Fresh Peach and Corn Salsa

A fresh salsa perfect for summer snacking! Fresh corn and peaches tossed with spicy cilantro-lime mix uses the best of summer produce. Got your chips ready?

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One of the best things about eating with the seasons is the utter satisfaction of meals made with ingredients picked at their perfect ripeness. Think of strawberries in November, corn on the cob in January, tomatoes in March . . . they do not satiate you in as satisfying a way as their counterparts eaten 6 months later when locally available. [I'm speaking to my fellow Midwesterners and middle-of-the-East Coasters here, folks used to temperate climes. For those readers in tropical climates your ripening schedule mileage will indeed vary.]

We eat a lot of salsa around here. It's an after school snack for the kids, an "I just walked in the door from work and I'm STARVING" snack for my spouse, a bit of local food with many meals, and one of my most successful canning projects. Even though I put up plenty of tomato-based salsas, Salsa Verde with Roasted Hatch Chiles, Peach Salsa with Golden Plums, and Roasted Corn and Hatch Chile Salsa, I'm still lured by the availability of fresh seasonal produce.

When you've got a pile of ripe produce--gorge away, and then have at this salsa. The longest step, cooking the corn, can be done ahead of time. My eyes are always bigger than our bellies when I'm buying fresh ears of corn at the farmer's market, and corn is best when cooked soon after picking, so I always cook the whole batch at once and then use the cooked corn later. This peach and corn salsa is quick to make and easy to enjoy. May I suggest a Cheater Margarita Smoothie as the perfect summer sipper?

For more recipes using corn, please see my Recipes Using Corn Collection. For more recipes using peaches, please see my Peach Recipes Collection. For more recipes using peppers, please see my Pepper Recipes Collection. These collections are part of the Visual Recipe Index by Ingredient, a resource for folks like me eating from the farm share, the farmer's market, the garden, the neighbor's garden, and great deals on ugly produce at the grocery store.

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Fresh Corn and Peach Salsa
By Kirsten Madaus

A fresh salsa perfect for summer snacking! Fresh corn and peaches tossed with spicy cilantro-lime  mix uses the best of summer produce. Got your chips ready?

Prep time: 00:20
Cook time: 00:00
Total time: 00:10

Yield: enough for a party

Ingredients:
4 cups corn kernels (cooked and cut from the cob, can be thawed from frozen)
2 cups finely chopped peaches (from 1 large peach)
1 cup finely chopped sweet onion
1 jalapeño, seeded and finely chopped
½ cup packed cilantro leaves, chopped
juice from ½ a lime
¾ teaspoon salt (I use kosher, and you may want more to taste)
¼ teaspoon ground cumin
about ¼ teaspoon freshly ground pepper (you may want more to taste)

Instructions:

In a large bowl, combine all ingredients until well mixed. Let rest on counter 10 minutes until flavors have a chance to blend. Serve with chips, over fish, whatever tickles your fancy.