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Elote Salad Bowl

Servings: 4
Calories: 570kcal

Ingredients

Roasted Corn and Peppers

  • 4 cups frozen or fresh corn
  • 1 red bell pepper (chopped)
  • 1 poblano pepper (chopped)
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 2 teaspoon umami seasoning

Jalapeno Lime Dressing

  • 1 jalapeño pepper
  • 2 tablespoon lime juice
  • 2 tablespoon water
  • ½ teaspoon garlic powder
  • ½ teaspoon cumin powder
  • ½ cup parsley (or cilantro. I hate cilantro)

Other Salad Ingredients

  • 8 ounces 1% lowfat cottage cheese
  • ½ cup uncooked quinoa
  • 1 cup canned black beans
  • 1 avocado
  • ½ cup chopped red onion
  • 1 cup cherry tomatoes (halved)
  • ¼ cup unsalted sunflower seed kernels (toasted)
  • 8 cups arugula (or salad greens of your choice)

Instructions

  • Make the dressing: combine all the dressing ingredients in a food processor and pulse until liquefied (you might need to add more or less water.)
  • Make the roasted corn and peppers: Preheat the oven to 400 °F. Combine the corn kernels, chopped peppers, olive oil and umami seasoning in a large bowl. Spread the mixture on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for about 8 to 10 minutes. (Target sells inexpensive umami seasoning.)
  • Squeeze the water out of the cottage cheese by wrapping it in a cheesecloth, tying the cheesecloth to the handle of a spoon and hanging it over a bowl for a few hours until the liquid drains out. Alternatively, you could also use queso fresco, cotija cheese, goat cheese or feta cheese. (We just really love cottage cheese.)
  • Cook the quinoa according to package instructions.
  • You can toast the sunflower seed kernels if you want - put them in a small skillet over medium heat and gently stir them around for 2 to 3 minutes until lightly browned.
  • Arrange the lettuce, quinoa, roasted corn and peppers, tomato, avocado, red onions, black beans, cheese, sunflower kernels and dressing in a bowl.

Notes

**Sweetgreen adds crushed tortilla chips to their Elote bowl and you can do that too, but I skipped them.   Late July's chia and quinoa tortilla chips are the lowest-sodium I've found and they are pretty good.