Mexican Corn Salad is a superb contemporary corn salad made for summer time BBQ’s and Mexican feasts! It’s an enormous salad type of Esquites, a corn road snack offered in cups on the streets of Mexico. Corn kernels are sautéed in butter and garlic till golden brown, then wearing a creamy lime dressing and completed contemporary coriander/cilantro and a touch of zing from Jalapeño. It’s outrageously and insanely good!
Mexican Corn Salad
This recipe generated a tizzy of pleasure amongst my group of mates after I first began making it a number of years again! One thing a little bit totally different to the standard steamed-butter-slathered corn on the cob (and there may be nothing unsuitable with that!!), it’s vibrant and vibrant, and it’s a superb dish for sharing.
Mexican Corn Salad is basically the enormous salad type of Esquites which is a well-liked Mexican Road corn that’s offered in cups by road distributors. And actually, Esquites is the “off the cob” model of Elotes, the well-known Mexican Road corn the place cobs are grilled over charcoal earlier than being slathered in a creamy-spicy sauce then rolled in crumbled cheese!
What goes in Mexican Corn Salad
Right here’s what you have to make this corn salad:
The creamy dressing for Mexican Corn Salad
The dressing is a creamy mayonnaise primarily based dressing with a stunning tang from lime juice and a savoury flavour enhance from parmesan (that is the key ingredient that offers this dish the wow issue!!).
You’ll discover many variations use much more mayonnaise than I do. I favor to make use of a mixture of mayonnaise and bitter cream to lighten it up a contact while nonetheless have a great quantity of creamy dressing. This fashion we get the most effective of each worlds – numerous dressing however not overly wealthy! I exploit this for many of my mayo-based dressings, resembling Coleslaw, Macaroni Salad, Broccoli Salad.
Contemporary corn vs canned and frozen corn
This recipe will work with any kind of corn BUT it’s undoubtedly finest made with contemporary corn as a result of it browns the most effective once you sauté it within the butter and garlic.
The way to minimize corn off the cob
Right here’s a tip for a simple technique to minimize corn kernels off the cob with out the kernels flying in every single place! Simply place an inverted ramekin in a big bowl OR use a bundt pan. Stand the corn cob on the ramekin then use a knife to chop the kernels off. The partitions of the bowl / bundt pan will cease the kernels flying throughout your counter!
The way to make Mexican Corn Salad
This recipe begins off by pan frying the corn in butter and garlic till it’s tinged with gold, at which level you have to to summon the power to not shovel spoonfuls of it straight into your mouth as a result of golden brown buttery corn? YES!!!
However WAIT! It will get even higher! Whereas the corn is sizzling, add within the parmesan, mayonnaise, bitter cream and lime and provides it a great combine so the dressing melts and mingles with the butter on the corn and coats each kernel superbly…
And lastly, we give it successful of freshness with onion and coriander/cilantro, and jalapeño if you’d like a contact of warmth, and end with a sprinkle of Cotija (Mexican cheese like feta) if you happen to occur to be lucky sufficient to get your palms on it (which I’m not) or feta, parmesan or goats cheese as a fallback.
Serve this as a facet dish for all issues Mexican. Take it to summer time BBQ’s, potlucks, informal lunches, a facet dish for dinner tonight.
Simply discover any excuse to make it! As a result of actually, to say my mates love this corn salad is an understatement. At any time when it makes an look, we’re in a state of affairs the place it’s important to eat quick, or miss out.
Actually. You snooze, you lose.
– Nagi x
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Mexican Corn Salad
Prep: 10 minutes
Prepare dinner: 10 minutes
Whole: 20 minutes
Aspect Dish
Mexican
Servings6 – 8 as a facet
Faucet or hover to scale
Directions
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Minimize off kernels: Minimize the corn off the cob (see picture in publish or video for the way I do that with out getting corn in every single place!) If utilizing frozen, don’t thaw.
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Brown corn: Soften butter in a big skillet over excessive warmth. Add garlic and stir for 10 seconds. Add corn and cook dinner for five minutes, stirring now and again, till you get pretty golden brown bits and the corn is cooked and candy (do not stir always, more durable to brown).
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Season corn: Add salt and pepper midway via cooking corn.
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Toss with dressing: Switch corn into massive bowl. Add mayonnaise, bitter cream, lime juice and parmesan. Toss nicely to mix – warmth will “soften” dressing. Add coriander/cilantro, pink onion, inexperienced onion and jalaepno. Toss once more.
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Serve: Switch to serving bowl. Crumble over cotija/feta and garnishes of alternative. Serve heat or at room temperature.
Recipe Notes:
2. Cotija is a Mexican Cheese which isn’t out there in Australia (to my data). It’s like Feta however not as salty. It’s only a garnish, so it’s not important.
3. Chipotle or Chili Powder – A contact of Chipotle or US Chili Powder wouldn’t go astray right here. I don’t add them as a result of I feel that is tremendous tasty as it’s, however a little bit sprinkle combined via or on high could be pretty.
4. Variations – Don’t really feel obliged to strictly observe the recipe for the add ins. You possibly can use regular onion as a substitute of pink (however minimize it down a bit as a result of it’s sharper) or eschallots, or simply use extra shallots/scallions. In case you are a kind of individuals who can not stand coriander/cilantro, swap it for parsley. Jalapeño is non-obligatory, and you’ll sub with canned if you happen to favor. And even use one other spicy contemporary chilli!
5. Mild on dressing! This recipe will not be meant to be coated thickly with mayo, like potato salad. As a result of the mayo and bitter cream are added whereas the corn is sizzling, they soften and develop into a dressing. Be at liberty to extend/lower the quantity of mayo and/or bitter cream if you’d like extra/much less!
6. Diet per serving, assuming 8 servings.
Diet Info:
Serving: 120gEnergy: 215cal (11%)Carbohydrates: 23g (8%)Protein: 6g (12%)Fats: 13g (20%)Saturated Fats: 5g (31%)Ldl cholesterol: 19mg (6%)Sodium: 327mg (14%)Potassium: 296mg (8%)Fiber: 3g (13%)Sugar: 6g (7%)Vitamin A: 720IU (14%)Vitamin C: 14mg (17%)Calcium: 98mg (10%)Iron: 1mg (6%)
Initially printed March 2017. Up to date with new video and pictures!
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