African Mango Salad

Mango and pineapple dressed with fruit juice, served on lettuce and finished with strawberries. It is a fresh fruit salad rather than a savoury one, and it is presented as an accompaniment to a main dish. The page needs a caveat before anything else. Its title says African, but no country, region or tradition is named anywhere in the source, and nothing in the ingredients points to one, mango, pineapple and strawberry are grown and eaten on every continent. The word African here appears to be a label rather than an attribution, and it has been flagged as such rather than dressed up into a heritage that the source does not document. What the combination does have going for it is the contrast it sets up. Ripe mango is soft, dense and sweet; pineapple is fibrous and sharply acidic; strawberry sits between them. Served on lettuce leaves rather than in a bowl, it reads as a starter rather than a dessert, which is the one genuinely considered decision in the recipe. The source gives no quantities at all, every ingredient is listed as a bare name. The amounts below are working proportions rather than anything taken from it, and the source's recommendation of a particular branded mango peeler has not been carried across.