharp and tangy sauce.

The key to this dressing is that it should be really strong, so when we let it down with our salad, we get a good balance of flavors. We want to taste the sweetness of the mango, the sharpness of the vinegar, and the saltiness of the cheese. To achieve this, we'll add some balsamic vinegar, two cloves of garlic, and about one and a half tablespoons of olive oil. Once we've blended everything together, we'll stop there and let it sit for a bit to allow all the flavors to meld together.

Next, we need to prepare our goat cheese. This soft cheese is salty and creamy, making it the perfect complement to our sweet fruits. We'll cut it into small pieces, just like our mango, and make sure there's plenty of it in our salad. The beautiful thing about this salad is that we can store it in a jar in the fridge for up to two weeks, allowing us to enjoy it whenever we want.

To add some crunch to our salad, we'll include some pecans or peanuts. These nuts will provide a nice contrast to the soft textures of our goat cheese and fruits. We'll also need to find some fresh greens to add some bitterness to our salad. Rocket and red chard are perfect options for this dish, as they're slightly peppery and bitter.

Now that we have all our ingredients prepared, it's time to bring everything together. We'll start by placing a layer of salad leaves in the bottom of our bowl, followed by our dressing, mango pieces, goat cheese, pecans or peanuts, and finally some cooked chicken breast. To finish off the dish, we'll add some crusty bread on the side for us to use as a base.

The final result is truly impressive. We have a colorful salad with a mix of textures and flavors that will satisfy even the most discerning palate. The combination of sweet mango, tangy goat cheese, crunchy pecans, and savory chicken breast is absolute perfection. And let's not forget the dressing – it's the glue that holds everything together.

So, have we pulled this off? It seems that our hard work has paid off, as each bite of our salad is a culinary masterpiece. The flavors are unique and delicious, and we're confident that anyone who tries it will fall in love with this dish just like we did. So go ahead, try it out for yourself, and don't be afraid to get creative – after all, that's what cooking is all about!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhave you ever wanted your dessert and Main coost mixed into one then you've come to the right place this is our strawberry and mango chicken salad now this is my confused face Ben what are you doing it's got some pretty crazy flavors going on here but they really do work in the salad we're going to do a mango and strawberry salad with goats cheese and peans and it's all served with some warm strips of chicken so we're going to start with our chicken Jamie if you can just season our breasts and then a little bit of water in the bottom of the tray water I like cuz then it bakes the top but it also just stops the whole thing from drying out and if you can put that into the oven 200° for about 15 minutes to cook that through and we'll serve that on top of our salad at the end meanwhile Barry we can focus on our mango okay so if you cann't you might need to go around the other side so all we need to do is skin it top tail and then skin round the Mango's going to do two things we want the Flesh in the salad we're also going to use half it to make a dressing it's a really cool dressing we just need to blend up a few things Jam if you can put in two tablespoons of balsamic vinegar two clovs one and a half that's five perfect about the same of olive oil cool like that and then salt and pepper again and then the basis of this is a really sweet fruit so our mango if you can just hack up maybe that one of those pieces into a few bits awesome so our mango goes in there wow this is a we are you sure bab are you feeling all right here you wait you wait okay you wait go you want it nice and smooth and that's going to form our dressing and just stop there and taste that okay one for you and one for you baby food it's really strong remember with dressings it should be really strong so when you let it down with all the salad you get you get the sweet you get the sharp vinegar and you get the salt and pepper wow that is zingy I'm confused that really works so that's the dressing we'll need later on we'll leave that to one side the rest of our mango but if you can just cut it up into pieces nice and thin essentially we're looking for bits like that in our salad and Jamie you're going to cut similar size pieces out of our strawberries Co we're looking for pieces like that I guess y okay so do maybe six or seven of those cool and meanwhile I've got some goats cheese now obviously goats cheese is a soft cheese it's kind of it's kind of salty it's it's creamy so with the sweet fruits it works really nicely I love ghost cheese I love strawberries and I love mango and chicken and I love chicken but I've never had them in the same dish well the first for everything and you should never knock it till you've tried it so we got some goats cheese pieces there now you do like goat cheese make sure there's plenty of that in there and now we just need to mix the whole thing together so a bowl some salad leaves and here I've got some rocket and some red chards so slightly peppery slightly bitter leaves okay they're going to go in there some of our dressing you don't want to overdress it because it is very sharp you got lots of other flavors going quite a casual V so don't like the gross no s smart casual not too sure so that's probably enough the beautiful thing about what's left is that will go in a jar in the fridge and stay there absolutely fine addressing whenever you want it for a good couple of weeks so get our fruit in there as well Y and we'll start to just bring the whole thing together now when you're cooking it's all about textures as well so we've got the leaves we've got the soft fruit we've got the soft cheese but we do also need some crunch So Jamie if you can just have some peans our pecans can go in and our goats cheese pieces So Jamie if you can grab uh wooden plate underneath it would be perfect got that's full for serving it with as well a nice chunk of bread we cut plenty of this salad on top of here and look at all those flavors it does look aming you can hear the nuts land you got the fruit you got the sharp vinegar from belic y absolutely awesome now there's only one thing left to go on that it's our chicken so if you can get the chicken out the oven can here we go now take one of our chicken breasts that's a big breast cut that up with the vein like that there we go so loads of chicken really succulent and we'll just put some of that on the side there still really hot and steaming it's healthy it's balanced it's got some wacky flavors really do work it's our mango and strawberry salad sorted make sure you get a bit of everything otherwise it doesn't quite work wait a minute have you pulled this off it's good n you've actually pulled this off mhm it's definitely strawberry it's definitely mango it's defin bit ghost cheese and a bit of chicken in our mouth PE can a bit of Rocket my brain says I like it I urge you to try this right now this really works and upload the picture to Facebook so colorful amazing we want to see it try and beat my thumbnail come on thumbnail thumbnail is ithave you ever wanted your dessert and Main coost mixed into one then you've come to the right place this is our strawberry and mango chicken salad now this is my confused face Ben what are you doing it's got some pretty crazy flavors going on here but they really do work in the salad we're going to do a mango and strawberry salad with goats cheese and peans and it's all served with some warm strips of chicken so we're going to start with our chicken Jamie if you can just season our breasts and then a little bit of water in the bottom of the tray water I like cuz then it bakes the top but it also just stops the whole thing from drying out and if you can put that into the oven 200° for about 15 minutes to cook that through and we'll serve that on top of our salad at the end meanwhile Barry we can focus on our mango okay so if you cann't you might need to go around the other side so all we need to do is skin it top tail and then skin round the Mango's going to do two things we want the Flesh in the salad we're also going to use half it to make a dressing it's a really cool dressing we just need to blend up a few things Jam if you can put in two tablespoons of balsamic vinegar two clovs one and a half that's five perfect about the same of olive oil cool like that and then salt and pepper again and then the basis of this is a really sweet fruit so our mango if you can just hack up maybe that one of those pieces into a few bits awesome so our mango goes in there wow this is a we are you sure bab are you feeling all right here you wait you wait okay you wait go you want it nice and smooth and that's going to form our dressing and just stop there and taste that okay one for you and one for you baby food it's really strong remember with dressings it should be really strong so when you let it down with all the salad you get you get the sweet you get the sharp vinegar and you get the salt and pepper wow that is zingy I'm confused that really works so that's the dressing we'll need later on we'll leave that to one side the rest of our mango but if you can just cut it up into pieces nice and thin essentially we're looking for bits like that in our salad and Jamie you're going to cut similar size pieces out of our strawberries Co we're looking for pieces like that I guess y okay so do maybe six or seven of those cool and meanwhile I've got some goats cheese now obviously goats cheese is a soft cheese it's kind of it's kind of salty it's it's creamy so with the sweet fruits it works really nicely I love ghost cheese I love strawberries and I love mango and chicken and I love chicken but I've never had them in the same dish well the first for everything and you should never knock it till you've tried it so we got some goats cheese pieces there now you do like goat cheese make sure there's plenty of that in there and now we just need to mix the whole thing together so a bowl some salad leaves and here I've got some rocket and some red chards so slightly peppery slightly bitter leaves okay they're going to go in there some of our dressing you don't want to overdress it because it is very sharp you got lots of other flavors going quite a casual V so don't like the gross no s smart casual not too sure so that's probably enough the beautiful thing about what's left is that will go in a jar in the fridge and stay there absolutely fine addressing whenever you want it for a good couple of weeks so get our fruit in there as well Y and we'll start to just bring the whole thing together now when you're cooking it's all about textures as well so we've got the leaves we've got the soft fruit we've got the soft cheese but we do also need some crunch So Jamie if you can just have some peans our pecans can go in and our goats cheese pieces So Jamie if you can grab uh wooden plate underneath it would be perfect got that's full for serving it with as well a nice chunk of bread we cut plenty of this salad on top of here and look at all those flavors it does look aming you can hear the nuts land you got the fruit you got the sharp vinegar from belic y absolutely awesome now there's only one thing left to go on that it's our chicken so if you can get the chicken out the oven can here we go now take one of our chicken breasts that's a big breast cut that up with the vein like that there we go so loads of chicken really succulent and we'll just put some of that on the side there still really hot and steaming it's healthy it's balanced it's got some wacky flavors really do work it's our mango and strawberry salad sorted make sure you get a bit of everything otherwise it doesn't quite work wait a minute have you pulled this off it's good n you've actually pulled this off mhm it's definitely strawberry it's definitely mango it's defin bit ghost cheese and a bit of chicken in our mouth PE can a bit of Rocket my brain says I like it I urge you to try this right now this really works and upload the picture to Facebook so colorful amazing we want to see it try and beat my thumbnail come on thumbnail thumbnail is it\n"