Cooking Dried Sweet Corn Food

CREAMED DRIED SWEET CORN WITH ONION AND CHIVES

Steps:

• Stir corn, milk, and cream in a large bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and chill at least 4 hours or up to overnight.
• Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add onion and a pinch of salt and cook, stirring often, until onion is translucent and just starting to turn golden, about 6 minutes. Add corn mixture, sugar, and 1 Tbsp. salt. Increase heat to medium-high and cook, stirring frequently, until mixture comes to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until creamed corn is thick, about 30 minutes.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper. Top with chives.

COOKING DRIED SWEET CORN

Steps:

• 1. Soak dried corn for 2 hours in water in a saucepan. Do NOT drain. Cover and cook slowly until the kernels are tender (50 to 60 minutes). Correct seasonings if desired. Add butter. Serve in sauce dishes, broth and all. If you like, add two tablespoons milk. Serves four to six.

SHRIMP WITH SWEET CORN SAUCE

Steps:

• Sprinkle the shrimp with garam masala (or spices of choice) and lemon juice and let marinate in the refrigerator for about an hour. (When I made this with chicken, I used a Cajun mix rather than the garam masala).
• Melt the butter in a pan and fry onion and garlic for about 5 minutes, till slightly softened.
• Add the shrimp and cook for a few minutes, stirring occasionally till cooked through and pink.
• Transfer the shrimp, onions and garlic to a bowl, leaving some of the buttery liquid in the pan.
• Add the tomato paste and cook over low heat, stirring.
• Add the thyme, cinnamon and cilantro and jalapeno to the pan and stir well. (Keep warm over low heat).
• Blend the corn (reserving about 1 T) in a blender or food processor with the coconut milk.
• Add to the pan and simmer till reduced.
• Add the shrimp and reserved corn and simmer for about 5 minutes.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.

BAKED CORN CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Using a blender or food processor, chop the dried corn until finely ground.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine the ground corn, milk, butter, salt, sugar and eggs. Mix well.
• Butter a shallow 2-quart baking dish. Pour in the corn mixture. Bake until set and golden brown on top, about 1 hour. Serve hot.

NAVAJO DRIED CORN SOUP

Steps:

• Wash dried corn thoroughly, soak overnight, drain when ready to use.
• Boil dried corn until tender - about 3 1/2 hours in 6 cups water.
• Brown meat, add onion and garlic, saut‚ together until tender, drain off excess fat.
• Add pork, chili pods, oregano, salt, pepper and 6 cups water to cooked corn.
• Simmer for 1 hour or until the meat and corn are tender.
• servings based on one cup not soup bowl.
• Note:.
• Dried corn may be cooked in a pressure cooker for 45 minutes at about 15 lb. pressure.
• Phil's notes: An Old Smoky Ham soup base may be used in place of the salt pork. Please when dealing with the chilie pods make sure you don't touch your eyes. Wash your hands first and if for some reason you are cutting them, you might need a second washing to get rid of the burn. Note with the Old Smoky Ham base I also used Copes Toasted Dried Corn.