What do you bring to a social distance brunch? This summer corn salad! I wanted to bring something crisp, light, crunchy, and let’s face it, easy. It turned out to be a huge hit! Not one kernel of corn was left in the bowl.
I wanted to incorporate the smokiness of grilled corn, yet my grill had been brought to the curb a year ago. So I shucked the corn and placed the ears on the top of the stove to singe them a bit. That did the trick!
Hope you enjoy it as much as my friends and I did.
Summer Corn Salad
September 1, 2020
Persons
6
Prep Time
30 minutes
Cook Time
5 minutes
Total Time
35 minutes
Ingredients
- 3 ears sweet corn shucked
- 1 medium shallot sliced thin
- 5 radishes sliced thin
- 3 cups cherry tomatoes halved
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 small jalapeno pepper chopped fine
- zest of one lemon
- 1/4 cup of lemon juice
- chopped cilantro
Instructions
- Shuck corn. Place cleaned ears over an open flame on your stove top. Keep on the flame until some of the kernels get brown. Rotate until the ears are singed. It took about 5 minutes. Remove from stove top and cool on a plate.
- Thinly slice shallot.
- Thinly radishes. Use a mandolin if you have one.
- Cut cherry tomatoes in half
- Placed sliced items in a bowl.
- Slice the kernels of the corn cobs into the bowl with the other ingredients.
- Add lemon zest and stir.
- Finely chop garlic clove.
- Finely chop jalapeno pepper
- In a separate bowl add finely chopped garlic, lemon juice and stir.
- Add half of the chopped jalapeno. Stir.
- Pour lemon juice mixture over the corm, etc. stir to incorporate and coat the ingredients.
- Sprinkle cilantro and mix.
- Taste. Add more jalapeno if desired.
- Salt and pepper.
- Enjoy!
Yummmm we have beautiful corn here in Missouri and Emma loves the little tomatoes–such a good combo!
Great minds! I just posted on a corn salad as well. I love that you can put just about anything with the corn, and season how you like. So versatile. Great recipe.
Beautiful! We ate corn last night with zucchini – Calabacitas with home made tamales. The corn is so sweet right now.
I adore corn salads. This looks delicious.