Boiled young corn on the cob for its popularity can be compared to watermelons or ice cream . Few can give up the captivating aroma of freshly brewed summer treats and the delicate taste of milk kernels.
At home, it will not be difficult to cook young corn. Just need to choose the right cob and determine the time of their cooking. Cook corn can be traditionally in a saucepan or use a steamer, multivarka or microwave.
How to choose a young corn on the cob?
If you want to get a really soft and delicate taste of the seeds, then it is necessary to take only food, sugar varieties, but not fodder for cooking the young corn. Even with prolonged cooking, the forage or overgrown cobs will remain harsh and dryish to the taste, and it is unlikely to enjoy the usual delicacy.
A suitable product has a milk structure of grains with a splashing milk when pressed on them. The color of this corn is light cream, almost white, and the husk is green with a little darkened and dried on the tip, but fresh inside the stigmas. Of course, the ideal option for cooking will be recently ripped off the cob. But not always and not everyone has such an opportunity. When buying corn on the market or in a store, we choose cobs with green, by no means dried, husk and with damp, slightly sticky stigma under it.
How correctly to cook a young corn in the cob?
Young cobs of sugar corn are saved from leaves, stigmas and rods and washed with cold water. We put them in a pan or any other container of the appropriate size and poured until full coverage with water. It is also possible to use peeled husks and stigmas when cooking, laying them on the bottom and over the cobs. Thus, the corn is more aromatic and juicier.
Add salt to the water to taste and sugar from the calculation of one teaspoon per liter of water. This is a traditional recipe for cooking corn cobs, which, if desired, can be changed according to your preferences, and add new ingredients, spices or at all to cook the dish in its pure form, and season already ready cobs.
Depending on the degree of ripeness, cook corn from twenty to forty minutes. Readiness is checked by picking one grain with a fork and tasting it. If you decide to cook corn varieties or overripe varieties in spite of everything, then the time for cooking should be increased to three or even five hours.
How to cook a young corn in a steamer?
If there is a steamer, you can successfully use it to cook young corn. Moreover, with this method of preparation, the maximum of useful properties will remain, and the taste will be rich and fragrant.
To do this, place in a greased container of the device peeled off the husks and stigmas, the corn cobs and prepare for forty minutes. You can clean the corn after cooking. In this case cooking will take a little longer.
How to cook corn in a microwave in a package?
In order to prepare the young corn in a microwave oven, soak untreated cobs for one hour in cold water, and then put in a plastic bag. Add to it two tablespoons of water, pierce it from above in several places and tie it. After fifteen minutes of cooking at high power, the corn will be ready. We give it a little cool, clean and we can enjoy your favorite taste.
Finished aromatic corn cobs can optionally be seasoned with butter , various topings or sauces, and served with grated cheese or simply salt.