Mexican Street Corn Salad is the perfect summer salad recipe. It combines fresh corn with a creamy dressing, chili powder, fresh lime, cotija cheese and loads of cilantro. Serve this flavorful corn salad with your favorite grilled protein for the best cookout side dish!
This side dish is definitely a summertime favorite so it is frequently in attendance to most family gatherings or dinners during summer. It comes together in no time – making it perfect for parties when you’re scrambling around trying to get everything done. Just throw all the ingredients into the bowl and done! You have an amazing dish that your friends and family will eat in about 0.2 seconds and then rave about all night.
Another thing I love about this “salad” is that I always have all the ingredients in my house. That eliminates me running to the store which I am always a fan of.
Mexican Street Corn Salad
Recipe Tips
This salad can be eaten right away and still be absolutely delicious BUT it’s also amazing cold. Since it is so easy to make, I like to pop it in the fridge the night before if I can. That way every bite is cool, fresh and crisp and accompanied by a warm tortilla chip. I also like to add some cilantro on top for garnish.
Swaps you can make for a macro friendlier version
I like it just as it is but you can always swap the mayo for light mayo or greek yogurt.
If you want to boost the protein, you can even toss in some beans.
What main dishes is the salad good to pair with?
Seriously anything! You can do a taco night, burrito bowls, ribs, chicken, veggies, etc. It’s obviously amazing and pairs perfectly with Mexican food – one of my favorites. I love to have some freshly made guacamole, queso dip and corn salad. The iconic trio to have for any taco Tuesday night.
Let’s make this even easier?
Now, you can grill corn and cut it off for that charred, yummy freshness. Another option would be to just get some canned or frozen corn and it’s honestly JUST as good.
Lastly, I like to use these bowls from Amazon for mix and serve. They all match and there are multiple different sizes.
Mexican Street Corn Salad is one of my favorite summer recipes! I love the fresh flavors and how
easy it is to make.
Ready to learn how to make Mexican street corn salad? Let’s get started!
Mexican Street Corn Salad
Ingredients
Instructions
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In a bowl, mix together corn, salt, chili powder, mayonnaise, lime juice and cilantro.
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Garnish with cotija cheese and tajin.
Nutrition Facts
Servings 6
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories 260kcal
- % Daily Value *
- Total Fat 13g20%
- Total Carbohydrate 33g11%
- Dietary Fiber 4g16%
- Protein 7g15%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
why don’t you call it by it’s actual name, you didn’t invent it and your “secret ingredient” isn’t a secret. that is literally a main ingredient. we love not having respect for other cultures.
Honestly, please learn the right name to this and the culture behind it.
are you not gonna say anything about your cultural appropriation??? miss mexican street corn salad 🤡
you not saying anything and continuing to post content like nothing is wrong makes you look really bad, i mean so does stealing peoples cultures and trying to profit off of it for some sad blog 🤡
that’s some thick af corn momaaaa
Ohh you mean esquite, the thing I grew up with and not some oversimplified salad from the street of Mexico. Please call it what it is, and make sure to tell all your friends about it, culture vulture 🙂
way to be a culture vulture.
please use the right name, and it’s not a salad, acknowledge your tiktok comments on that video and correct yourself before the worse ends up happening, we’re just correcting you and some are looking out for you but if you don’t wanna listen that’s on you, personally if i were you i’d listen and apologize but that’s just me personally
I’ll never understand why you yt pendejas take a culture’s dish, blandify it, repackage it as your own. We have to deal with the xenophobia, getting told to go back to Mexico, but you all still do this?
You have countless people calling you out in this and you still haven’t addressed it? Take that elote disgrace and your pendejaria and shove straight up your keister.
Stop appropriating other cultures
christina columbus
Everything is wrong with this recipe (btw, esquites are not a street salad). We don’t use cilantro in esquites, we use epazote; we never use canned corn, and the greek yogurt…I have no words.
If you want to make a corn salad, that’s ok, just don’t call it esquites.
Stop stealing recipes from The Mexican Culture…
Not to be rude but this dish got white washed
Do better, there is nothing wrong with posting a recipe that you love but give credit where credit is due. A reference or even a side note saying that it is found on every street corner in Mexico and parts of the US and giving its original name would save you from looking like you are taking the credit and renaming a Cultural food.