CORN AND AVOCADO SALAD

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A wonderful corn salad, savory and fresh-tasting. This recipe is fabulous with silver queen corn in the summer, but is also great with yellow sweet corn all year long!

Provided by Mary

Categories     Salad     Vegetable Salad Recipes     Corn Salad Recipes

Time 20m

Yield 4

Number Of Ingredients 9

8 slices bacon
2 heads butterhead lettuce
1 red bell pepper, chopped
1 bunch green onions, chopped
4 ears sweet corn, cut off the cob
2 avocados - peeled, seeded and cubed
⅔ cup red wine and vinegar salad dressing
3 tablespoons blue cheese salad dressing
2 tablespoons honey

Steps:

  • Saute bacon in a large, deep skillet over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, crumble and set aside.
  • In a large bowl, combine the lettuce, red bell pepper, green onions and corn, and mix together. Carefully stir in the cubed avocado.
  • In a separate small bowl, whisk together the red wine and vinegar dressing, the blue cheese dressing, and the honey.
  • Pour the dressing mixture over the salad and toss. Add bacon just before serving to keep it crunchy.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 807.7 calories, Carbohydrate 51.7 g, Cholesterol 40 mg, Fat 64.6 g, Fiber 11.5 g, Protein 15.4 g, SaturatedFat 15.1 g, Sodium 634 mg, Sugar 18.1 g

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