Corn Salad – colorful, tasty and easy, so delicious that you will want to skip main dish and make this a meal instead!
When cooking, color of food is very important, especially when it is time to decorate and serve the dish. We have luck that food consists of a large spectrum many different colors.
White – potatoes, cheese, rice, milk, cream.
Red – tomato, strawberry.
Yellow – egg, corn, apricot.
Green – spinach, parsley, peas, leek.
Whenever I cook, I decorate my dishes with natural colors. If you stay with me till the end of this delicious corn salad recipe, you will see that you can cook dishes which look beautiful thanks to colors.
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Corn Salad
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Corn Salad - colorful, tasty and easy, so delicious that you will want to skip main dish and make this a meal instead!
Ingredients
- 1 cup rice
- 2 cups corn (sweet corn)
- 1 leek
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- ¼ cup parsley
- 1 cup cream
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- ¼ lemon
Instructions
- In the small pot put rice and 2 cups of water, cook until boil for 15 minutes, rinse with cold water and strain well. In the other pot cook corn until boil.
- In large pot put corn, rice, finally chopped leek, mayonnaise, cream, salt and pepper to taste. Mix well and add ¼ lemon.
- Garnished with parsley. (I add parsley because I like that taste)
betty walters says
what is the cream ?
Lidia Simic says
In this recipe, I use sour cream.
Karla Smith says
Curious as to kind of cream to use.
Lidia Simic says
I use sour cream in this recipe.
Sally says
Do you drain the corn?
Lidia Simic says
Yes Sally, I drain the corn.
Kim says
What kind of cream is used?
Lidia Simic says
I use sour cream in this recipe.
Doris Stabile says
Do you put lemon juice in this or just the sliced lemons just for looks. Sounds great for a potluck for the summer.
Lidia Simic says
I put lemon juice in this salad. Yes Doris, this Corn Salad can be great for a potluck for the summer… Nice idea… 🙂
Brenda says
can corn or can you use frozen corn maybe I miss that in the recipe
Lidia Simic says
Hi Brenda,You can use any corn you have on hand,fresh or frozen corn, canned corn works well in this recipe, just drain it well before use. Good luck and enjoy!