Spring is here!

Celebrate the beauty of the season by eating from Mother Nature’s glorious palette of fruit colors. Salsa is always a perfect nutrition choice for seasoning anything and everything … light, healthy and packed with disease-fighting plant chemicals called polyphenols — this is one condiment that should be a staple in your heart-healthy eating regimen.

Grilled Grouper with Fruit Salsa

Yield: 4 servings (serving size: one grouper filet with ~ 1 cup salsa)

• 2 ripe mangoes, peeled, pitted and diced



• 2 cups of red seedless grapes, halved
• ½ cup red onion, chopped
• 1 tablespoon fresh cilantro, chopped
• Juice from ½ a fresh lime
• ½ a medium sized jalapeño pepper, seeded and minced
• ¼  teaspoon salt
• 20 ounces of fresh grouper or a similar white-fleshed mild tasting fish
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon pepper
• Fresh lemon wedges, for garnish

For the salsa: In a large mixing bowl, combine the mangoes, grapes, onion, cilantro, lime juice, jalapeno pepper and salt and mix well. Cover with plastic wrap and chill until serving fish.

For the grouper: Preheat grill to high heat. Rinse grouper and pat dry. Pour a small amount of olive oil on both sides of the fillets and coat lightly. Sprinkle both sides with salt and pepper to taste. Grill grouper approximately 5 minutes per side until fish is no longer pink on the inside and flakes easily with a fork.

Serve grouper immediately, topped with salsa over each filet. Garnish with fresh lemon slices.

Nutritional Information per Serving (1 grouper filet with ¼ of salsa recipe or ~ 1 cup salsa):

• Food weight: 3.5,
• Calories: 329,
• Fat: 9 g,
• Cholesterol: 52 mg,
• Sodium: 514 mg,
• Carbohydrate: 34 g,
• Dietary Fiber: 3 g,
• Sugars: 15 g,
• Protein: 29 g

Recipe Source: An excerpt from the book Cholesterol Down by Janet Bond Brill, Ph.D., R.D., LDN; Published by Three Rivers Press; December 2006;$13.95US/$17.95CAN; 978-0-307-33911-9 Copyright © 2006 Janet Brill, Ph.D. To learn more about this book please visit CholesterolDownBook.com.