Grilled Teriyaki Mango Skewers

This post was created in partnership with the National Mango Board. All opinions are our own. Ever tried mango skewers? These grilled terikyai mango skewers might be our new best summer grilling recipe! Seriously, the sweetness of the mango with savory veggies and a homemade teriyaki sauce are a match made in heaven. We made these grilled teriyaki mango skewers for a cookout and everyone kept picking the mangos off of the skewers because they were so, so good! The variety of mango we used was called the Honey mango: it’s a bit smaller and a little sweeter than the typical mango available here in the US. How to make grilled teriyaki mango skewers? Keep reading.

What are Honey mangos?

The variety of mango we used for these grilled teriyaki mango skewers is called Honey mangos, one of the six main varieties of mangos sold in the US. Four of those varieties are shown above! A few fun facts about Honey mangos:

When it’s ripe, the skin turns to a deep golden color and small wrinkles appear. So, wrinkled equals ripe! Honey mangos are also known as the Champagne mangos or Ataulfo mangos—so look for any of those names in the grocery.It’s smaller, sweeter and more tender than the varieties of mango more common in the US.One cup of diced mangos provides 100% of your daily vitamin C!

How to make mango skewers

Making these grilled teriyaki mango skewers is pretty simple—probably the hardest part cutting the mangos! To learn how to cut a mango, below is a fun video Alex and I put together showing the way that we cut mangos. (Note that to make the mango skewers, you’ll be cutting the mangos into larger pieces than the dice shown in the video, so that they’ll stay on the skewers instead of falling off.)

Video: How to cut a mango

Another tip for chopping veggies for skewers is that we also like to cut most of the veggies larger than you typically would dice them. For the red onion, cut it into wedges and thread a few layers of the onion onto the skewer (see above). Since the mango is the best part, we added proportionally more mango than veggies to each skewer.

How to make homemade teriyaki sauce

Somehow after 8 years of writing a food blog, Alex and I had never made homemade teriyaki sauce (gasp!). We were excited to use these grilled teriyaki mango skewers as an excuse to make our own recipe. Homemade teriyaki sauce is truly easy; our recipe uses only soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, and maple syrup. The mixture is heated and then a slurry of cornstarch is mixed in, which makes it thick and glossy. It can be made in about 5 minutes and the flavor is unreal. We’re never buying teriyaki sauce again! Let us know if you try these grilled mango skewers in the comments below!