Grilled Corn Salad with Smokey Vinaigrette
This Grilled Corn Avocado Salad with Smokey Paprika Vinaigrette is a fantastic way to use up your farmers market produce.
It’s an unexplainable truth that certain foods taste better when someone else makes them.
Take sandwiches for instance. My husband and I can stand side by side, making the exact same sandwich, down to the folding of the ham… and his will taste better to me. Very suspicious.
Salads are the same way. There is no better salad than the one your friend makes.
Today’s Grilled Corn Salad with Smokey Vinaigrette happens to be one of my favorite late summer salads.
Warm grilled corn tenderly cut off the cob, avocado, vine ripened heirloom tomatoes, a touch of heat from red onion, fresh herbs, and a bold smokey paprika vinaigrette.
Grilled Corn Salad with Smokey Vinaigrette is extremely satisfying and very well balanced in taste and texture.
But… I’d like it even better if you made it for me. *wink*
Grilled Corn Salad with Smokey Paprika Vinaigrette
Ingredients
- 4 ears corn, shucked
- 10 ounces herb salad mix
- 1/2 cup red onion, sliced thin
- 1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved
- 2 avocados, chopped
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon white truffle oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon hot smoked paprika
Instructions
- Preheat the grill to heat heat. Place the corn on the heated grill the cook for 5-8 minutes, turning regularly. Remove from heat.
- Once cool enough to handle, cut the corn off the cobs.
- Place the salad mix in a large bowl. Top with corn kernels, red onion, cherry tomatoes, and avocado.
- Whisk together the oils, vinegar, honey, salt and paprika. Drizzle over the top and toss!
This salad was so delicious and the vinaigrette was outstanding. I used frozen roasted corn I had; didn’t have truffle oil but we liked the salad so much I plan to try it again with the oil. It is definitely a “keeper”.
Delish
Fantastic salad thanks. Made it yesterday and it went down a treat. Only addition I made was some lightly roasted pumpkin seeds sprinkled over the top. My family love these and they’re so good for them.
That vinaigrette sounds fabulous and the ingredients in the salad look so delicious together :) love it!
Yum, grilled corn. I love it when the corn is slightly grilled like that.
What a beautiful salad. I have white truffle oil but have never thought to use it in a dressing. I am loaded with heirloom tomatoes right now and this is a lovely recipe to use some. It looks like black cherry tomatoes in the photos and I have some. Great blog…I will return.
An excellent salad, the Smokey Paprika Vinaigrette sounds fantastic!
This sounds so good. I have most of the ingredients except the avocado. Hmmm…the wheels are turning!
Thanks for the fabulous recipe. Got to try it. BTW, I know exactly what you mean about someone making the same thing and it tasting so much better. Don’t understand it but it is very true.
Sommer, you are so right! I don’t know why that is. One of life’s mysteries but hey, isn’t it a good one!
Gorgeous salad. Those tomatoes look amazing.