Corn and Tomato Salad

We eat a lot of salads around here.  When the family was here for the holiday week-end recently, I sometimes served three salads as side dishes to the main entree.  My daughter-in-law Josie let me borrow one of her favorite cookbooks called Love and Lemons.  It’s a beautiful cookbook loaded with recipes using fresh ingredients.  I found the recipe for corn and tomato salad in the book.  Well…….in the book it’s called corn, tomato, and mozzarella salad, but instead of mozzarella, I used feta.  So, I had to change the name up a little.  Two foods say summer to me – fresh corn and basil from my herb garden.  Since this salad had both, I loved it.  In fact, I sneaked into the kitchen before bedtime and ate up the little bit that was left.  I didn’t want to risk missing out on it.

I did a few things differently from the recipe.  I cut the corn from the cob and sauteed it in a skillet with 1 teaspoon olive oil.  I did not chop the spinach leaves, and as mentioned above, I used feta instead of mozzarella.  Also, I doubled the recipe so that it would serve eight.  The original recipe serves four.

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Corn and Tomato Salad

Ingredients

• 2 ears fresh corn, husked
• 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
• 2 cups chopped baby spinach
• 1/2 cup halved cherry tomatoes
• 1 cup feta cheese
• 1/4 cup chopped green onions
• 1/2 cup thinly sliced fresh basil
• 1 teaspoon sherry vinegar
• Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika, optional

Instructions

1. Preheat grill pan to medium high heat. Brush the corn with olive oil and grill about 2 minutes per side, rotating until the kernels on all sides are tender and a few char marks form. (I cut the corn off of the cob and sauteed it in a skillet with 1 teaspoon the olive oil.) Allow to cool.
2. Place the corn, spinach, tomatoes, feta, onions, and basil in a large bowl. Toss with 1 teaspoon olive oil, the sherry vinegar, and paprika. Season generously with salt and pepper.

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