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Thai Corn Salad Recipe for a Summer Lunch or a Fried Chicken Side. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Thai Corn Salad Recipe for a Filling Summer Lunch or a Perfect Side for Thai Style Fried Chicken

This easy Thai corn salad recipe makes a fantastic filling salad that is the perfect light summer lunch or an ideal side for dinner when paired with spicy Thai fried chicken. Our recipe makes a simple tossed salad that’s based on a popular Bangkok som tam style pounded salad.

Summer for me means corn season and time to binge on my favourite Southeast Asian and Mexican corn dishes made with locally-grown seasonal corn. Cambodian corn comes in all kinds of colours and forms, from a pale lemon-coloured corn that is stodgy and chalky, which I really don’t like at all, to this sweet firm yellow corn that I could binge on until I grew husks.

Our easy Thai corn salad recipe makes fantastic use of our seasonal corn here in Cambodia, making a light yet filling salad that is perfect for a sultry summer lunch in between swims. It’s also ideal for a casual dinner as a side dish for spicy Thai-style fried chicken – which is exactly what we tucked into last night. Recipe for the fried chicken coming very soon.

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Now let me tell you about this easy Thai corn salad recipe.

Thai Corn Salad Recipe for a Summer Lunch or a Fried Chicken Side. Copyright © 2021 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Thai Corn Salad Recipe for a Filling Summer Lunch or a Perfect Side for Thai Style Fried Chicken

Our easy Thai corn salad recipe makes a simple tossed salad inspired by a popular Bangkok som tam style salad that’s pounded in a mortar and pestle. While we do love a good som tam – I’m publishing a classic Thai som tam recipe here on the weekend – for us, this salad works best as a tossed salad.

Like all great salads, this Thai corn salad recipe requires fantastic fresh ingredients, so do try to get hold of corn on the cob if you can. If you can’t – if corn is not in season in your neck of the woods, or you’re in lockdown – canned corn kernels would do the trick. Canned beans and tinned carrots will not.

I nearly always do my corn the same way, whether we’re eating it off the cobs or in cups or as a salad – typically, I’ll do all three ways over a few days! – and that’s doing it on a griddle pan if we’re cooking inside or grilling it on the clay brazier if we’re cooking out.

It would therefore be rare that I’d char one ear of corn on its own as we specify in this recipe. Rather, I might do four or six pieces and split them over several meals, as corn lasts well in the fridge and can always be revived by popping it back on the griddle pan or tossing it in a wok.

Thai Corn Salad Recipe for a Summer Lunch or a Fried Chicken Side. Copyright © 2021 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Tips to Making This Thai Corn Salad Recipe

Just a couple of tips for making this Thai corn salad recipe as it’s super easy. If you can grill your corn cobs over an open flame, go for it, so you have those fabulous smoky aromas as well as the pretty char marks. Since we’ve lived in Siem Reap, Terence has grilled over a traditional clay brazier on our balcony just as most Cambodians do at home and street food vendors do on the streets.

Terence loves these coconut charcoal BBQ briquettes for the brazier. When we can’t grill outdoors if it’s too hot or raining, he will often use this stovetop Korean BBQ grill pan. I like to use the griddle pan that I linked to above on the stove. If we were back home in Australia,Terence would be using one of these outdoor barbecue or grills.

Definitely cook your corn first then while it’s cooling make your dressing and set it aside so that the flavours meld together. Don’t pour it over the salad until the last minute, as you don’t want everything soggy. If you don’t mind soggy, keep in mind that while we love to make this Thai corn salad recipe as a tossed salad, you could always pound it as you would a som tam in a mortar and pestle.

Thai Corn Salad Recipe

Thai Corn Salad Recipe for a Summer Lunch or a Fried Chicken Side. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

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This easy Thai corn salad recipe makes a fantastic filling salad that is the perfect light summer lunch or an ideal side for dinner when paired with spicy Thai fried chicken. Our recipe makes a simple tossed salad that’s based on a popular Bangkok som tam style pounded salad.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Course: Lunch, Salad
Cuisine: Thai
Servings: 2 Servings
Calories: 207kcal
Author: Lara Dunston

Ingredients

  • 1 corn cob
  • 3 tbsp fish sauce
  • 2 limes juiced
  • 1 garlic clove finely chopped
  • 1 tbsp creamy palm sugar
  • 150 g cherry tomatoes halved
  • 60 g long beans chopped into 5cm pieces
  • 1 carrot grated
  • 1 large mild red chilli finely sliced
  • 1 purple shallot finely sliced
  • 1 handful of fresh coriander leaves
  • 2 tbsp roasted peanuts

Instructions

  • Remove the corn husk and silk threads, wash the corn cob, pat it dry, then grill it on a dry skillet pan over medium-high heat, turning it every few minutes, so that it’s nicely charred on all sides. It should take around 10-15 minutes to cook. Then transfer to a cold oven tray to cool.
  • In a small mixing bowl, make your dressing by stirring the fish sauce, lime juice, chopped garlic clove, and creamy palm sugar until the sugar has completely dissolved, then set aside so the flavours meld together.
  • Stand the corn cob upright in a salad bowl, and using a knife, start at the top of the cob and slice the corn kernels off as close to the core of the cob as you can. Work your way around the cob until you’ve removed all the kernels.
  • To the salad bowl, add the cherry tomatoes, green beans, grated carrot, red chilli, purple shallot, 1 tablespoon of roasted peanuts, and a handful of coriander, and combine.
  • Just before serving add the dressing, and combine, then plate and garnish with more peanuts and fresh coriander and eat straight away.

Nutrition

Calories: 207kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Sodium: 2218mg | Potassium: 804mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 6125IU | Vitamin C: 81mg | Calcium: 89mg | Iron: 2mg

Please do let us know if you make this Thai corn salad recipe in the comments below, as we’d love to know how it turns out for you.

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About Lara Dunston

A travel and food writer who has experienced over 70 countries and written for The Guardian, Australian Gourmet Traveller, Feast, Delicious, National Geographic Traveller, Conde Nast Traveller, Travel+Leisure Southeast Asia, DestinAsian, TIME, CNN, The Independent, The Telegraph, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, AFAR, Wanderlust, International Traveller, Get Lost, Four Seasons Magazine, Fah Thai, Sawasdee, and more, as well as authored more than 40 guidebooks for Lonely Planet, DK, Footprint, Rough Guides, Fodors, Thomas Cook, and AA Guides.

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  1. Ann says

    September 22, 2022 at 1:16 am

    This was really tasty and easy to make, and looked just like the photo. I did make some very small adaptations based on what I had available, for example I had a single cooked (boiled) cob of corn in the fridge that needed using up, and very fresh regular (typical North American) green beans. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything labelled “creamy palm sugar” here in Canada and I shop at some pretty specialty markets – so I used 1 Tbsp. of golden brown sugar. My limes were not especially juicy so I used only 2 T. of the fish sauce. The result was well balanced and plenty to dress the salad. Finally, for some reason I can almost never find mild red chilies so I used a spoonful of the Calabrian chilies in oil that I keep in the fridge – it worked surprisingly well. In the winter, frozen corn would likely work well, but I’m also wondering about baby corn (frozen or canned) – I think it would look really nice. I served this with grilled chicken – very nice.5 stars

  2. Lara Dunston says

    September 23, 2022 at 12:21 pm

    Hi Ann, so pleased you enjoyed the recipe. Creamy palm sugar is the form it comes in after the palm juice has been reduced over a hot wok for a few hours. It’s how we buy it from the palm sugar makers in a nearby village. It’s sold in a jar and looks like creamed honey. While you can easily find it in that form in other Southeast Asian countries, in North America you’ll probably have better luck sourcing it in a hard tablet form, which they call ‘palm sugar candy’ due to its shape, or granulated form from a specialised Asian supermarket/grocery store. Brown sugar is just fine if you can’t source palm sugar – palm sugar has a more caramel-like flavour, but brown sugar will work. I’ll add these notes to the post.

    Re ratios of lime juice and fish sauce – do what works best and tastes more balanced to you. Aside from the fact we all have different palates, which always makes recipe development/writing a challenge, there’s so much diversity in both limes and fish sauces. We were at a market in the capital Phnom Penh a couple of days ago and a stall-holder had around ten different types of limes. Here in Siem Reap, we get these incredibly delicious big juicy green limes, as well as these dry little things with barely any juice. Keep in mind the fish sauce is adding umami.

    They call the long mild red chillies we get here ‘Korean’ chillies. Not sure if that helps – perhaps check at a Korean grocers if you have a Korean community nearby? We adore Calabrian red chillies – we wrote a guidebook to Calabria many years ago and fell in love with them then, but most that we’ve tried have been very spicy – but the chillies in oil would work well, I imagine, like a Southeast Asian or Chinese style chilli oil. Terence has some homemade chilli oil recipes here that might interest you: https://grantourismotravels.com/sichuan-red-chilli-oil-recipe/

    And absolutely, frozen corn would work in winter, and baby corn also – the Thais do use baby corn in their som tams or pounded salads. Grilled chicken is the perfect pairing. Thanks so much for taking the time to share your adaptations – appreciated.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

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This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

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