Chipotle Corn Cakes with Avocado & Goat Cheese Salsa

I found this recipe on Naturally Ella, a lovely site that has all kinds of excellent clean recipes. When I made it, I messed it up entirely — I was out of my usual GF King Arthur so used brown rice flour, and I didn't get enough in the mix, because my adorable patties fell apart the first time I tried to flip them. So. I ended up mixing it all together in the pan in a hash, and it was DIVINE. Feel free to screw up the way I did, you won't regret it.

Ingredients

For the Corn Cakes:

  • 1 tablespoon olive oil

  • ½ red onion, finely diced

  • 2 ears sweet corn, or 1 ½ cups frozen corn

  • ⅓‐⅔ cup pastry flour (for you GF folks, use GF King Arthur or rice flour)

  • ¼ teaspoon baking powder

  • 1 egg

  • 1 tablespoon honey

  • 2 tablespoons lime juice

  • ¼ teaspoon salt

  • ¼ cup cilantro

For the Avocado and Goat Cheese salsa:

  • 1 ripe avocado

  • 1 tablespoon lime juice

  • 2 tablespoons minced red onion

  • 2 tablespoon minced cilantro

  • Sprinkle of salt and pepper

  • 1–2 ounces goat cheese

Directions

For the Corn Cakes:

  1. Heat ½ tablespoon olive oil over medium heat in a skillet. Add in onions and cook until translucent, 4–5 minutes.

  2. Remove corn from cob (if using ears) and stir in to onions, continuing to cook until corn becomes soft, 4–5 minutes.

  3. Remove from heat and place mixture in a bowl. Add ⅓ cup flour, baking powder, egg, honey, lime juice, salt, and cilantro; stir until well combine. Add more flour until mixture pulls together and can form patties.

  4. Divide batter in to 5–6 patties.

  5. Heat ½ tablespoon olive oil over medium heat. Place patties in the skillet, and pat the patties until they are one‐inch thick.

  6. Fry on each side for 5–6 minutes. Each side should be browned.

  7. Top patties with avocado and goat cheese salsa.

For the Avocado and Goat Cheese salsa:

  1. Remove the skin and pit from the avocado and cut into cubes. Toss with lime juice, red onion, cilantro, and salt/pepper. (Chef JT's note — this is also possibly the best fresh guacamole recipe ever. I didn't have red onion so used white and it was awesome.)

  2. Gently fold goat cheese into the salsa.

  3. Devour!

Vegetarian, SidesJ.T. EllisonComment