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Street Corn Pasta Salad

Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 6 large side servings
Author Julie Cavanagh

Ingredients

  • 300 g spiral pasta (or any shape)
  • 3 cups frozen corn
  • 1 red capsicum
  • 2 stalks celery
  • 1 tbsp Chipotle Lime Salt
  • 1 Lime or 1.5tbsp Lime Juice
  • fresh coriander (optional)
  • 3/4 cup sour cream
  • 1.5 tbsp oil eg rice bran or neutral oil
  • 50 g crumbled feta

Instructions

  1. Cook pasta as per usual instructions in a large pot of salted water. Rinse under cold water to cool the pasta and drain well 

  2. Heat a skillet or a large pan over a medium heat. Add frozen corn and leave to char, it will take about 5minutes to start to char, give a gentle toss and repeat to all side of the corn are lightly charred 

  3. You are looking for mostly charred or golden brown corn. Watch it closely towards the end as it can start to pop out of the pan

  4. In a large bowl combine sour cream, oil, the juice of two limes or roughly 1.5 tbsp of lime juice. Whisk to form the dressing 

  5. Finely dice capsicum and celery

  6. Add drained pasta to the bowl of dressing with the corn, capsicum and celery. Mix well  

  7. Crumble in feta and toss through gently 

    Add fresh chopped coriander if using 

    For extra zing and a little heat you can garish with a small dusting of chipotle orange rub if you have on hand