Corn Salsa

Name: Corn Salsa
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: white onion 1 small, finely chopped; olive oil 2 tbsp; sweetcorn 1 ear; lime juice of 1; yellow courgette 1, finely cut into 5mm (¼in) cubes; spring onions 4, finely chopped; yellow pepper 1, deseeded and finely diced

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Gate Easy Vegetarian Cookbook

By Adrian Daniel and Michael Daniel

Published 2007

About

Corn is one of those vegetables which, while not undereaten, is underutilized, and tends to be cooked in only one way. One of our favourite uses of this vegetable is as a base for salsas, in which the natural sweetness combines very well with the chilli and lime.

Ingredients

sweetcorn 1 ear
olive oil 2 tbsp
white onion

Americas
Mexico
Side dish
Gluten-free
Vegan
Central America

Method

Brush the sweetcorn with a little of the olive oil and sear in a dry, hot pan until lightly charred in parts. Remove the corn from the cob with a sharp knife. Put into a dish.
Heat 1 tbsp of the olive oil in a pan, and lightly sauté the white onion and yellow pepper fo