With the onset of the season of vegetables, berries and fruits, you can enjoy the taste of sweet and sunny corn with pleasure. Dishes using corn are tasty, bright and healthy. This cereal can be used in soups, salads, side dishes and baked goods, as well as simply boiled. Let's see how easy it is to cook corn.
How to choose corn
In order for corn dishes to be tasty, you need to choose a young cereal. Better to take a slightly unripe ear. It is this kind of corn that can be purchased in the summer season (in July or at the end of August). When corn becomes overripe, it is best not to eat it.
Buy only brown corn, as it stays fresh and juicy for much longer. The leaves should be well entwined around the cob, green and fresh. The grains of young corn are the same, have a light yellow color. The younger your corn is, the sweeter and more aromatic the dishes from it will turn out, because the sugar in it has not yet had time to turn into starch.
You need to peel the corn right before you start cooking it, otherwise it will dry out and not be so juicy. You can cook corn in all sorts of ways, such as in a saucepan, microwave, or double boiler. You can also bake corn in butter in the oven.
How to cook corn
You will need:
- corn - 4 pcs.;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- butter - 50 g;
- salt - 1 tsp;
- thyme, basil - to taste.
Cut out the required number of corncob-sized pieces from baking paper and foil. Remove the butter from the refrigerator: it should melt a little. Peel and chop the garlic, wash the thyme and basil and chop finely. Add herbs, garlic and salt to the oil, mix well.
For corn, remove the leaves, hairs, rinse and then pat dry and brush the corncob with the oil mixture, then wrap each in parchment paper and then in foil. Place the corn cobs on a baking sheet, and then place them in the oven for 20-30 minutes at a temperature of up to 220 degrees.
Also, corn can be cooked not only in the oven, but for example, on the grill. Then she will acquire a pleasant scent of smoke. Your favorite spices can be added to the butter for an original flavor. Corn prepared in this way can be eaten by itself, and also used as a side dish, for example, for meat or barbecue.
