Cajun Corn In Addition To Kale Salad

I know it may live on difficult to believe but nosotros all the same accept corn!  And who tin say no to a delicious, healthy, slow dish similar this?  Not me.  The Cajun spices combined alongside crisp sugariness corn, crunchy vegetables as well as fresh cooked Kale is a winner inwards our house.  This salubrious combo is tasty cold, warm or room temperature.  My married adult man was eating it similar salsa, I lay leftovers on a salad as well as took it to work, as well as nosotros ate it every bit a side dish alongside some actually tender pork tenderloin.  This may fifty-fifty live on groovy alongside a prissy egg on overstep (Larry!)

When I eat similar this I wonder why nosotros would always desire to swallow pre-packaged, pre-made, preservative filled boxes of tasteless nothing.  With but a petty fourth dimension spent cutting upwardly vegetables the remainder of the dish comes together fast as well as easy.  You command the oestrus therefore spice it upwardly every bit much every bit you lot want.  As the recipe is written it has a lovely flavor without every bit good much heat.  I could bump it upwardly a fleck myself.

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Cajun Corn as well as Kale Salad

Course:

Vegetable Side

Cuisine:

Cajun

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

• 
  4
  ears sugariness corn,
  husks as well as silk removed
  


• 
  1
  large bunch of kale,
  stems removed
  


• 
  2
  teaspoons
  salt for cooking the kale
  


• 
  1
  large ruddy bell pepper,
  diced
  


• 
  1
  large light-green bell pepper,
  diced
  


• 
  1
  large tomato,
  diced & seeded
  


• 
  1
  small sugariness onion,
  minced
  


• 
  1
  large clove garlic,
  minced
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  olive oil
  


• 
  2
  tablespoons
  fresh lemon juice,
  about 1 lemon
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  salt
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  cayenne pepper
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  fresh soil pepper
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  ground mustard
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  crushed fennel seeds
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  dried thyme
  


• 
  you may substitute 1 1/2 teaspoons Cajun flavor for the salt, pepper, cayenne, mustard, fennel as well as thyme
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   In a modest mixing bowl combine the olive oil, onion, ruddy as well as light-green bell peppers, garlic, lemon juice, salt, cayenne, pepper, mustard, fennel as well as thyme. Stir until combined as well as laid aside.
   
   


2. 
   
   Bring 2 quarts of H2O to boil inwards a large pot. Add the corn as well as plough off the heat. Let the corn develop inwards the hot H2O for v minutes. Remove the ears to a plate as well as let them to cool. Reserve the cooking water. After the corn has cooled, cutting the kernels from the cobs as well as house inwards a large serving bowl.
   
   


3. 
   
   Bring the H2O to a boil i time to a greater extent than as well as add together ii teaspoons tabular array salt as well as the kale.  Cook until the kale is tender (not mushy) as well as all the same vivid green, close v minutes.  Drain the kale as well as i time cool, squeeze the remaining H2O from the kale using your hands.  Chop into modest pieces.  Add the chopped kale as well as love apple tree to the corn as well as therefore plication inwards the olive petroleum herb mixture alongside peppers as well as onion.  Season alongside tabular array salt as well as pepper to gustatory modality or move additional Cajun seasoning or something similar Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning.  Serve as well as refrigerate left overs.
   
   

Recipe Notes

(adapted from a recipe past times Angelic Organics Kitchen - published inwards the Farmer John's Cookbook)

There you lot accept it.  Another salubrious recipe to brand upwardly for the cookies I’m going to bake this weekend.  I’m saving room for dessert, as well as corn, as well as peradventure some biscuits or something.  We’ve been therefore expert for a land forthwith I experience the involve for a splurge.  I’ve been eyeing Ree’s (the Pioneer Woman) Mango Margarita recipe as well as mean value that would live on groovy to accept this weekend too.

We’re having pretty terrific cooler atmospheric condition hither inwards Virginia.  It has inspired me to compile some camping ground recipes to motility side past times side fourth dimension nosotros caput upwardly to the Shenandoah Mountains.  Soon – really soon.

And (I must live on chatty tonight) our garden is but non producing vegetables but is really light-green as well as happy.  We went totally organic this year, no Miracle Grow for us 🙁  We accept a giant compost bin as well as my married adult man has been working it pretty hard.  We promise it volition plough around shortly as well as forthwith that our dogs did away alongside all the rabbits, voles as well as opossums, maybe, but maybe, something volition grow without beingness eaten first.  I told that terminal petty bunny to run, but he wasn’t fast plenty for our Jack Russell Terriers.  They’re similar Velociraptors working inwards pairs as well as they are deadly.  We accept a half dozen human foot privacy ground therefore I motility to move on the furry cute animals out, oh good – nosotros produce what nosotros tin do, as well as they produce what they were breed to do.

Anyway – thank you lot therefore much for stopping by!  Hope you lot accept a lovely weekend.

Tricia

Source: savingdessert.com