Apache CSV - Convert List<String> to CSVRecord

I'm inclined to use CSVRecord because it can be used to map with a header and get the corresponding value. My application frequently uses CSVRecord class. However, I cannot instantiate the CSVRecord. I would prefer not to modify the source/create a new class since it already provides a parser that returns CSVRecord. I have got a list of strings (header as well as the values) that needed to be converted to the CSVRecord type. Is there a direct way that this can be done without going around with formatting and then parsing back? Like the one below:

private CSVRecord format(List<String> header, List<String> values)
{
    CSVFormat csvFormat = CSVFormat.DEFAULT.withRecordSeparator(System.lineSeparator())
            .withQuoteMode(QuoteMode.ALL);
    CSVRecord csvRecord = null;
    final StringWriter out = new StringWriter();
    try (CSVPrinter csvPrinter = new CSVPrinter(out, csvFormat);)
    {
        csvPrinter.printRecord(values);
        String value = out.toString().trim();
        for (CSVRecord r : CSVParser.parse(value, csvFormat.withHeader(header.toArray(new String[header.size()]))))
            csvRecord = r;
    }
    catch (IOException e)
    {
        logger.error("Unable to format the Iterable to CSVRecord. Header: [{}]; Values: [{}]", e,
                String.join(", ", header), String.join(", ", values));
    }
    return csvRecord;
}

private void testMethod() throws Exception
{
    List<String> header = Arrays.asList("header1", "header2", "header3");
    List<String> record = Arrays.asList("val1", "val2", "val3");
    CSVRecord csvRecord = format(header, record);
    logger.info("{}", csvRecord.get("header2"));
}