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Iowa Skillet Sweet Corn
- Easy
- 25 min
- roughly 2 of 4 for cost
- Vegetarian
Leads with richness that coats and comforts, fresh herbs arguing happily on top.
Ingredients
- 8 ears fresh sweet corn, kernels cut off
- 55g butter
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 120ml cream
- 1 tbsp flour
- Salt, black pepper, and chives
Equipment
Skillet
The skills inside
The words inside
Allergen screen
Found: gluten · dairy
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Method
- Cut the kernels from the cobs and scrape the cobs for their milk.
- Melt the butter in a skillet and add the corn, kernels and scrapings.
- Cook over medium-high heat 5 min, stirring, until it takes a little color. 5 min
- Sprinkle the flour over, then add the cream and sugar and simmer 3 min until it thickens. 3 min
- Season with salt and pepper and finish with chives.
How to tell it is going right
This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.
Sautéing & the shallow fry 80 recipes
- Everything sits in a single layer with visible space between the pieces: nothing stacked, nothing touching, or the pan is too small for the quantity.
- The pieces move freely and keep moving, sliding across the pan rather than sticking and tearing when the pan is worked.
- Light even browning arrived at quickly: colour on most faces, not the deep crust of a sear and not grey.
- A thin film of fat with the food glossed by it: no pool left in the pan at the end, and nothing greasy on the fingers or the plate.
- Cooked through but still firm, having spent only a few minutes in the pan: anything that has gone soft has been in there too long.
Where it goes wrong Too much went in at once, the pan cooled, and the food released its water: what was meant to brown in three minutes stews for ten and comes out grey, slack and wet.
At the Table
- The Pour
- Sauvignon Blanc (Sancerre)
- Also Right
- Grüner Veltliner
- From the Taps
- Berliner weisse
- Zero-Proof
- Cucumber-lime water
Green plates want green wines: vinaigrette’s acid meets its match, and the difficult vegetables surrender to Grüner.
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