Summer Tomato and Edamame Salad

The simplest of dishes, this summer tomato and edamame salad doesn’t really require a recipe with certain amounts that must be followed, although I’ll give you mine below. The important thing is to use the best summer tomatoes you can find – homegrown, if possible, vine-ripened, full of flavor – drizzled with the best quality extra virgin olive oil and aged balsamic vinegar.

That combination, along with a sprinkling of shelled edamame, makes this a fabulous fresh salad full of the flavors of summer. Sometimes the simplest salads are the best.

Another tasty recipe for Salad Month
Edamame is one of those ingredients I keep on hand always, in the freezer, for times when I need a little something extra in a salad or soup. Not only are they a lovely green color but they are nutritionally rich, with vitamins, protein and fiber. You can buy them in the pods, which make for a great snack, or already peeled.

Summer Tomato and Edamame Salad

Ingredients
4-5 ripe summer tomatoes
Flakey sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1/3 cup or 50g shelled edamame
1/2 small onion, minced
Good quality extra virgin olive oil
Good quality balsamic vinegar

Method
Slice the tomatoes and lay them out on a big plate. Season with the sea salt and black pepper.

Sprinkle on the minced onions and edamame. Drizzle the lot with the olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

Seriously, that’s all there is to it. This summer tomato and edamame salad lets the tomatoes shine, with an added boost of protein and fiber from the legumes. Totally delicious AND healthy.

Enjoy!

Have I convinced you to join me for Salad Month? Here are a few of my other recipes you might like to try:

• Summertime Fresh Corn Salad 
• Sweet Potato French Bean Lentil Salad 
• Quick Pickled Beet Salad 
• Coronation Chicken Salad 
• Roasted Savoy Cabbage Slaw with Spicy Bacon Dressing 

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Grilled Corn Ravioli Caprese Salad

Nothing shouts summer like a Caprese salad with lovely deep red, vine-ripened tomatoes, except perhaps a grilled corn ravioli Caprese salad. The smokey sweet corn adds more summer sunshine and the ravioli make this tasty dish more filling.

I love corn on the cob cooked anyhow you’d like to cook it. Boiled, steamed, grilled, roasted - love them all. I could cook a pot of fresh corn on the cob and eat the whole thing and call it a meal, no other dishes necessary. But for this week’s Sunday Supper theme of summer corn, that hardly sounded like a recipe worth sharing.

Cook corn on the cob.
Slather with butter.
Sprinkle with salt.
Eat.
Repeat.

So I had to get creative. Inspiration struck when I came across a package of fresh Italian ravioli called Girasole or sunflowers. They were shaped like flowers, the outside pasta cut like tiny petals, and were filled with tomato, mozzarella and olives. They would be perfect for adding to a Caprese salad, topped with grilled sweet corn! You can certainly use whatever ravioli you have available, though I'd avoid ones with meat or seafood if you are serving this at room temperature and need to leave it unrefrigerated for a while.

Grilled Corn Ravioli Caprese Salad

Recipe Type: Salad

Author: Stacy Rushton

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 16 mins

Total time: 31 mins

Serves: 6

Vine-ripened tomatoes layered with ravioli, fresh mozzarella and basil, then topped with grilled sweet corn. Like summer should always be.

Ingredients

• 1 package - about 9 oz or 250g fresh ravioli
• 4-5 ripe summer tomatoes
• 2 small ears sweet corn on the cob
• 9 oz or 250g fresh mozzarella
• small bunch fresh basil
• sea salt for salad plus more for water to boil ravioli
• black pepper
• good extra virgin olive oil

Method
Boil the ravioli according to package instructions, in salted water. Drain and cover with a damp cloth to keep the ravioli from drying out. If you are a perfectionist - as I can be sometimes - count the ravioli. Now you know how many slices to cut the tomatoes and mozzarella into to make it all come out even.

Grill the corn on grill pan over a medium high heat until it has lovely grill marks all over. Turn every couple of minutes till done. Remove from the heat and allow to cool. When the cobs are cool enough to handle, cut the niblets off with a sharp knife.

Slice your tomatoes and your mozzarella. (See comment on ravioli above.)

Pick the leaves off of the basil and discard the stalks. Set aside the smallest ones for garnish and cut any large ones in two.

On a large platter, start arranging your salad: ravioli, mozzarella, tomato, basil. Repeat until you have used up all of your ingredients.

Sprinkle on the corn and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Give the whole salad a good drizzle of extra virgin olive oil then sprinkle on the remaining basil.

Enjoy! 

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If you love sweet summer corn, you are going to love the line up my Sunday Supper family has for you today! Many thanks to Ellen from Family Around the Table who is our host this week, and our event manager, Renee of Renee's Kitchen Adventures.

Appetizers

• Bacon and Corn Chowder by Latin Meet Lagniappe
• Cajun Baked Shrimp and Corn Dip by The Weekend Gourmet
• Cheesy Corn Tomato Tartlets by Sunday Supper Movement
• Cheesy Grilled Corn Dip by Helpful Homemade
• Crab & Jalapeño Hush Puppies by Simply Healthy Family
• Grilled Corn Salsa by A Mind “Full” Mom
• Indian Cheese Corn Toast: Popular Vegetarian Recipe by Easy Cooking with Molly
• Roasted Corn and Tomato Bruschetta by Monica's Table

Breakfast and Salads

• Blueberry Masa Harina Pancakes by Magnolia Days
• Grilled Corn Ravioli Caprese Salad by Food Lust People Love
• Grilled Corn and Avocado Salad by Garden Matter
• Grilled Tri Tip and Roasted Corn Salad by The Freshman Cook
• Healthy Corn, Edamame & Avocado Salad by Food Done Light
• Summer Vegetable Salad by That Skinny Chick Can Bake

Side Dishes

• A-maize-ing Maple Cornbread by Family Around The Table
• Blueberry and Corn Skillet Bread by Wholistic Woman
• Corn Pudding by Bottom Left of the Mitten
• Corn Pudding with Jalapeños and Chiles by Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks
• Easy Addictive Corn by Fantastical Sharing of Recipes
• Galey iyo Qumbo (Somali Corn in Coconut Sauce) by Tara’s Multicultural Table
• Honey Cornbread Muffins by Life Tastes Good
• Mealie Bread (South African Sweetcorn Bread) by Curious Cuisiniere
• Jalapeño Popper Cornbread Muffins by The Crumby Cupcake
• Peruvian Grilled Street Corn by Cupcakes & Kale Chips
• Skillet Corn with Bacon by Cosmopolitan Cornbread
• Skillet Fried Corn by New South Charm
• Skillet Jalapeño Cornbread by Grumpy's Honeybunch

Main Dishes

• Black Bean Corn Casserole by Cindy’s Recipes and Writings
• Cornbread Waffles with Pulled Pork by Renee’s Kitchen Adventures
• Fresh Corn Fettuccine by Sew You Think You Can Cook
• Fresh Corn Polenta with Summer Vegetables by Caroline's Cooking
• Pasta with Creamy Corn Sauce and Summer Vegetables by Delaware Girl Eats
• Polenta Stuffed Peppers by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Shrimp Corn Chowder by Feeding Big and More

Desserts

• Blackberry Cornbread Buckle by Pies and Plots
• Brazilian Corn Cookies by What Smells So Good?
• Easy Cornmeal Budino with Blueberry Marmellata by Cooking With Carlee
• Mais Con Hielo-Corn on Ice by Asian In America
• Margarita Popcorn by The Redhead Baker
• Sweet Corn Ice Cream by Baking Sense

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