Mexican Avenue Corn Dip Recipe

Think about sitting poolside sipping on a cool beverage (extremely advocate a pineapple margarita with this dip), watching children splash round within the pool, and snacking on a flavorful dip made with recent corn, cilantro, cotija, and extra. Once I served this dip to my husband, he mentioned, “I closed my eyes and awoke in Tijuana!”

Mexican avenue corn dip is the get together good dip and I simply comprehend it’s going to turn out to be a summer season favourite of yours. Though, remember to strive the deli copycat Mexicali dip or heat tacky jalapeño popper dip, too.

Mexican Avenue Corn Dip

Tastes like elote. This recipe relies on the favored avenue corn bought in Mexico known as “elote”. Elote is grilled or roasted corn on the cob, slathered with mayo or Mexican crema and rolled in crumbled cotija cheese. It’s seasoned with salt, chili powder, and lime juice.

Simpler to eat than elote. Mexican avenue corn dip has all of the sunny flavors of Mexican corn-on-the-cob (elote) besides with out the mess of getting to eat the corn off the cob, cheese falling off (THE WORST), and stuff getting caught in your enamel.

Plus tortilla chips! And don’t neglect, with a dip you get to get pleasure from tortilla chips, too. All the time an excellent factor! (Do you know it’s really easy to make your individual baked tortilla chips or air fryer tortilla chips?)

Ingredient Notes

• Corn: Recent corn reduce off the cob has the most effective taste however drained canned corn or frozen corn are good substitutes if recent corn isn’t in season. Corn is the primary ingredient of this dip so use the most effective tasting corn you will discover. Should you like, char the corn flippantly in a grill pan or on the grill for extra genuine Mexican avenue corn taste.
• Purple Bell Pepper: Finely diced bell pepper provides colour, taste, and a pleasant crunch. Use no matter colour bell pepper you want greatest.
• Canned Chopped Inexperienced Chiles: I like canned chopped inexperienced chiles and use them usually. Attempt my inexperienced chile mac and cheese recipe!
• Cotija Cheese: Should you’re not aware of cotija cheese, it’s a Mexican selection that’s created from cows’ milk and has a crumbly texture and salty taste, considerably much like feta cheese. Search for the aged cheese, not recent.
• Recent Cilantro: Use the leaves and small stems. It’s so good on this dip!
• Lime Juice: Squeeze your individual, don’t be tempted to make use of bottled juice.
• Chili Powder: A mix of spices that normally contains salt. Purchase your favourite model.
• Inexperienced Onions: Present loads of recent onion taste with out overpowering the dip.
• Mayonnaise: The bottom of this dip is mayonnaise. We examined the recipe utilizing Greek yogurt as a substitute of mayonnaise, and a yogurt/mayo mixture however the dip tends to get watery with yogurt.

How To Make Mexican Avenue Corn Dip

Make the dressing. In a big mixing bowl, mix collectively the mayonnaise, lime juice, chili powder, and salt.

Add remaining components. Stir within the corn, inexperienced chiles, cheese, cilantro, crimson bell peppers, and inexperienced onions. Stir flippantly till every part is combined properly.

Test seasoning. Style the dip and add extra salt or chili powder, if wanted.

Serve. Spoon the dip right into a serving dish and serve instantly or refrigerate till able to serve. Garnish with further chopped cilantro and cotija cheese, if desired.

Recipe Variations

Make a salad. Add a scoop of Mexican avenue corn salad and a grilled hen breast to shredded lettuce and you’ve got an immediate major course salad!

Add bacon. Why not stir crumbled cooked bacon into this dip? It’s straightforward to make just a few strips of bacon while you make air fryer bacon.

Make a pasta salad as a substitute. Should you love Mexican avenue corn, you need to do that Mexican avenue corn pasta salad! It’s at all times an enormous hit at picnics.

Reasonably have a heat dip? Do this tacky baked corn casserole with bacon and jalapeño. It’s so creamy that it makes a beautiful dip though it’s a casserole recipe.

Retailer leftover dip within the fridge in a lined container for as much as three days. Stir earlier than serving.

• In a big bowl, whisk collectively mayonnaise, lime juice, chili powder, and salt.

  ⅓ cup mayonnaise, 2 tablespoons lime juice, 1 teaspoon chili powder, or to style, ¼ teaspoon kosher salt

• Add corn, inexperienced chiles, cotija cheese, cilantro, bell pepper, inexperienced onion and stir till mixed.

  3 cups corn kernels, 1 can (4 oz.) chopped inexperienced chiles, ½ cup crumbled cotija cheese, ¼ cup minced recent cilantro leaves, ¼ cup finely diced crimson bell peppers, 2 inexperienced onions, minced

• Style and season with further salt and chili powder, as wanted.

• Spoon into serving dish. Garnish with further cotija, cilantro, and/or chili powder if desired. Serve with tortilla chips.

• Corn choices: Should you like, you may char the recent corn on the grill or in a grill pan earlier than slicing it off the cob. You may also use canned or frozen corn. If utilizing canned corn, drain 2 cans of corn (15 oz. every) properly. If utilizing frozen corn (one 16 oz. bag incorporates 3 cups), thaw in a single day within the fridge earlier than getting ready the recipe.
• Make it a meal: Prime chopped romaine lettuce with a scoop of corn dip and grilled hen.
• Storage: Refrigerate corn dip in an hermetic container for as much as 3 days. Stir properly earlier than serving.
• Recipe retested and revised 2/2025.

Serving: 0.5cup, Energy: 136kcal, Carbohydrates: 11g, Protein: 3g, Fats: 10g, Saturated Fats: 2g, Polyunsaturated Fats: 5g, Monounsaturated Fats: 2g, Trans Fats: 0.02g, Ldl cholesterol: 12mg, Sodium: 422mg, Potassium: 130mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 3g, Vitamin A: 302IU, Vitamin C: 14mg, Calcium: 57mg, Iron: 1mg

Vitamin info is robotically calculated, so ought to solely be used as an approximation.

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