The definition of salad is a dish consisting of a mixture of small pieces of food, which may be mixed with a sauce or salad dressing. They are typically served cold, although some are served warm. Salads may contain vegetables, fruits, cheese, cooked meat, eggs, grains and nuts.
Salads are always good for a covered dish dinner, and corn seems to be a favorite flavor of spring and summer; so this recipe is a hit! The ingredients list specifies Hellman's mayo. We often ask about subsisituting Miracle Whip for mayonnaise in recipes. They are different. Miracle Whip is made by Kraft foods, and they keep the ingredients a secret. But they do admit that the oil content is too low to be considered mayonnaise. The mixture gets its sweet and spicy flavor by having more sugar and seasonings than mayonnaise. For some recipes and preparations, you can make the switch, but Miracle Whip isn't always the best substitute for the mellower flavor of mayonnaise.
One substitute I did make in this recipe was to use frozen corn. As I stood in front of the canned vegetable section of our grocery unable to find shoe peg corn, I remembered why I hadn't made this recipe before. But I thought the change to frozen corn worked well. You could also use 2 cups of fresh corn cut from the cob.
Crunchy Corn Salad
2 cans shoe peg
corn, well drained (or 1 package/14.4 oz frozen)
3-4 ribs celery,
diced
1 sweet bell pepper,
seeds and membranes removed, diced
6 green onions,
chopped, green and white parts both
1 – 1½ cups Chili
Cheese Fritos, broken a bit
1 cup shredded
cheddar cheese
Dressing
⅓ cup Hellman’s mayo
⅓ cup plain Greek
yogurt
1 ½ Tbs. cider
vinegar
2 Tbs. granulated
sugar
kosher salt and
freshly ground pepper, to taste
In a large mixing
bowl, combine dressing ingredients; add vegetables and cheese. Toss to coat all
ingredients. Just before serving, add Fritos to salad.
No comments:
Post a Comment