Boiled corn – excellent addition to various dishes. Tasty and very nutritive, it is irreplaceable on a table during the summer period. So, as it is correct to cook corn that it turned out really tasty.
How much time you need to cook corn?
Define to what grade the corn acquired by you belongs. Exist as the special grades suitable for consumption for people, and fodder which are used for animals. How many time it is necessary to cook a mealie of an edible grade? As it softer, is quite enough 30 minutes. And here more rigid fodder it is required to cook long enough - from 2 to 3 hours.
If you got in the market or in shop saw corn and only houses that on an ear there are multi-colored fine grains, don't use it better. Such grade intends for preparation of popcorn.
Fans to experiment can use an interesting way of preparation of corn in an oven. Rub ears with a desi and inwrap them in a foil, previously having put a fennel branch there. To impact a pungent flavor, it is possible to rub corn with garlic slightly.
How it is correct to cook vegetable?
Having decided on time of cooking of corn, choose a way of its preparation. When cleaning ears it is desirable not to throw out leaves. It is better to wash out their baking plate a stream of warm water, and then to lay on a pan bottom. From above it is necessary to lay ears then to fill in everything with water. Put a pan on fire. When water begins to boil, it is necessary to salt it (to taste). To impact to corn more saturated relish, spicy and appetizing aroma, you can add to water with salt a small amount of spices, for example, allspice peas.
Not to be mistaken when choosing soft corn, pay attention not only to ears, but also to leaves: they have to be bright green and intact.
It is correct to cook corn it is necessary in a thick-walled pan as time of its preparation takes quite long time. The cover should be closed densely. It is very good to prepare ears in a pig-iron pan. Also it is allowed to cook them in the microwave oven or in the double boiler. It is very simple to prepare corn and in the pressure cooker - it saves both time, and forces. Such way of cooking will take no more than 5-10 minutes. It is necessary to consider that corn right after cooling begins to harden and become rigid. Therefore it is desirable to give on a table the welded corn hot, at once after its preparation. That ears long kept the pleasant aroma, unique taste and softness, you can grease them with a desi. For gourmets it is possible to give corn, having strewed it with a grated cheese.
How to cook old corn?
If you saw that in the center of grains there are dimples, so mealies old. It is possible to cook them, of course, however they will be rather rigid, irrespective of a way and preparation time.
It is much simpler to prepare fresh corn as it gentle and quickly cooks.
If you don't want to throw out such ears, use small cunnings at their cooking. It is necessary to prepare old corn as well as young. The only difference consists in cooking time. If ears at you lay only 2-3 days, they need to be prepared for only 20 minutes longer. However for ears which were stored the whole week it is required to increase cooking time for 1-1.5 hours.