I love this Bacon, Avocado and Corn Salad. My entire family loves avocados. We’re super lucky to live in Southern California, where beautiful, ripe avocados are available to us all-year long for a good price. Seriously, most of the time you can pick them up for 99 cents, and often they are 2 for a dollar. LUCKY, right?! We’re grateful. And we eat them OFTEN.
It’s the bacon that does it for me. Bacon and avocados are two well-loved ingredients in my kitchen! And they’re perfect when paired together too!
This recipe comes from Absolutely Avocados by Gaby Dalkin. There are 80 amazing recipes for every meal of the day (even dessert… seriously!)
Sometimes I have a recipe that calls for bacon and I don’t have any bacon in the house. And sometimes I don’t like to buy a whole package of bacon since I forget that it’s in my refrigerator and then it goes bad. Did you know that you can usually buy bacon by the strip in your meat department? This recipe called for 5 strips of thick-cut bacon (so that’s all I bought… perfect). The bacon is fried until crisp, fat spooned out… all except for one tablespoon.
That one tablespoon of fat is what you’re going to cook the corn in. Just get it all warmed and flavored of that bacon fat, and it will be ready for the rest of the ingredients.
While the corn is still in the pan, you’re going to add feta (or cotija) cheese, chopped cilantro and lime juice.
Avocado Recipe Tip:
Chop up your fresh and perfectly ripe avocado (cut it in half first by wiggling a sharp knife vertically around the outside of the avocado and toward the pit. Twist and pull the sides apart. Drop your knife onto the pit until it sticks, twist and pull it out. Take a large spoon and loosen the avocado from the skin, then use a knife to cut the avocado into small chunks.
Transfer everything to a bowl, add the avocado and crumble in the bacon. Sprinkle salt and pepper on top. Done!
My family DEVOURS this salad every time I make it. It’s GONE in seconds.
If you love avocado in salad, try my watermelon and avocado salad, avocado and onion salad or this BLT red potato salad with avocado.
And if you’re really and truly as obsessed with avocado as I am, you can follow my Pinterest Board: Avocado Obsession!
Bacon, Avocado and Corn Salad
Ingredients
- 5 strips thick cut bacon
- 4 large ears corn, husks and silks removed
- ½ cup crumbled feta or cotija cheese
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
- 1 medium lime, juiced
- 1 large Hass avocado
- kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Place a heavy skillet over medium heat. Arrange the bacon strips in the skillet and cook on both sides until the bacon is crisp, 5 to 6 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel lined plate to dry. Remove all but 1 tablespoon of the bacon fat from the skillet.
- Cut the kernels off each cob by laying the cob flat on a cutting board and using a sharp knife to remove the kernels. Discard the cobs and transfer the kernels to the skillet with the bacon fat. Cook the corn over medium high heat until it is just slightly golden brown, about 5 minutes. Turn off the heat, crumble in the cheese, and add the cilantro and lime juice. Let the mixture cool to room temperature. Roughly crumble the bacon into the corn mixture and toss to combine.
- Cut the avocado in half lengthwise. Remove the pit from the avocado and discard. Remove the avocado from the skin, and cut the avocado into ½ inch pieces. Transfer the avocado to the skillet and toss.
- Taste and season with salt and pepper before serving. Serve immediately at room temperature, or refrigerate for later. Bring to room temperature before serving.
Notes
- If you are preparing this recipe as gluten free, just be sure to use a brand of bacon that is known to be GF.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
All my favorites. Can’t wait to try it.
This is a salad after my own heart! I need to buy Gaby’s cookbook — everything I’ve seen so far looks amazing!
Can’t wait to make this for my hubby…and to check out her cookbook! We love avocados here. Thanks for sharing!
This is one of many bookmarked recipes in Gaby’s cookbook! Yum!
Love this recipe! I bet it’s delicious! Great choice!
this is a bowl full of love…MMMyum I love everything about it.
Lucky is right…in Michigan we pay up to $2 for one avocado sometimes, and then when you cut into them they are bruised ; (
I am avocado obsessed these days! I think I am posting three recipes involving avocado this week! I start things off with Margarita Guacamole!
I love Gaby’s book and I do not enven own it yet! This salad look so goo! I love the bacon!
Oh, is this salad calling my name! And, so is this book. Thanks for sharing, Lori! Pinning…
Love how easy this looks. I can only imagine it would be a success serving during a picnic or a rooftop party.
Great choice out of her cookbook. I’m hoping to get to the bookstore soon, I have your cookbook on my list of things to buy as well as Gaby’s! FUN!!