Spicy Roasted Corn, Chicken and Avocado Salad

This recipe for Spicy Roasted Corn, Chicken, and Avocado Salad, made with Sunshine Sweet Corn, is not only delicious but also a great way to eat your veggies!

I love corn. I also love salads. So when I spotted the recipe for Spicy Roasted Corn, Chicken and Avocado Salad on the Sunshine Sweet Corn website, I knew I had to try it.

Why Sunshine Sweet Corn?

Because it’s non-GMO! Sunshine Sweet Corn is regulated for quality and is the cream of the crop.

This recipe is made with lots of whole food, plant-based ingredients. (We all could use more veggies in our lives, right?) In addition to Sunshine Sweet Corn, there are radishes, tomatoes, and avocado, not to mention the bed of lettuce that it all tops.

🥘 Ingredients

For this salad recipe, you need the following items:

• lime juice
• chili powder
• salt
• fresh supersweet corn
• cooked chicken 
• grape or cherry tomatoes
• radishes
• Hass avocados 
• Spicy Salad Dressing 
• mixed salad greens

🔪How To Make Corn Salad

The three basic steps are:

1. Season, marinate, and cook the corn.
2. Combine chicken, tomatoes, radishes, and avocado in a spicy dressing.
3. Assemble the salad.

Spicy Roasted Corn, Chicken and Avocado Salad

This recipe is made with lots of whole food, plant-based ingredients. In addition to Sunshine Sweet Corn, there are radishes, tomatoes, and avocado, not to mention the bed of lettuce that it all tops.

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Course: Main Dishes

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

Servings: 4 salads

Calories: 416kcal

Author: Lynda

Ingredients

• ▢ 2 tablespoons lime juice
• ▢ 1 teaspoon chili powder
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon salt
• ▢ 4 ears fresh supersweet corn husk and silk removed
• ▢ 2 cups diced cooked chicken about 10 ounces
• ▢ 1 cup halved grape or cherry tomatoes
• ▢ ¼ cup sliced radishes
• ▢ 2 fully ripened Hass avocados halved, pitted and peeled
• ▢ Spicy Salad Dressing recipe follows
• ▢ 4 cups mixed salad greens in bite-sized pieces

Instructions

• Preheat broiler to high. In a small cup, combine lime juice, chili powder and salt. Brush corn ears with the seasoning mixture; place on a broiler pan. Broil 6 inches from heat source until lightly browned; turn and continue broiling until barely cooked, a total of 7 to 10 minutes. Cool.
• Meanwhile, in a bowl, combine, chicken, tomatoes and radishes. Cut each avocado into slices then cut slices in half crosswise; add to chicken mixture. Add ¼ cup Spicy Salad Dressing; toss gently.
• Cut two or three ¼-inch slices from each corn ear; set aside. Cut remaining corn kernels from the cobs, by holding the ear upright in a shallow bowl so the kernels don’t scatter. Divide salad greens among 4 dinner plates. Top with the chicken mixture then corn kernels. Garnish with reserved corn rounds. Serve with additional dressing, if desired.

Spicy Salad Dressing

• To ½ cup of your favorite vinaigrette dressing, add 1 teaspoon chili powder, and ⅛ teaspoon each ground cumin and ground red pepper (cayenne).

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Notes

Recipe courtesy of SunshineSweetCorn.com.

Nutrition

Serving: 1salad | Calories: 416kcal | Carbohydrates: 33g | Protein: 22g | Fat: 25g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 17g | Cholesterol: 69mg | Sodium: 290mg | Fiber: 8g | Sugar: 11g

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Now’s a great time to pull out your cookbooks or to head over to Sunshine Sweet Corn website for corn recipes. Recipes such Sweet Corn, Tomato & Avocado Salsa, Cheesy Corn Pizza with Bacon and Scallions, Fire Roasted Corn and Chorizo Dip, Grilled Sweet Corn and Shrimp Risotto, and Sweet Corn Pudding with Macerated Strawberries. Yes, corn can even be made into a dessert!

Corn Trivia

• The average ear of corn has 800 kernels in 16 rows.
• The corn cobb is actually part of a “flower” and the kernels are “seeds.”
• 1 bushel of corn is equal to 8 gallons. A bushel of corn weighs 56 pounds – it’s about the weight of a large bag of dog food.
• Corn cobbs always have an even number of rows.
• Corn contains fiber, potassium, vitamin C, Vitamin A, protein, and carbohydrates for energy.
• Native Americans taught early settlers how to make various corn dishes including cornbread, corn pudding, corn soup, and fried corn cakes.

Be sure to come back and tell us how your salad turned out!