Easy Holiday Recipe - Corn Salad

Easy Recipe for Christmas or Thanksgiving Side Dish

Nov 15, 2009 Sandy McCollum

A dressed side salad that can be hot or cold and contains all the vegetables kids like, with onions. Family dinner recipe for Christmas, Thanksgiving and holiday dinners.

This delicious corn salad is great whether hot or cold and lots of children like it. First made over 20 years ago on a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s been pleasing family gatherings and holiday dinners ever since. At some homes, it’s not Thanksgiving or Christmas without it.

Because of the dried tomatoes this recipe takes some time to make, but the steps are so easy that the hardest part is waiting to eat it. This recipe makes servings 10 or more people.

First, gather these items:

  • A cutting board
  • Foil
  • Baking sheet
  • A cereal spoon
  • Sharp knife
  • A large bowl
  • Fresh tomatoes
  • Garlic powder

Prepare to Prepare the Holiday Side Dish

Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 250(f).
  2. Cover baking sheet with foil.
  3. Oil or grease the foil lightly.
  4. Wash the tomatoes
  5. Seed and clean the tomatoes. Cut them in half and scoop out the seeds with the end of a spoon handle.
  6. Cut the tomatoes into ¼ inch-wide strips
  7. Place on baking sheet skin side down in rows, making sure the tomatoes do not touch each other. If they touch, they’ll bake and be stuck together.
  8. Sprinkle with garlic powder - use as much as needed for taste.
  9. Put in warmed oven for 90 minutes, then check and remove the ones that are done and put any that aren’t done back in for 10 more minutes.
  10. Take them out of the oven when they’re all dried but still red. Tomatoes will brown when they dry; they aren’t burned and they taste great, they just turn brown sometimes.

Taste one, and it will be abundantly clear why this had to be done. The dried tomato has a warm, concentrated flavor that will taste great in whatever it’s added to. Keep this recipe handy for other dishes that might need a little sprucing up.

The Rest of the Corn Salad Holiday Recipe

During the 90 minutes it takes for the tomatoes to dry, the other vegetables can be chopped. Gather these together and chop them in a uniform size. All the ingredients should be about the same relative size.

In the large bowl, put:

  • A large bag of frozen corn, thawed and drained
  • 1 can Pearl onions, drained and left whole
  • 1 bunch green onions (cut off the roots and cut these in 1 inch lengths, the green part, too)
  • Oven-dried tomatoes
  • 1 Head of broccoli cut into florets
  • 1 Head of cauliflower cut into florets
  • Porcini mushrooms - any kind that’s available to you
  • Sea salt to taste
  • Fresh cracked pepper to taste
  • ¼ to 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil

  1. Mix all these ingredients with a large spoon.
  2. Taste for salt and pepper additions.
This salad can be steamed and it’s delicious, but kids like their veggies raw, the best. It gets compliments whether hot or cold.

Enjoy it and happy holidays!

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