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Fresh Mexican Corn Salad is a easy and delicious recipe using fresh ingredients! This salad only takes 5 minutes to make and uses NO mayo!

Mexican Corn Salad

Fresh Mexican Corn Salad is a easy and delicious recipe using fresh ingredients! This salad only takes 5 minutes to make and uses NO mayo!

Growing corn in a box on a rooftop in New York City is pretty cool.  When we start to spot the ears of corn and I can start to shake the plants to help pollinate I get very excited.  As you probably can guess, I do a corn dance. It looks the same as my broccoli and pumpkin dance. I pretty much have the same garden dance move for all our plants, I put my hands out to my side and do a 60s Twist move.    One day I might post the dance on here but I’m not sure if you are ready for that yet.

Fresh Mexican Corn Salad - it's a quick and delicious recipe using fresh ingredients!

Lately I’ve been craving vegetables for dinner. Lots and lots of vegetables and nothing else.  My other half loves meat for dinner (like these Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos) but I have been persuading him to try a happy veggie meal once a week, and I’m hoping we can get that up to 2 nights a week soon.    If I served this Mexican Corn Salad more than once a week I know I could because we love this dish.

Fresh Mexican Corn Salad - it's a quick and delicious recipe using fresh ingredients!

Mexican Salad Recipe

 It’s full of fresh corn kernels cut right off the cob, black beans, diced tomatoes, bell peppers and my favorite: hominy.  To spice it up we add in cumin, cilantro and lime juice.    Just thinking about this salad makes me want to cancel dinner plans for tonight and cut up some corn.

Speaking of corn, isn’t it just beautiful?

Fresh Mexican Corn Salad - it's a quick and delicious recipe using fresh ingredients!

Even the husks are pretty.

Fresh Mexican Corn Salad - it's a quick and delicious recipe using fresh ingredients!

And when the salad comes together you are going to be in love too.  The best thing about this salad is that it takes 5 minutes to make- amazing, right? The only thing that is cooked is the corn and that is only for 3 minutes.    

Fresh Mexican Corn Salad - it's a quick and delicious recipe using fresh ingredients!

 So if you’re craving a delicious dinner full of vegetables and you want it made within minutes, look no further.  Enjoy!

Want more garden fresh salad recipes? Check out my Kale Salad and Cantaloupe Salad.

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Fresh Mexican Corn Salad is a easy and delicious recipe using fresh ingredients! This salad only takes 5 minutes to make and uses NO mayo!
Prep Time: 2 minutes
Cook Time: 3 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
serves 4

Ingredients

  • 1 can black beans - rinsed and drained
  • 1 can hominy - rinsed and drained
  • 4 ears corn - kernels sliced from cob
  • 1 can Ro*Tel Diced Tomatoes and Green Chilies
  • 1 bell pepper - chopped
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
  • 2 tablespoons lime juice
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1/4 cup chopped cilantro

Instructions

  • Place corn in large pot of boiling salted water and cook for 3 minutes.
  • When corn is cool, cut kernels off cob.
  • Combine all ingredients in a bowl.
  • Serve and enjoy.
Course:Salad
Cuisine:Mexican
Keyword:corn salad, mexican corn salad, mexican salad
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  1. Monica says

    I love simple recipes like this because it showcases how delicious wholesome food is. Your green thumb continues to amaze me. And there’s nothing like fresh corn. My other half loves a good meaty dinner (not to mention my little one) but I am definitely turning things to the more colorful side with great recipes like the one you’re showing us here.

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  8. Beth @ bethcakes says

    I think it’s so cool that you have a garden on a rooftop in New York! I just love things like that. 🙂 This salad looks so good and refreshing, though! Nice for a light dinner before the week of Thanksgiving!

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  17. Koko says

    Your corn is beautiful! It’s so amazing what you can grow in a rooftop box…
    Your salad is stunning- look at those colours! I don’t really know what hominy is…but I just googled it, so we’re all good! I love learning about new foods!

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  18. Chris @ Shared Appetite says

    I am one that would love to see these garden dance moves that you do. Maybe that’s what I’ve been doing wrong all these years with my backyard vegetable gardening. I haven’t been dancing for the plants! It all makes sense now.

    I love the idea of adding hominy into the salad. This is a salad I could happily eat multiple times a week. It looks like pure awesomeness in a bowl.

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  19. Jamie | Jamie's Recipes says

    I am jealous of your garden growing abilities. I think I might have to dance for my plants next summer! This salad is something I could eat every day and never tire of it. Hominy is a relatively new to me vegetable. My husband doesn’t eat canned corn but he will indulge in canned hominy for some reason. I love adding it to soups in place of corn.

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  25. Francine says

    I’m the same as you in that I can have a meal made entirely of vegetables and be totally happy. This looks great! I’ve never had hominy before though (though I’ve heard Guy Fieri rave about it enough). Does it taste like corn?

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