Grilled Salmon is a favorite around our house, it’s so easy to grill salmon! Salmon gets lots of flavor from a sweet and spicy rub and then is paired with a delicious corn vinaigrette in this Red Chile Rubbed Salmon with Toasted Corn Vinaigrette.
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Boy Meet Grill Bobby Flay
Anyone else love used book stores? I do. I can spend hours going up and down the aisles, searching for treasures. Of course, I spend an inordinate amount of time in the cookbook session. Even though I have deeply curtailed my cookbook purchases, I couldn’t resist Bobby Flay’s Boy Meets Grill.
I love grilling cookbooks because they almost always contain wonderful marinades and rubs and various salsas and side dishes to serve with whatever you’ve grilled. Boy Meets Grill did not disappoint!
Grilled Salmon with Toasted Corn Vinaigrette
Every single recipe in the book sounded amazing and I settled on Red Chile Rubbed Salmon with Toasted Corn Vinaigrette. Corn is just starting to hit the markets and this was perfect! It sounded easy and delicious and it was! The salmon gets a ton of flavor from the rub and the corn is so sweet and flavorful!
My favorite grilling picks: Grill Brush, Vegetable Grill Basket, and Smoker Box.
Chile Rubbed Salmon with Toasted Corn Vinaigrette
Ingredients
Red Chile Rub
- 1/2 cup ancho chile powder
- 2 teaspoons cumin
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- Olive oil
- 4 6 ounce salmon steaks
- Salt and pepper
Toasted Corn Vinaigrette
- 2 ears corn husk removed
- 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
- 1 jalapeno grilled, seeded and chopped
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 2 green onion , finely sliced (white and 2 inches of the green)
- 3 tablespoons chopped cilantro
Instructions
- Preheat grill to medium high.
- Combine the chile powder, cumin, brown sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Brush the salmon with the olive oil and spread 1 tablespoon of the rub on one side and season with salt and pepper. Grill rub side down for about 2 to 3 minutes, turn over and grill for about 3-4 more minutes.
- To make the toasted corn vinaigrette, first blanch the corn in a pot of boiling water for about 5 minutes. Then place on the grill, turning often, until slightly charred, about 2 minutes. Remove from the grill and use a knife to scrape the kernels off into a bowl. Whisk together the lime juice, honey and jalapeno. Slowly whisk in the olive oil . Pour over the corn, season with salt and pepper, add the onions and cilantro and toss to combine.
- Serve each salmon filet topped with some of the corn vinaigrette.
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Alison's Allspice says
June 7, 2017 at 2:43 pmI love that toasted corn vinaigrette! Perfect for the spicy salmon, yum! Pinned for later, Thanks!
Tina Culbertson says
June 7, 2017 at 12:24 pmI think that rub sounds amazing. We are picking up salmon tonight so I may give this a try. Don’t have the chili though but I can substitute. You can’t have too many cookbooks!
Lots of my books have been donated too. The Kindle and the Kindle app on my tablet are my favored way to read but I still have lots of hardcover books. It’s good to pass some on to others who will enjoy them.
Ann says
June 7, 2017 at 4:37 amI have donated all but a handful of cookbooks. Mostly I surf the interwebs for recipes the days. We spell the fiery pepper chilli and the country Chile. True story.
Sandee says
June 6, 2017 at 6:04 pmOh yummy on the salmon. i don’t know about the cinnamon though. l Just saying.
Hubby has a Kindle but I’m still reading books. We have tons of books. Old books, and tons of cookbooks with everything imaginable. We could probably fill the two bookcases we have with just the cookbooks.
Have a fabulous day. ☺
Sandi (@fearless_dining) says
June 25, 2016 at 1:06 amMy teen has at least 100 paperback books in her room…wish she would read on a Kindle or Nook. She is running out of room in in her room 🙂
Jennifer A Stewart says
June 22, 2016 at 10:23 pmI have a large cookbook collection but I got mine from a mail order book club about 12 years ago. I would never give them up. I love getting inspiration from them! Plus the stories are amazing! The older ones especially! I love the heat in this salmon dish and I know it will be perfect for grilling this summer!
swathiiyer says
June 20, 2016 at 5:39 pmThat salmon and corn sounds delicious meal, thanks for sharing with Hearth and soul blog hop, pinning
Michele says
June 20, 2016 at 9:37 amI have that cookbook too…. how have I missed the roasted corn vinegarette recipe? It sounds like it would work with all sorts of things yummy! I love used bookstores too…. Found a great one a couple of years ago on a weekend vacation In Portland Or~~~ it is 4 stories high and is a whole block…. If you ever get to Portland, plan on a whole day there…. Its called Powell’s!
Meghan | Fox and Briar says
June 19, 2016 at 3:26 pmI am the same way with books, I never know if or when I will use them so I just hoard them. But good things come from that, like this salmon! Wow, that chile rub and toasted corn!! So good!
jane @ littlesugarsnaps says
June 18, 2016 at 7:47 amBig mistake to look at your recipes when I’m hungry Pam (Pamela!!!) – they always intensify my need for food. My man would love this too as those chilli additions are right up his street. I’ve spent the last few years reading some of my childhood classics to my oldest daughter – mine come with fancy stick in labels on which I have my full maiden name written in my neatest writing of 30ish years ago. Oh and my last visit to my parents I ‘borrowed’ a book dating back to my Dad’s childhood with the intention it starring in a foodie photo. Book maniac alert.
Miz Helen says
June 17, 2016 at 12:01 pmThis would be a delicious meal that I would just love! Hope you have a very special Fathers Day Weekend and thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
Come Back Soon!
Miz Helen
Tracy says
June 15, 2016 at 3:02 pmI’m so with you and cookbooks! I have sooo many that I haven’t opened in so long but I can’t imagine getting rid of them! I may need them! I love love love this dish- it looks amazing!
Michelle @ Giraffes Can Bake says
June 13, 2016 at 1:52 pmThis salmon looks sooooo yummy, I only recently started eating salmon so I’m always looking for good recipes to try – bookmarking this one!
I don’t actually own a lot of cookbooks, I have a few but I rarely use them. I guess I am a product of the digital age, I always turn to the net for recipes!
Ann says
June 11, 2016 at 10:55 pmLast year I rationalised my cook books, keeping just the ones I use regularly or whose beautiful photography brings me pleasure. Your salmon and corn dish looks fun as well as tasty.
Louise says
June 10, 2016 at 7:59 amHi Pam,
People ask me all the time whether I use all of my cookbooks. When I tell them no and usually add in “I rarely cook,” lol, it really sends them in a whirl! I guess it gets to a point that when you have more than a couple of hundred, or even thousands, you become a collector and then people stop asking, we’ll see one day, lol…
I’m really liking this Salmon recipe but it’s the Toasted Corn Vinaigrette that has me excited. I’ve been buying Trader Joe’s roasted corn lately and I love it. It’s about time I try to make my own version, or in this case yours and Bobby Flay’s.
Thanks so much for sharing, Pam…