I just learned about an event hosted by Chris of Mele Cotte called Cinco de Mango and I am submitting this post to the event. If you wanna know more about mangoes and get more delicious recipes check out the National Mango Board website. Cinco the mayo is just around the corner and it is time to celebrate the only time Mexico won a battle (LOL) We are better lovers than warriors 
I am a winter person. I am the happiest person in the world when the days are cold, gloomy and snowy. In those kind of days I like to sit next to the window with a book while the snow covers the world outside. But those days are over in this part of the world, unfortunately. This last week we had “gorgeous” days (why can’t cloudy days be gorgeous, too?) with temperatures in the 60′s and 70′s (that’s around 20° C for the rest of the world) But I am not sad that summer is just around the corner. That’s because summer is the season for my favorite fruit ever. Ladies and gentleman, please put your hands together for the gorgeous, sweet, juicy and delicious Manila mango.
My mom and I love this fruit so much that we used to eat a 40 pound case of mangoes almost entirely by ourselves every week during the summer. Every Tuesday, when my dad did the shopping for the restaurant, we waited patiently for him to arrive. We then separated the mangoes from ripe-and-ready-to-eat-today to not-quite-ready-this-can-wait-a-couple-of-days.
Mangoes are already hitting the markets and grocery stores and I am ready for them. I found these gorgeous manila mangoes in my local Mexican market and I couldn’t resist to get a couple of pounds to start cooking whit them (and eating them just plainly, too)
Note: The stuffed chicken was inspired by this Sue’s (of We Are Not Martha) post.
Stuffed chicken with mango guacamole
Printable recipe
Makes 2-4 servings
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 25-30 minutes
Method: Baking
For this recipe you will need:
- 2 chicken breasts, flattened
- 2 slices of ham
- 4-6 oz pepper jack cheese in strips
- Some fresh spinach leaves
- salt, pepper, parsley flakes, oregano (optional)
- 1 small ripe avocado
- 2 ripe Manila mangoes
- 1 TBSP chopped cilantro
- 1 jalapeño pepper, deveined
- 2 Roma tomatoes
- the juice of 1 large lime
Preparation:
- Preheat oven to 375° F (190° C)
- Put a slice of ham, a couple of slices of cheese and a couple of spinach leaves over one of the flattened chicken breasts.
- Roll and hold with toothpicks.
- Drizzle olive oil over a cookie sheet. Put rolls on cookie sheet, drizzle some olive oil over them and season with salt, pepper, parsley flakes and oregano.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes
- In a food processor blend mangoes, avocado, cilantro, jalapeño pepper, tomatoes, lime juice and salt to taste.
- When the chicken comes out of the oven serve with Mexican rice, spoon some mango guacamole over the chicken and enjoy.
About this recipe:
- I don’t think there’s anything I’d change to this recipe. The mango guacamole was sweet and spicy, just perfect, and it blended perfectly with the chicken.
- You may use more or less jalapeños to adjust spiciness.
This is the first of many mango recipes that I will be posting during the summer. I might not like the miserable heat and humidity of Ohio’s summers, but I love the fact that fresh fruits and vegetables are finding their way up here.
Buen provecho!
34 Replies
Ai que rico!!!! Ben, I would do this for dinner… but where would my diet go? I can still do the chicken breasts with the stuffing and maybe a lighter sauce (avocado is too high in calories). Also, wanted to ask you, how much does a mango cost there? I bought a couple this past weekend for the joust recipe and I paid 6 Euros per Mango!!!!!!!!!!! They come from Venezuela. That’s so expensive!
Un abrazo, amigo
Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 8:54 am
What an inspiring dish Ben. If you were participating in the Joust I’m sure you could have made it work for the 3 ingredients. The mango guacamole is pure genius!!
Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 9:33 am
I’m a winter person with a love of summer produce.
Your dish looks delicious!
Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 9:39 am
Mangos are cheap here. I got 2 for $1. and they are my favorite. They can go with just about anyhting. This dish looks fantastic.
Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 12:46 pm
What a great use for mangoes, Ben — it looks great! I love the Manila mangoes too, they are so sweet and creamy. When I find them at a good price I buy a bunch of them. For summer treat, blend them with ice cream to make a wonderful mango milkshake … yum!
Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Creative recipe, looks great. (saw the picture over on Gather.com)
Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
I really like the falvour combinations of this dish Ben. Adding the mango to the guacomole sounds like an incredible idea.
Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
this looks great! Love the sweetnes of the mango with the savory flavors!
Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 2:07 pm
mango guacamole? are you kidding me? i would lick that plate clean. fantastic!
Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Mango guacamole sounds good. I’ve been thinking about incorporating fruit into dinners. This would fit the bill!
I was initially annoyed with having to deal with a box of mangos from my grandmother last summer, but now I’m seeing the light.
Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 2:41 pm
This dish really looks so good. I’ve never cooked mango before and I am so tempted to try this recipe but without cilantro and lime (can’t find them easily) I am not sure if it will come out right.
Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Those look really tasty. I really like the sound of the mango guacamole!
Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 6:17 pm
I can already taste the array of flavour popping around in my mouth. I like what you’ve done with this (in case my mom brings me yet another case of mango).
Posted on April 21st, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Very original and honestly, I would really love to try this one. Starring it along with about another 100 starred items but hope to come to this one before june, right?
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:37 am
Ben you’re killing me here with this dish! You are so darn talented! I love this!
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 7:59 am
Before I could stop myself the first words out of my mouth were “Holy Crap!” My mom is a total mango AND guacamole addict. As in, when I make fresh guacamole she spreads it on a piece of bread and eats it like a sandwich. She is going to freaking DIE when I show her this.
As usual- great post and THANKS!
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Oh my gosh, Ben, that looks fabulous!
I’ve passed along the E for Excellent Award to you. You may have already received it, but you still deserve it. Great blog!
And I tagged you for a six word memoir–you can see the rules on my blog, and you can choose to play or not, up to you.
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:23 pm
We never had mangoes growing up, but I have fallen in love with them the past few years. This dish sounds amazing!
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I love this blog and this recipe looks real yummy……”drool”
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 1:05 am
Love the mango guacamole- how fresh is that?
yummmm
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Mmmm…very refreshing. The photographs got my tastebuds going! Did you actually eat that many mangoes when you were growing up? Goodness! I have three sitting on my counter that I need to do something with and a salsa crossed my mind. Our mangoes are the green/red kind that remind me of those flocks of parrots that fly wild here. I paid a dollar for each one at a small market. Not bad!
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I love mango’s and here we have the HEIDI variety, which is huge and super-sweet. This is a very interesting twist on an old Mexican favorite. Lovely photos.
Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 1:01 am
hmmm i’ve always wanted to make stuffed anything…let me try this soon…and incorporating guacamole? tat’s just brilliant! and i am so into the tantalizing bowl of red rice lurking from the background…:)
i am a winter person too…maybe because hong kong summer is just too anger-provokingly balmy…i love staring into a perfect-bright summer day through a window from a perfectly air conditioned room (i know i know…not environmentally friendly sob sob)
Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 1:47 am
Ben, that looks way too good!…we are eagerly waiting for the mangoes to hit our markets too. This year its been little slow to appear! But I can relate so much to what you said about separating the ripe and the soon to be riped ones!..by the way that rice dish too looks great..whats it?
Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Ben! That looks scrumptious. It’s absolutely perfect.
Question: Are mangoes perfectly ripe when they’re not green anymore?
Here mangos are kind of green and red. They don’t seem as yellow. I’ve just had bad luck with over and under ripe mangos.
Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
I am touch and go about mangoes but this looks too good to pass up!
Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Holy moly this sounds amazing. The mango guac alone needs to be made asap….it’ll go great with some homemade baked tortilla chips! Excellent recipe, thanks!
- The Peanut Butter Boy
Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
The mango guacamole looks just perfect , i have a mango tree in my house and the fruits are just about ripening now. i’d surly try thsi recipe out.
I really love the food on your space , it always looks so deiclious and warm and homey !
Posted on April 27th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
this looks SUPER DUPER-dee delicious!!!!!! What a super creative way to mix chicken and mango together! This is something I shall definitely make!
Posted on April 28th, 2008 at 9:22 am
This looks like my kind of dinner. Avocado and Mango….hmmmmm *heaven*! (I think I just heard some singing from above.hee hee). Thanks so much for your participation in Cinco de Mango!
Posted on April 28th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Wow, Ben, this looks really delicious! Mangoes (y mangas) are readily available here, though I’ve never seen them so yellow! Between your post and Elle’s mango wings…I’m thinking mangoes are in my future. Gracias por la receta!
Posted on April 28th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
This looks so so good. Suddenly I’m seeing mangoes all over the place, and they’re being used in awesome ways that I never thought of. I simply must get on board with this.
Posted on April 28th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Mango guacamole is a great idea and one I would never have come up with on my own.
Ben, you may want to consider joining me in the Pacific Northwest, very cool and gloomy, perfect for staying inside and curling up with a good book
Posted on May 5th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Just found this post through recipes2share. I LOVE mangoes, and this looks absolutely delicious!
Posted on June 27th, 2008 at 8:04 am
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