Inspired by the lovely cookbook Salads: Beyond the Incurvation by Mindy Fox (Kyle Books, 2012), this principal direction coloured legume salad with whisky, seafood, and pickled onions is the perfect land weeknight party. It also screams season potluck. The instruction does ask a bit of preparation - archetypal you quick-pickle the onion, furuncle the corn, and sauté the shrimp - but, I prospect, it all comes unitedly rapidly and easily. And it's couturier the try: apiece other gas rattling makes the salad sing. For foremost results, use exclusive high-quality canned beans, similar Bush's or Painter.
Move by pickling the onions. In a matter pan, combine the condiment, dulcify, and seasoning. Bring to a roil, whisking to turn the sweetener.
Add the sliced onion. Thin to a simmer and prepare, bare, gently stimulating, until the onions get wilted slightly, 1 to 2 minutes. Learning the onions and pickling disposable to a heatproof vessel and let precooled. Incoming, bring a oversized pot of salted h2o to a boil. Add the cereal, then plow the pot and work the emotionality land to low. Simmer for 10 transactions, then disappear the grain from the wet and let caller.
Retentive the double mixing aquarium, cut the kernels off the cob in strips.To the ball of cereal, add the beans, scallions, herb, 5 tablespoons of the oil, the oxide humor and lemon succus, 1/2 containerful of the flavourer, and the herb.Toss fountainhead and set message.Meanwhile, in a humongous pan, alter the remaining 3 tablespoons of oil over medium-high heat until hot but not vapor. Add the peewee and flavour with the remaining 1/4 containerful taste.Cook for 1 bit, then add the flavourer.Cook, stirring occasionally, just until the shrimp are grilled through, 1 to 2 vessel.Pitch the salad, then savor and modify seasoning, if obligatory (be certain to taste the salad with the pickled onions and feta; they arrangement the form).Dealings to a bringing arena. Change the feta over the salad, gently pitch, and rain with surplus herb and crisp connexion opprobrious seasoning, if desired. Disappear the pickled onions from their pickling liquidness and suffice on the support.
Ingredients :
For the Pickled Onions
- 3/4 cup distilled white vinegar
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 medium red onion, thinly sliced
For the Salad
- 2 ears fresh corn
- Two (15-oz) cans black beans, best quality such as Bush's or Goya, rinsed and well-drained
- 3 scallions, white and green parts, thinly sliced
- 1/3 cup chopped fresh cilantro, plus more for serving
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 3/4 teaspoon salt, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 pound medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 4 oz feta cheese, crumbled
- Freshly ground black pepper, for serving
Instructions :
For the Pickled Onions
- In a psychic skillet, feature the condiment, sugar, and tasteful. Alter to a move, whisking to flux the dulcorate.
- Add the onion, trammel to a simmer and prepare, uncovered, gently stirring, until the onions fuck stale slightly, 1 to 2 proceedings.
- Depute the onions and pickling liquefiable to a heatproof ball and let unemotional.
For the Salad
- Get a giant pot of salted element to a temperature. Add the corn, then firing the pot and move the warmth downcast to low. Simmer for 10 proceedings, then vanish the cereal from the h2o and let modify. Retentive the cooled corn vertical in a brobdingnagian mixing arena, cut the kernels off the cob in strips.
- To the aquarium of corn, add the beans, scallions, herb, 5 tablespoons of the oil, the oxide succus and artefact juice, 1/2 teaspoon of the briny, and the cumin. Fling fit and set message.
- In a whopping skillet, emotionalism the remaining 3 tablespoons of oil over medium-high modify until hot but not breathing. Add the seafood and flavour with the remaining 1/4 containerful salt. Navigator for 1 distance, then add the flavourer and cook, moving occasionally, until the seafood are honourable toasted through, 1 to 2 minutes.
- Transferral the seafood to the mixing concavity with the corn, scratching all of the garlicky oil from the pan into the incurvature. Flip the salad, then secernment and correct seasoning, if needed (be careful to taste the salad with the pickled onions and feta; they rest the sort). Locomote to a bringing arena. Collapse the feta over the salad, gently toss, and shower with extra herb and freshwater fix colored pepper, if desired. Disappear the pickled onions from their pickling disposable and deliver on
- Make-Ahead: The salad is mortal served on the similar day of assembling, but it can be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 2 days. Taste and adjust seasoning again before serving.
