Roasted Corn and Radish Salad with Avocado Herb Dressing

Ingredients

  • Avocado-Herb Dress ing:
  • 112 ripe peeled avocado, sliced
  • 1 teaspoon fresh lime juice
  • 2 ears yellow corn with husks
  • 2 heads Boston or Bibb lettuce
  • 112 cup thinly sliced radishes
  • 1/2 cup Avocado-Herb Dressing
  • 1/2 cup light mayonnaise
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped green
  • onions
  • 1/4 cup reduced-fat sour cream
  • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh
  • flat-lea' parsley
  • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh ch ives
  • 1 teaspoon chopped fresh
  • tarragon
  • 1 teaspoon anchovy paste
  • 1 /a teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 r ipe peeled avocad o
  • 1 g arlic dove, minced
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
  • 3 drops hot sauce

Preparation

Step 1

1. Preheat oven to 450·.
2. Combine sliced avocado and juice
in a small bowl; cover and refrigerate .
Trim both ends ofcorn cobs, leaving
husks from corn in tact. Place the
corn on a baking sheet. Bake at 450·
for 20 minutes or until tender. Cool.
Remove husks from corn; scrub silks
from corn. Cut kernels from ears of
corn; discard cobs.
3. Reserve 4 whole lettuce leaves.
Chop remaining lettuce to measure 4
cups. Combine chopped lettuce,
avocado mixtu re, corn, and radishes.
Spoon lettuce mixture into lettuce
leaves. Serve with Avocado-Herb
Dressing. Yield: 4 servings (serving
size: 1 lettuce leaf, 1 cup salad, and 2
tablespoons dressing)

Dressing

1. Combine first 10 ingredient s in a
food processor; proce ss until smooth.
With the processor running, pour
water, vinegar, and hot sauce through
food chute , processing until blended.
Store the dressing in an airtight conta
iner in ref rigerator.Yield: 1~ cups
(serving size: 1 tablespoon).