A Summer Favorite
Corn Salad is such a huge summer season salad; it’s basic to make and tastes particularly contemporary with out hundreds of meals or fuss (and no cooking required)!
Summer is the finest time of yr to serve up contemporary salads and vegetables from the garden. While I actually have a really small garden, I also cease by means of means of the farmer’s markets to take pleasure in their harvests.
I don’t develop a ton of sorts of veggies in my itty bitty lawn space; typically carrots, zucchini (for the finest ever Easy Baked Zucchini), radishes, and inexperienced onions (and this yr I actually have a few beets). While my lawn is small, I at all times develop cherry tomatoes and typical tomatoes and hundreds of contemporary herbs.
How to Make Corn Salad
CORN: This Corn Salad recipe begins with a base of delicious candy corn (of course), when you've got time it’s price making grilled corn to make use of on this recipe it earlier than you cut it off the cob.
DRESSING: I then upload in a few contemporary veggies and toss all of it with a basic home made vinaigrette (and as soon as in a whereas I upload in a sprinkle of crumbled feta or blue cheese).
While I don’t devour a ton of salt, corn is one in every of these issues that quite hundreds screams for a sprinkling of coarse salt so be beneficiant when including salt to this recipe!
VEGGIES: Keep in thoughts that the measurements of the vegetables on this summer season corn salad don’t must be exact, when you've got more tomatoes or simply occur to love them, upload extra… a bit of quick on cucumbers, this may occasionally end up delicious!
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Ingredients
3 cups corn kernels about four cobs of corn
1 cup cherry tomatoes quartered
1 cup diced cucumbers
1/4 cup diced red onion
3 tablespoons olive oil
3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar or rice vinegar
a beneficiant sprinkle for sure salt
pepper to taste
1 tablespoon contemporary parsley
contemporary basil or dill optional
Instructions
Either boil or grill corn. Once cooked, take away kernels from corn.
Combine all meals in a big bowl and gently toss.
Season with salt & pepper to taste.
Recipe Notes
If time allows, grill your corn for optimum flavor.
Preheat grill to medium excessive heat. Remove silk and husk from corn. Brush with olive oil and generously season. Grill 2-3 minutes per part or till relatively charred. Cool earlier than using.