Grilled Corn Salad: The Perfect BBQ Side

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This past weekend, I went over to Megan’s house for a little potluck dinner centered around the Tortilla Land tortilla samples that we both received. I will definitely be blogging about that dinner; it was chock full of delicious food and drink and fun ladies, but I wanted to get this corn salad recipe in before the 4th of July weekend. It is a PERFECT barbecue side.

limes

jicama

corn

grape tomatoes

This corn salad is refreshing and incredibly simple. The ingredients:

12 ears of corn, shucked

1/2 large jicama, diced into small pieces

1 pint of grape tomatoes cut in halves or thirds, depending on their size

handful of cilantro

juice of 3 limes

3 teaspoons blood orange olive oil (regular olive oil and a splash of orange juice would be fine!)

I started by grilling the plain corn on my grill pan. I love this thing! I can’t believe it sat in my cupboard for a really long time before I used it. I turned the corn frequently so that it didn’t burn, but I definitely wanted it to have some color.

grilled corn

While the corn was grilling, I was dicing jicama and cutting tomatoes. Once the corn was grilled and cool, I cut it off of the cobs and got started on the dressing.

A simple blend of lime juice and blood orange olive oil, the dressing gave the crunchy corn and jicama a refreshing twist. For the tiniest kick, I added a few pinches of chili powder, a sprinkle of sea salt, and finally a generous helping of torn cilantro.

grilled corn salad

I loved this salad once everything came together. My first bite seemed a little tart, but once the salad sat for a few hours, the citrus mellowed out. It was a great accompaniment to a delicious meal and would make a great side dish for your 4th of July weekend.

What are your favorite barbecue side dishes? My mom makes a mean potato salad.  I also love baked beans, grilled potatoes, macaroni salad. . . I could eat side dishes all day long!

Tags: corn, Food, sides, summer, vegan, Vegetarian

  1. Emily @ A Cambridge Story’s avatar

    I can attest to this salad being FANTASTIC. I kept shoveling it in my mouth. Love the crunch of the jicama!

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  2. blog is the new black’s avatar

    This looks like an awesome 4th side dish!

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  3. Elizabeth’s avatar

    This was so good and it was so great seeing you!! I need to use jicama way more.

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  4. Daisy’s avatar

    looks like a perfect salad for the tortilla party!!

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  5. Michelle’s avatar

    This corn salad was SO good!

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  6. Charlene’s avatar

    The salad sounds delicious! Blood orange olive oil? Sounds fantastic – did you buy it in a store or online?

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    1. traveleatlove’s avatar

      I found it at Whole Foods! 🙂

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      1. Charlene’s avatar

        Thanks – I’ll be making a run to WF tomorrow! I just realized that this upcoming weekend is the 4th of July and we’ll definitely be grilling corn so I should make some for this salad to bring with me to watch the Pops play!

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      2. Megan’s avatar

        I didn’t realize there was blood orange olive oil in there. This was amazing! Thank you so much for coming over and bringing such a fabulous dish!

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      3. Michelle Collins’s avatar

        This salad looks so fresh! Some of my favorite BBQ sides are potato salad, mac salad, and even just good potato chips!

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      4. alicia’s avatar

        I honestly can’t get this salad out of my head. It was so good! I’ve always LIKED jicama, but I just never thought I’d CRAVE it like I do right now!!

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      5. christine’s avatar

        the step of grilling the corn really made all the flavors pop. thanks for the play-by-play! also, i’m sure there are many more dastardly things one could do with blood orange olive oil — maybe a contest to see what people could do? (i’m thinking blood orange olive oil gelato… cue michelle going crazy. haha.)

        favorite BBQ sides include UTZ salt + vinegar potato chips (blame it on maryland), buttered and salted corn on the cob, and anything speared on a toothpick (shrimp? cheese? meatball? sure!)

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      6. Eric King’s avatar

        Congratulations on the Boston.com feature 🙂
        I still cannot believe the corn was prepped without butter – so delicious and the cliantro gives it such a summer addition also.

        – Eric

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      7. sharon (umommy)’s avatar

        This looks amazing! I never thought of combining corn, jicama and blood orange olive oil. Yum! I love sides too. You should see our picnic basket!

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