VIDEO: How long does corn have to cook?
Corn - a versatile plant
With Corn you can be splendid dishes conjure up, but you should choose the right corn. The useful plant is probably one of the best known vegetables the world and can be used as a whole flask or as a harvested, pea-sized vegetable (mostly in cans).
- Corn originally comes from South America and has been a cultivated plant that has been valued for thousands of years. Around 1520, maize also spread throughout Europe. Like millet and sugar cane, maize is one of the "high-performance plants" because it is able to convert a great deal of carbon dioxide into the necessary carbohydrates.
- In Austria, corn is also called kukuruz. Maize is a sweet grass and is divided into fodder maize, energy maize and food maize (sweet maize). The more precise classification takes place in 7 classes (hard, tooth, puffed, sugar, starch, wax, spelled corn) Dem Sweet corn lacks a very specific gene, which means that the sugar does not turn into starch and the grains accordingly shrink.
- So if you want to make popcorn, for example, you should buy suitable popcorn from specialist shops. This is because the nutrient tissue of the puffed corn is quite horn-like and when it is heated, the kernels burst into a large volume.
So it is important that you choose the right corn for cooking, because the right corn doesn't have to cook for a long time as a cob. Always choose the sweet corn for cooking.
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The preparation - sweet corn has to cook for a long enough time
In some restaurants, the sweet corn is cooked on the cob in salted water for only 20 minutes and then simmered water kept until the order is placed. However, you should avoid it, because it would destroy the vitamins.
- You can boil a corn on the cob in salted water for twenty minutes, as described above, then pour it off and brush with a little seasoned butter and serve. For children it is a pleasure to bite into the cooked corn on the cob and adults love this corn on the cob dish as well, although the fibers could get stuck between the teeth. You can therefore also wipe the grains off the piston with a knife.
- It is also popular to brush the corn as a cob with oil and roast it on the grill. As long as the flasks are still surrounded by the protective leaves, you can place them directly in the embers. With this cooking method, you should always check in the meantime whether the grains are already cooked enough. Depending on the size and freshness of the flask, this takes 20 to 30 minutes.
- The corn on the cob will also be tasty if you boil it in milk water, i. H. 500 ml milk and 500 ml of water. Then the corn is grilled on the grill for about five minutes. In the meantime, make some tasty butter. Feel free to experiment a little, e.g. B. Season the softened butter with chopped mint, lime zest, salt and pepper and mix with a lightning chopper.
- Corn kernels separated from the cob usually do not take that long to cook. Separated corn kernels, just like peas, are cooked in just a little salt water. The cooking time and amount of water depends of course on the amount of corn kernels. Put the saucepan on medium heat and let the vegetables boil once and then steep for about 8 to 10 minutes. Check whether the corn is done or whether something needs to be pulled.
