My mother has recently become re-obsessed with the entire Pampered Chef franchise. This rekindled addiction, though, has added so many wonderful appliances and cookbooks to my kitchen. Today, we decided to create the mango salsa from the catalog. This salsa called for a jicama.
What is a jicama?
This. Is a jicama.
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| Cute little guy, right? |
Having never even heard of this vegetable, I was excited to taste it. Turns out, it doesn't have much flavor. Apparently it "absorbs the flavors around it". Kinda like a mushroom. But way better because mushrooms are disgusting. Jicama has an apple-ish texture, and is pretty pleasant. Goes very well for its purposes today!
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| The chopped, crunchy jicama. |
The salsa turned out delicious, and we used fresh peppers from my backyard. Its colors are gorgeous, and has a deliciously spicy kick. Personally, I'm a cracker girl, but my mom swears the chips are the way to go. Whatever the device.
It still tastes fabulous.
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| The finished salsa! And my feeble attempt at taking ok pictures.... |
From the Spring/Summer 2011 Pampered Chef catalog (without their product placement)
- 1 Large mango
- 1/2 small jicama (we used 1/4 of a giant one, because our little Walmart doesn't do interesting ingredients)
- 1/3 orange bell pepper
- 1/3 red bell pepper
- 1 jalapeno pepper, stemmed
- 1/3 small red onion
- 1 tbsp fresh lime juice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp cayenne, garlic salt, and taco seasoning
- Cut mango and remove skin. Peel jicama. Dice the mango, jicama, onion, and bell peppers into 1-in. pieces. Cut jalapeno in half, and remove all of the seeds.
- Combine mango, jicama, bell peppers, jalapeno, and onion in a bowl. Add lime juice and salt, mixing well. Sprinkle will seasoning, and enjoy!
Loved the texture and the crispness of this vegetable! We used it in our fajita vegetable mixture that was put on the grill, too! It absorbs the flavors of everything in the mixture ... especially the citrus!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!