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!
Great use of spices, this salad looks divine! Happy Cooking!
you are one of the few who can make me actually crave SALAD…thanks, Spicy!!
I made a grilled corn salad earlier this year and fell in love! This vinaigrette sounds fantastic – especially if I don’t have to make it!
Sommer I can so relate to a sandwich or salad tasting better when made by someone else. My husband tells me the same thing when I make him one too. You’re right – very suspicious – lol… Your salad looks delicious – you can make me one anytime you want :)
So true about salads someone else makes! Wonder why that is… Anyway, this viinagrette looks wonderful! The combo of truffle oil and paprika and rice vinegar – so creative!
Oooh, Delicious and inspiring as always!!! Gorgeous salad and wonderful clicks too :)
Hugs,
Aldy.
I’m with Krista – I LOVE the bowls!
Your salad is the perfect way to celebrate the end of summer, so sorry to say goodbye!
Love the addition of the grilled corn!
It’s so pretty! I am going to make it just because your pictures are fabulous!
This salad sounds delicious! Just FYI, white truffle oil is not made with real truffles (mushrooms). It is simply oil with artificial flavoring and a high price tag :)
Thanks Jenn. Yes, white truffle oil is no substitute for real truffles, but as most of us can’t get them, it still offers a lovely earthy pungency that really adds to this vinaigrette. :)
I love the addition of avacado – actually I love it all! Great idea and can’t wait to try the vinaigrette! Have a wonderful holiday weekend :)
This is one of my favorite summer salad combinations – and that smokey paprika vinaigrette sounds divine!
Delicious salad….and that’s EXACTLY why my husband asks me to make his sandwiches…he said he can make the same thing and mine taste better!
Grilled corn and avocado are one of my favorite summer combinations. This salad looks delicious!
I hear you. There are certain such dishes which my husband makes so better. I will follow his recipe point by point and yet it never comes out that yum!
This corn salad is looking so refreshing.. should grill the corns before summer is gone.
Looks & sounds so fresh!
Well, this Oklahoma summer has burned up all our corn and tomatoes, but we can still get them at the market. I had such beautiful herbs also but, alas, cooked in the sun. However, I definitely love this salad and you are so right, it always taste better to me when someone else prepares it.