Salade de palmiste

Salade de palmiste is a Seychellois culinary delicacy that features heart of palms as the main ingredient. Apart from this gourmet item, other typical ingredients in the salad include green mangos, coconuts, avocados, green tomatoes, red bell peppers, coriander, and mint. All ingredients are finely cut and tossed together with a sweet and sour dressing based on ginger and lime. This specialty is often called millionaire’s salad because the removal of palm hearts is quite laborious and involves cutting down whole palm trees. The palm hearts were traditionally removed from an uncultivated or wild, single-stemmed palm trees, which resulted in the tree’s death. These days, however, this gourmet delicacy is commonly prepared with palm hearts from sustainably harvested palm trees.