Calypso Salad: Music to Your Taste Buds

Calypso Salad is a luscious blend of textures and colors. Mellow bananas, naturally sweet and creamy, are arranged with juicy sliced oranges, ripe melon, red grapes and shrimp or chunks of chicken to create a gorgeous salad that calls out for a special dressing.

The answer is a thick blend of mayonnaise combined with one ripe, pureed banana and the exotic flavor of chutney.

CALYPSO SALAD

1 cantaloupe, peeled and sliced into 4 rings

Crisp lettuce leaves

1 pound cooked shrimp or cooked chicken chunks

2 firm bananas, peeled and sliced

1 orange, peeled and sliced

1 pound red grapes, cut into clusters

Banana-Chutney Dressing

Arrange each cantaloupe ring on lettuce-lined salad plate. Fill centers with shrimp. Surround with banana and orange slices and grape clusters. Serve with Banana-Chutney Dressing. Makes 4 servings.

Banana-Chutney Dressing

1 ripe banana

1 cup mayonnaise

1/4 cup chutney

2 tablespoons lemon juice

Puree banana in blender. Add mayonnaise, chutney and lemon juice. Process until blended.