Tired of guacamole? Ume plum vinegar gives this avocado salad a unique and tasty flavor.
I got the inspiration for this recipe from Donna, a friend of a friend. I call it California Avocado Salad because she’s from California.
Ume Plum Vinegar is an Asian vinegar and can be found in the specialty food aisle of your local supermarket or health food store. (It usually will not be lumped together with the other vinegars.) It has a pungent and salty taste, though, so use it sparingly. If you are watching your sodium intake, substitute additional seasoned rice vinegar. Then season lightly with salt to taste.
California Avocado Salad
Servings
6 Servings
Ingredients
- 1 can sweet yellow corn niblets drained (11-ounce)
- 1 can white shoepeg corn drained (11-ounce)
- 2 ripe Hass avocados peeled, pitted and diced
- 1/2 can hearts of palm drained and cut into bite-sized pieces (15-ounce)
- 15 grape tomatoes halved
- 1/2 small red onion thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
- 2 tablespoon Ume Plum Vinegar
- 2 tablespoon seasoned rice vinegar
Instructions
- Place corn, avocados, hearts of palm, tomatoes, onion, oils and vinegars in a medium salad bowl.
- Toss lightly (you don’t want avocados to get mushy) and serve at room temperature.
If the corn is really fresh and delicious you can just cut off the cob and not even cook it. Or you can cook it on the cob and then cut it off. Either boiled or microwaved.
How would you suggest substituting fresh corn for the canned corn, when fresh is in season?
Hey there – so happy you found us and even more happy to hear you love the salad. Thanks for the pronunciation tip 🙂
Love this salad!! Had it at my boyfriends cousins house – his wife owns the book and I fell in LOVE with this salad when she made it. I forgot what the dressing was and happened upon this website/video so I’m glad I could find it without troubling them 🙂 Btw, “Ume” is pronounced with a “meh” as the final sound – figured I’d pass it along!
YAYEEEE!!! so so happy it’s appealing to you — it’s a total favorite in our house
Oh Susan!!! Thanks so much, hope you love it as much as we do!!! (Heyyyy to everyone in Calsitoga Cali!)
hmmm interesting I buy the Eden Selected brand $3.99 for a 10oz bottle – it’s delish!
Just love your recipes !! They are so fresh and creative. The corn avacado salad looks amazing. Cant wait to try it! S. Kopperman , Calsitoga CA
I found the ume plum vinegar on amazon. The price range for this vinegar is huge. Does it matter which one I buy or is there some explanation for the price range?
LOL!!! Hey Laura — Happy Holidays to you!!! enJOY the salad. Israel is more than I dreamed it would be! Love right back at you!
I am going to make this salad at Christmaas. Oops, now you know I am not Jewish :). I love watching JLTV, I have learned a lot. Love your shows. Hope I can find the ume plum vinager. If not I will double up on the rice vin as suggested in an earlier post. Hope Isreal is everything you dreamed it would be. Love, Laura
hey great eyes! sorry about that I explain it in the video — sometimes in place of or in addition to the avocado I add shelled edamame.
It looks like there’s edamame in the picture. But not in the recipe. Is it meant to be included?
what an awesome small world!!! Thanks so much for your support! Hope you loved the salad! Here are some more videos with the good Rabbi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Are6JZvUQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkBnjnfCvUU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erhk1fK2HjY
Jamie,
I have been watching your show almost religiously ever since I found out I had JLTV, and stumbling upon this episode was awesome. I recognized Rabbi Lawrence immediately! (My husband was a member of JEC)
This salad was absolutely amazing and had my tastebuds to tingling till the last corn kernel! I am definitely making this again for every Shabbat dinner!
Thank You!
yay Lucinda!!! I am crazy for this dressing (the vinegars and oils smell and taste DIVINE!) use it on a green leafy salad as well.
Just made this today. I waited until the umi plum vinegar came in the mail to do it. It was so worth it! My youngest son and I ate almost the whole thing for lunch! The scent was amazing!
Oh I am SOOOO happy – its is an absolute favorite – really I make it all the time and get requests for it from guests :-)! Hope you love it as much as we do.
I have done that too in a pinch!
Saw this video last night on JLTV in Los Angeles. Going to my kosher supermarket Cambridge Farms in Valley Village, on the way home from work today, to buy the ingredients to make this dish. Sounds yummy. Just the thing to go with a light summer meal.
I’ve substituted the Season Rice Vinegar for the Ume Plum Vinegar and it was still delicious!