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Dinner · 10 min · 4 as a side

Corn cilantro salad

Frozen corn, cilantro, lime, onion. Feta if you have it. Char the corn if the pan is already hot. Don't boil it.

The sheet · 4 as a side · 10 min

easy

Why tonight. Frozen corn, cilantro, lime, onion. Feta if you have it. Char the corn if the pan is already hot. Don't boil it.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • corn
  • cilantro
  • lime
  • onion

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: feta.

Method

  1. Char the corn in a dry hot pan until some kernels are properly black. Boiled corn in a salad tastes of canned corn.
  2. Let it cool before anything else goes in, or the onion cooks and the cilantro goes limp.
  3. Onion sliced thin and soaked in the lime juice for a few minutes to take the raw burn off.
  4. Lime, salt, cilantro and feta last. Corn is sweet and needs more acid and more salt than you would expect.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

corn
Sugar that starts turning to starch the moment it is picked, which is why frozen often beats fresh.
cilantro
Citrusy and soapy in equal measure depending on who is eating it.
lime
Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
onion
The base under most of this library.

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