Crisp and flavorful Tropical Coleslaw to serve with your grilled meats. This slaw is bursting with sweetness and citrus flavors from mango and lime juice. It also goes perfectly on tacos and sandwiches providing additional layers of flavor.
TROPICAL COLESLAW
During the summer months, I try to come up with more cold side dishes and salads because noone wants to stand over a hot stove all night. It’s hot enough outside and hot enough when you have to stand over the grill to also stand over the stove.
Coleslaw, cold salads, broccoli salads, fruit and berry salads, all require no cook time at all, in addition to being served cold. Those are the perfect side dishes for hot summer outdoor parties.
This Tropical Slaw is perfect for summer time as well, not just because it’s easily and quickly prepared without any cooking, but it’s also packed with delicious tropical flavors. This slaw is made with juicy, ripe mango, fresh lime juice, cashews, fresh herbs, and spiced with some cayenne pepper.
But, barbecue parties is not the only good time to serve this side dish. This slaw is amazing on top of tacos and sandwiches. I served this slaw with some pulled pork tacos last week and it was great together.
While making the pulled pork, I added some flavors that would be complimentary to the slaw. I added some lime juice and chipotle chili powder to the cooked pulled pork. I also cooked the pork shoulder rubbed with some brown sugar spice mix for a touch of sweetness. That went very well with the coleslaw as well. I will make sure to share these tacos in the next couple of days!
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Tropical Coleslaw
Ingredients
- 1/2 purple cabbage
- 1/2 green cabbage
- 2 medium carrots
- 1/2 cup chopped green onion
- Juice from 1 large lime
- 2 Tbsp sugar
- 2 Tbsp minced cilantro
- 1 large ripe mango
- 1 cup cashews
- 1/4 -1/3 cup olive oil
- Pinch of cayenne pepper to taste
Instructions
- Slice cabbage very thin and add it to a large mixing bowl.
- Peel and grate the carrots. Add grated carrots to the cabbage.
- Peel and chop mango meat and add it to the bowl with cabbage.
- Add chopped green onions, lime juice, sugar, minced cilantro, olive oil, and some cayenne pepper. Gently mix everything well.
- Add cashews and gently mix them in.
- Serve right away or refrigerate until ready to serve.
- **Note: the exact amount of slaw will depend of the size of the cabbage.
Nutrition
Gabbie says
Love this recipe!
Jodi S. says
Love, love, love this recipe.
LyubaB says
Thank you, Jodi! I am so pleased you love it! 🙂
Tracy says
Is this ok prepared ahead ( with adding the cashews right before serving?)
lyuba says
Hi Tracey!
It should be just fine. Slaw usually would get softer as it sits due to the dressing. What you can do to keep it crisp, is actually add the dressing and cashews before serving. Just prepare dressing and you can keep it in a separate small container. Mix them together before servings. (Dressing is pretty much everything but cabbage, carrots, onion, mango, and cashews.)
I hope you enjoy it!
Kelly says
Do you have nutritional info calculated for this recipe or am i just not seeing it? Thank you!
lyuba says
Hi Kelly!
I’m sorry I didn’t see your comment earlier. I will add it right now so come back and check it in a few minutes 🙂