{"id":3530,"date":"2010-07-03T21:29:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T03:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2010-07-03T21:29:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T03:29:51","slug":"corn-and-goat-cheese-salad-with-cilantro-honey-lime-dressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/03\/corn-and-goat-cheese-salad-with-cilantro-honey-lime-dressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Corn and Goat Cheese Salad with Cilantro Honey Lime Dressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have lots of recipes piling up that I want to blog about, but tonight I made the most AMAZING salad that I just had to share first.\u00c2\u00a0 Courtney at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookingupafamily.com\/home\/2010\/6\/24\/chicken-limey-salad.html\">Cooking Up a Family<\/a> recently mentioned a Cilantro Honey Lime Dressing she made, and I thought this would pair perfectly with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/shredded-chicken-taquitos\/\">Shredded Chicken Taquitos<\/a> I had on the menu for dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 This was one of those salads that just came together with ingredients I had on hand already.\u00c2\u00a0 What?\u00c2\u00a0 You don&#8217;t keep goat cheese and Cotija cheese on hand?\u00c2\u00a0 Well you should.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re very versatile cheeses!\u00c2\u00a0 But don&#8217;t worry if you don&#8217;t have the cheese&#8211;the dressing is the star of the show here!\u00c2\u00a0 You could add some grilled chicken or shrimp to make this salad a stand-alone (and stand-out) meal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Corn-and-Goat-Cheese-Salad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3531\" title=\"Corn and Goat Cheese Salad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Corn-and-Goat-Cheese-Salad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Corn-and-Goat-Cheese-Salad.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Corn-and-Goat-Cheese-Salad-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Corn and Goat Cheese Salad with Cilantro Honey Lime Dressing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lettuce (use something extra crispy, like romaine)<\/li>\n<li>Corn<\/li>\n<li>Goat Cheese, crumbled<\/li>\n<li>Avocado, sliced or cut into small chunks<\/li>\n<li>Cotija cheese<\/li>\n<li>Tortilla chips, crumbled<\/li>\n<li>Cilantro Honey Lime Dressing (recipe below)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prepare dressing (recipe below).\u00c2\u00a0 In a large bowl, toss the lettuce with corn, goat cheese, and avocado.\u00c2\u00a0 Toss with dressing.\u00c2\u00a0 Top salads with tortilla chips and Cotija cheese.<\/p>\n<h4>Cilantro Honey Lime Dressing<\/h4>\n<p>recipe from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themotherhuddle.com\/\">The Mother Huddle<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookingupafamily.com\/home\/2010\/6\/24\/chicken-limey-salad.html\">Cooking Up a Family<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 jalapeno, chopped and seeded if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want it  spicy<\/li>\n<li>2 cloves garlic, chopped or crushed<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup fresh lime juice,1 or\u00c2\u00a02 large limes depending on how juicy  they are<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp balsamic vinegar<\/li>\n<li>1\/3 cup honey<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp cumin<\/li>\n<li>1 handful cilantro leaves, about a 1\/4 cup\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6try not to use the stems  it will make it taste soapy<\/li>\n<li>Salt to taste, about, probably 1\/2 tsp<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup canola or olive  oil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Place all ingredients except cilantro  and oil in blender. Pulse until well blended. Add cilantro and pulse a  few more\u00c2\u00a0times. With blender on, slowly pour in oil until mixture  maintains a dressing like consistency. (If using a food processor, start  by pulsing the jalapeno and garlic before adding liquid.) Serve over  salad.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/03\/corn-and-goat-cheese-salad-with-cilantro-honey-lime-dressing\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have lots of recipes piling up that I want to blog about, but tonight I made the most AMAZING salad that I just had to share first.\u00c2\u00a0 Courtney at Cooking Up a Family recently mentioned a Cilantro Honey Lime Dressing she made, and I thought this would pair perfectly with the Shredded Chicken Taquitos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,48,7,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-dish","category-recipes","category-salad","category-side-dish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3533,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}