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Sweet And Spicy Mexican Street Corn Salad- The Best Side Dish That You Can Wish For!

April 12, 2019 / Dinner Ideas For Tonight, Recipes, Salad Recipes

The Mexican street corn salad is a side dish which can be served on various occasions and can be the perfect addition at your dinner table as well. The best part about the salad is the time consumed in the making of it. The preparation time and the cooking time are both approximately ten minutes and so it will hardly take 20 minutes of the time of your life to get this mouth watering salad ready. Just imagine, how lucky will you be if you could make almost around 10 people happy in just a matter of 20 minutes? Yes, it’s that easy!

The taste of this Mexican street corn will leave a memory for your taste buds and I can guarantee you that once you have had the experience of eating it, your heart will crave for more every time. The proper ratio of sweet and spice that is needed for a salad like this is the secret of our recipe. Once you know what is needed in how much quantity, you will excel in this. If you have kids, this can be the best meal for their uninvited appetite.

If you still feel like you are unsure about the corn salad from the utterly delicious Mexican cuisine; give it a try. The recipe below is for around 10 people and so you can reduce or double the ingredients depending on the number of servings.

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Sweet And Spicy Mexican Street Corn Salad- The Best Side Dish That You Can Wish For!

Sweet And Spicy Mexican Street Corn Salad Recipe

Ingredients:

  • Frozen Corn: 2 bags (each of around 400g or 14oz.)
  • Olive Oil: 1table spoon
  • Mayonnaise: ¼ cups
  • Cotija Cheese: Crumbled (around 225g or 8oz)
  • Diced Jalapeno: half (make sure you remove the seeds)
  • Cilantro: half cup (It should be properly Chopped)
  • Cayenne Pepper
  • Minced Garlic: 3 cloves
  • Lime: 1 (juice)
  • Sea Salt: as per need
  • Smoked Paprika: as per need
  • Chili Powder: as per need

Directions:

  1. Take a fry pan and heat it on medium flame, adding olive oil in it.
  2. Now cook the corns in oil for around 10-12 minutes, make sure to mix it every once in a while.
  3. Once the corns are toasted properly, keep them aside.
  4. After that, take a fairly sized bowl; add the following ingredients in it: Mayo, cojita cheese, cilantro, jalapeno, minced garlic and cayenne pepper. Make sure to mix them well until you feel that they are all even.
  5. Now take the lime and squeeze it properly into the bowl. Stir it well so that the whole mixture gets blended with the lime.
  6. Here comes the main part: add the corns to the mixture and mix it well. You should make sure that the mixture and corn are evenly stirred as having one thing excessively will not give the desired taste.
  7. Now put the salad in the refrigerator and wait for it to get chilled.
  8. After that comes the seasoning part; put the salad in an aesthetic bowl and spread the smoked paprika, chilli powder, and sea salt on the top of it.
  9. Your Mexican Street Salad is ready to be served!

Recipe adapted from 4 Sons R Us.

Healthy Mexican Recipes

November 2, 2018 / Dinner Ideas For Tonight, Recipes

The Mexican cuisine is highly popular because of its versatile flavors and dishes appealing to many palates. At the same time, it is notorious for lacking nutrition and for having an over-load of calories. Although, as unhealthy as it can be, we are all guilty of indulging ourselves with an occasional burrito, a quesadilla, some nachos or churros etc.

But it does not have to be like that. You can still enjoy your favorite Mexican dishes and look after your health too with these two very popular Healthy Mexican Recipes.

  1. Healthy Nachos Recipe

Loaded with veggies and home-made cheese sauce, these Nachos will tantalize your taste buds.

Healthy Nachos Recipe- Healthy Mexican RecipesIngredients To Gather

For Nachos:

  • Large sweet potatoes, 2-3.
  • Olive Oil, 1 tablespoon.
  • Cumin, 1 teaspoon.
  • Chili powder, 1 teaspoon.
  • 14-Ounce refried black beans, 1 can.
  • Sweet corn, 1 cup.
  • Multigrain tortilla chips, 3 oz.
  • Chopped cilantro and crumbled cotija cheese for topping.

For Cheese Sauce:

  • Butter, ½ teaspoon.
  • Minced garlic, ½ teaspoon.
  • Milk, 1 ½ cups.
  • Flour, 2 tablespoon.
  • Salt to taste.
  • Shredded cheese of choice, ½ cup.

Directions To Follow:

  • Let the grill preheat on a medium heat. In the meantime, wash, pierce with a fork and then wrap sweet potatoes in a paper towel. Microwave them for almost 4-5 minutes, cool and slice them into wedges. Toss them with olive oil, cumin, chili powder, salt to taste and grill them on each side until they are roasted.
  • In a saucepan, melt the butter and add the garlic to it. Sauté it for 1-2 minutes and add half of the milk to the pan. Let it simmer for a bit, mix the flour in the remaining milk and add it to the saucepan too. Stir until it is smooth and thick then take it off the heat. Whisk in the cheese and salt until it melts.
  • For the assembly, heat the refried beans in a pan or microwave them and dry roast the sweet corn until golden brown. In a dish layer the tortilla chips, top them with the sweet potato wedges, the beans and the roasted sweet corn. Finally drizzle the cheese sauce over it and top it with cotija cheese and cilantro.

Healthy Mexican Recipes can be indulgent too, try these Healthy Nachos and you will know for yourself.

Recipe adapted from: Pinch of Yum

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These Mexican Chicken Avocado Burritos Are So Delicious, Will Blow Your Mind!

November 16, 2017 / Dinner Ideas For Tonight

If you are in a big hurry to prepare a beautiful lunch or dinner, this Mexican Chicken Avocado Burritos might just be the solution for you! Who doesn\'t love a gorgeously looking dish that comes together with just 15 min prep and it\'s unbelievable tasty?
And even more good news: they do reheat really well too! So make a big batch, freeze them and then reheat them at work for lunch!

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Mexican Chicken Avocado Burritos

These Mexican Chicken Avocado Burritos Are So Delicious, Will Blow Your Mind!

INGREDIENTS

2 cups cooked and shredded chicken (or 2 chicken breasts, salt and pepper- to taste, 1 Tablespoon mustard, 1 Tablespoon olive oil)

1 cup grated cheese (I use mozzarella)

1 avocado -diced

2 Tablespoons cilantro-chopped

4 large tortillas

4 Tablespoon sour cream

1 Tablespoon oil

Get your Mexican Chicken Avocado Burritos full written recipe and helpful tips as well as many other delicious recipes at: OMG Chocolate Desserts

Thanks to Vera for this amazing recipe and featured image!

These Baked Chicken Quesadillas Are Fabulous!

March 20, 2017 / Dinner Ideas For Tonight

This Crispy Baked Chicken Quesadillas recipe by RecipeTin Eats is genius! You can make loads in one go so you can feed a crowd! Not having to stand by the stove to make one quesadilla at a time makes this recipe such a time saver! Stuffed with Mexican seasoned chicken, capsicum and gooey cheese, these baked chicken quesadillas are fabulous!

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Crispy Baked Chicken Quesadillas

INGREDIENTS
Chicken
400g / 14 oz chicken, cut into small bite size pieces (thigh, breast or tenderloin)
1 tsp cumin powder
1 tsp onion powder
½ tsp cayenne pepper (or adjust to taste)
1 tsp paprika powder
½ tsp salt + black pepper
1 tbsp olive oil
Filling
1 tbsp olive oil
½ small onion, diced (brown, white, yellow)
1 garlic clove, minced
1 red capsicum / bell pepper, diced
1 green capsicum / bell pepper, diced
Quesadillas
4 flour tortillas (20cm/8\”)
Olive oil spray
1 cup+ grated cheese (tasty, cheddar, Monterey Jack, Pepper Jack or other melting cheese of choice) (Note 1)

Get your full Baked Chicken Quesadillas written recipe and helpful tips as well as many other delicious recipes at: RecipeTin Eats

Thanks to Nagi for this amazing recipe and featured image!

Cheesy Chicken Tacos With Avocado Cream

January 6, 2017 / Dinner Ideas For Tonight

Simple, quick, delicious, cheesy chicken tacos are almost impossible to resist. Tacos come in many different flavors so adding avocado sounds like a great choice as it makes them even more tempting and irresistible. Everyone cleans the plate with this recipe, especially if you are an absolute avocado fan.

Easy to make, this simple and delish recipe will soon become a favorite for a quick and yummy meal.

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Cheesy Chicken Tacos With Avocado Cream

Cheesy Chicken Tacos With Avocado Cream

 

 

Get the recipe: Chicken Tacos With Avocado Cream

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