Avocados filled with Corn Salad make the perfect party appetizer! These are easy to make! I love this Corn Salad Avocado Party Appetizer recipe!
Avocado, you beautiful thing. Want to know a surprising fact? I had my first avocado in my 20’s. As a kid we would never have them in the house and I never tasted guacamole. Then I slowly started to eat them as a sliced topping on my favorite tortilla soup. Now today, I’m licking clean (TMI?) the guacamole bowl. So yeah, I love you avocado, I’m sorry it took me so long to realize this.
With Thanksgiving and Christmas around the corner I’m starting to think about parties. I love a good potluck where all your friends gather together and bring all types of food to enjoy. So I got to thinking about avocados…what could I do besides the usual guacamole? And what I could do fun with them? Then one afternoon it hit me, Avocado Sailboats! And even better they’re filled with my favorite Mexican Corn Salad.
The Best Avocado Appetizer!
These are simple to make. You can easily make a few dozen of these Avocado Sailboats in less than 15 minutes. I love that they’re full of fresh ingredients unlike some other fried finger foods that might make its way to the table. I hope you give these a try!
You’ll need 12 avocados which will make 24 sailboats. If you want to scale it up or down, then do the math accordingly. Or you can just follow the recipe exactly and if you have leftover salsa eat it with a spoon, it’s that good.
Corn Salad Avocado Party Appetizer Recipe
You’ll want some delicious avocados to start with.
The first step is cutting each avocado in half and then taking out 1-2 tablespoons of each avocado half so we can scoop more salsa in them.
Now we’ll grab our delicious Mexican Corn Salad!
It’s just that easy…start filling each avocado up with the salsa. I like to cut up a few slices of leftover avocado to add a little bit on top.
Once they’re all filled up with the salsa we’re going to add their sails to them. Grab a few toothpicks and cut out triangular sails for each. For the colors, have fun. Maybe you’re doing festive green and red for the holidays, or maybe you want it rainbow bright! Stick each toothpick to the paper and then insert into the avocado.
And just like that you have Avocado Sailboats Filled With Mexican Corn Salad!
Have fun and let me know if they’re a hit at your next party. I just hope you invite me. 🙂
Enjoy this Corn Salad Avocado Party Appetizer recipe!
Corn Salad Avocado Party Appetizer
PrintIngredients
- 12 avocados
- 1 can black beans - rinsed and drained
- 16 oz bag of frozen corn - cooked
- 2 cups chopped tomatoes
- 1 green pepper - chopped
- 1/2 jalapeno - finely diced
- 1 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
Instructions
- Take avocados, cut in half long ways and remove the pits.
- Take 1-2 tablespoons out of each of the avocados so you can fill them with corn salad. Keep this leftover avocado to the side.
- Time to make the salad! Mix all ingredients besides avocados together in large bowl.
- Put spoonfuls of corn salad in each avocado.
- Place slices of leftover avocado on top.
- Add a cute paper sail on top with toothpick. (optional)
All That I'm Eating says
These look so fun and they’re filled with all my favourite things!
kushi says
WOW! That’s so cute, colorful and delicious !
Emma @ Bake Then Eat says
Now this is my kind of party food. I much prefer fresh and tasty to fried any day! Don’t worry I was in my 20’s too before I ever tasted my first avocado my mum never had them in the house as she didn’t like them…. crazy I know 😀
grace says
very fun presentation! this is the kind of food i could eat daily (and sometimes do). 🙂
Pamela says
I agree…. this come from a girl who ate a avocado yesterday for lunch (with some arugula on toast – yum).
Meghan | Fox and Briar says
Oh my GOD these are so cute! I love them. I think avocados are something that you appreciate as you grow up. When I was a very small child my mom ate avocados and I thought they were disgusting. One day I was very mad at her for some reason and so I called her an avocado, because it was the meanest thing I could think of. She still reminds me of this. Now I love avocados, so it I call someone that it is really a compliment.
Pamela says
That’s too funny. I, in secret, will start calling people an avocado when I’m angry at them. Thanks for the smile Meghan!
Ashley says
Ha! These are so so darn cute! I love anything with avocado so these are right up my alley!
Pamela says
Thanks Ashley!
Shashi at RunninSrilankan says
Pamela – these are adorable! And such a brilliant appetizer! Love the mexican corn salad in them and the no-clean up bowls or boats should I say!
Pamela says
That’s such a good point about the no-clean up bowls Shashi, I didn’t even think about that because I was too busy eating these sailboats! :D)
Alicia@Eco Friendly Homemaking says
Oh my goodness these not only look adorable but so delicious as well!
Pamela says
Thanks Alicia!