Make this zesty fresh mango salsa recipe with dragon fruit and use to serve over fish tacos or fish fillets. Serve as a quick and colorful salsa appetizer with your favorite restaurant style tortilla chips. Chunks of ripe mango and juicy spotted cubes of white dragonfruit get tossed with zippy lime juice and a few other fresh ingredients to make a tangy mango salsa you can put over just about anything you can think of.

A Few Fresh Ingredients Make up this colorful salsa

Fresh cilantro, zesty lime juice, fresh heirloom tomato, and a little red onion all come together to add life, color, and bold flavor to our mango salsa in this easy recipe. Dragon fruit (also known as Pitaya) is a member of the cactus family. It adds a festive and colorful element to the mango salsa recipe.

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Dragon fruit also has a soft and juicy texture comparable to that of the kiwi fruit and is very mild in flavor. It adds a nice tropical twist to our easy mango salsa recipe blending in perfectly with our other fresh ingredients. It also adds a fun variety of color and texture to the finished salsa.

Serve This easy fresh Mango Salsa with salmon, Fish Tacos, Tilapia, or Your Favorite Grilled Fish

This tangy, salty, yet slightly sweet mango salsa with dragonfruit makes an easy topping for grilled salmon fillets, oven baked salmon, or even this quick chili lime salmon.

Serve this quick mango salsa over this light grilled tilapia with asparagus spears or your favorite white fish! Here you can see I’ve served my dragonfruit mango salsa over some quick pan-seared cod fillets that basically took this plain fish from bland to bright and boldly delicious in minutes!

Plus, if you happen to pick up any tropical fruits like these over the summer, this is a super simple and refreshing recipe you can use to toss ’em in!

To Make This Easy Dragon fruit Mango Salsa You’ll Need:

• Large Heirloom (or vine ripe) Tomato
• Ripe Mango (peeled and cubed)
• Dragon fruit (peeled and cubed)
• Red Onion (small diced)
• Minced Fresh Cilantro
• Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice
• Coarse Salt and Pepper for seasoning

Cubing and Cutting Fresh Tropical Fruit

If you’ve never worked with fresh dragon fruit before, don’t worry! Its flesh is soft, juicy, and tender. It’s very easy to peel and cut!

There is no large pit or seed in the center. The bright magenta pink skin on the outside peels easily and comes right off. Just slice in half and run your knife through to cube into small uniform pieces.

The same goes for cubing the mango. Cut into large pieces to the left and right side of the large pit inside the mango. Run your knife through the large pieces of mango leaving the skin on while making vertical and horizontal scores (being careful not to cut through the skin).

Push the fruit inside out by pressing it up from the bottom and voila! You have quick cubed mango chunks! Run your knife across the skin to remove the cubed fruit and collect in a medium bowl.

Make Fresh Dragonfruit Mango Salsa

Add the cubed dragon fruit to the same bowl with the mango. Now toss in the diced fresh tomato along with the chopped red onion.

Add Fresh Cilantro and Seasonings

To this mixture add two tablespoons of fresh minced cilantro and season with coarse salt. I added around 1/4 teaspoon of coarse salt to my mixture with a little pinch of cracked pepper. If you like less salt, start with an 1/8 of a teaspoon (pinches) of coarse salt and continue adding until your desired level of seasoning is achieved.

Make Fresh Salsa Flavors Shine with Fresh Lime

Lastly, add in the fresh squeezed lime juice. This adds so much zest and vibrance to the rest of the mango salsa ingredients. The lime juice wakes everything up and makes it tangy, zesty, and bright!

I added about 1/4 teaspoon of fresh lime to our dragon fruit mango salsa recipe and it was enough to pull everything together and make it delicious. If you feel like it’s not coming through enough, add more as desired by squeezing in a wedge of fresh lime juice at a time, tossing together, and tasting.

Serve as a Festive Cinco De Mayo Appetizer or Enjoy with a light summer dinner

There’s really no wrong answer here and you can adjust the lime and salt to suit your desired taste. Taste the salsa as you go and make the adjustments if needed.

Serve this easy dragon fruit mango salsa for Cinco de Mayo with your favorite tortilla chips as a festive Mexican appetizer! Serve this easy mango salsa over grilled fish, leftover salmon, or even use to top off grilled chicken or your favorite salmon tacos!

The tangy lime, sweet mangos, juicy dragon fruit, fresh tomato, onion, and cilantro all make a vibrant mango salsa you can serve all summer long to use as an appetizer or topping.

What To Eat with this bright and fresh summer Salsa recipe:

• Serve this easy chunky salsa fresca over grilled tilapia
• Spoon this easy mango salsa over salmon fillets (or baked salmon)
• Use the fresh chunky salsa recipe as a topping over fish tacos (or use to top off easy grilled cod as I did above)
• Serve as an appetizer with your favorite restaurant style tortilla chips
• Top off grilled chicken breast or pan-seared chicken tenderloins with the salsa
• Pour over ripe and creamy avocado halves as a light vegetarian dinner
• Serve alongside your favorite chicken, beef, or cheese quesadillas!

Additionally, you might also add small diced jalapeño to make a spicy mango salsa. You can also toss in ripe avocado chunks to turn this into a quick mango avocado salsa. If you like a more traditional salsa or classic salsa, try this easy smashed guacamole with salsa fresca on top. For a spicier char-grilled salsa, try this tomatillo salsa verde!

DO pair all of these bright and fresh Mexican flavors with crisp Mexican beers like Modelo or Dos Equis or a good ‘ol Tecate!

DON’T skip the idea of a few tequila cocktails either! Cool and crisp blanco tequila drinks like a limey sparkling prosecco margarita, a blackberry watermelon tequila cocktail, a smashed strawberry mango margarita, or a blueberry Simply Limeade margarita just make everything complete…

To make this salsa and serve over fresh grilled fish, try this zesty grilled cod served with this same vibrant and fruity mango salsa on top!

Be sure to give this quick zesty fresh salsa recipe a try and serve over your favorite healthy light protein to turn it into a vibrant colorful meal in minutes!

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