Smoked Corn Cakes With Diablo Sauce Food

SMOKED CORN ON THE COB

Steps:

• Place corn back in their husks in a large pot of water and soak for 2 hours. Soak wood chips in another container of water for about 30 minutes.
• Preheat a smoker to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). Place corn, unstacked, onto wire racks. Place the racks into the smoker. Add wood chips according to manufacturer's directions. Smoke until corn reaches your desired level of tenderness, 60 to 75 minutes.
• Combine butter, cilantro, lime juice, lime zest, and paprika in a small bowl. Peel back the husks and brush corn with the butter mixture. Season with salt and pepper.

SHRIMP FRA DIABLO

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir shallot and garlic in hot oil until tender, about 5 minutes. Add red pepper flakes; cook and stir to release flavor, about 1 minute. Stir fire-roasted tomatoes and tomato paste into the shallot mixture. Thin the sauce by stirring white wine into the mixture; cook and stir until sauce becomes thick and bubbly, 4 to 5 minutes.
• Reduce heat to medium-low. Add shrimp to the tomato mixture; cook and stir until shrimp are pink and cooked through, about 5 minutes. Season with parsley, basil, and black pepper.

SMOKED CORN CAKES WITH DIABLO SAUCE

Steps:

• To make sauce, heat oil in a heavy bottomed skillet until lightly smoking. Saute shallots and garlic until light brown. Add chilies, cumin, ginger, and red peppers. Stir about 30 seconds. Add mango and chicken stock. Simmer about 20 minutes. Puree and season with salt and lime juice. Sauce may be used hot or cold.
• For pancakes, shuck corn, remove silk, and cut kernels from cob. Place in smoker for 8 minutes. In a medium bowl, combine smoked corn, garlic, serrano chili, and bell peppers. In another bowl, mix cornmeal, flour, baking powder, and salt. Combine egg, milk, and bacon grease. Add vegetables to dry ingredients, then stir in egg mixture. Adjust seasoning with lemon juice. Fold to mix and let rest for 20 minutes. Adjust seasonings, if necessary.
• Place a large skillet over medium heat. Add just enough oil to coat bottom of skillet. When skillet is hot, pour corn batter, about 1/8 cup per corn cake. Cook on 1 side for about 1 1/2 minutes or until brown. Turn and cook until middles of cakes no longer appear wet. Remove cakes to warm platter and repeat to make 8 cakes. Place 2 cakes, edges overlapping on the center of each 4 warm plates. Spoon 2 tablespoons of Diablo Sauce around cakes and serve immediately.

CHEESY CORN CAKES WITH SPICY AVOCADO SALSA

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the corn kernels, creamed corn, eggs, cheddar, smoked paprika and salt and mix well.
• Sift in the flour and baking powder and mix well.
• Slowly stir in the milk until the batter is not too thick and drops off a spoon easily. (it should also not be so thin that it spreads too much when you fry the cakes)
• Heat a large frying pan and add some oil.
• Fry spoonfuls of the batter until bubbles appear at the top and flip. Allow to cook on the other side. Remove from the pan once cooked and place on some kitchen paper to drain.
• In the meantime, combine all the ingredients for the salsa and mix well.
• When all the cakes have been cooked, serve them with the salsa, extra lemon wedges and fresh coriander.

LUCKY DEVILS DIABLO SAUCE

Steps:

• Roast the habanero and jalapeno peppers over an open flame until they are charred on the outside. Remove from the heat and cool slightly. Remove the stems and the seeds. Remove the stems and seeds from the pasilla pepper as well. Set aside.
• Place the tomatoes with their sauce into a large pot. Crush the tomatoes up more with your hands to break them up. Add the roasted habanero and jalapeno peppers, the pasilla chili paste, soy sauce, brown sugar, cayenne, ancho and California chili powders and paprika into the pot and bring to a low boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Remove from the heat and cool it down. You can place it into the refrigerator. Once the sauce it cooled completely, add the cilantro and lime juice.
• Puree in a food processor or blender until it is smooth. You can adjust the levels of peppers and chili powders to make the sauce hotter or milder to your liking. We love it hot!

CORN-CRAB CAKES WITH CHIPOTLE SAUCE

Steps:

• 1. In small bowl stir together mayonnaise and 1/2 teaspoon of the pepper sauce. Cover and refrigerate until serving time.2. In medium bowl stir together egg, 1/4 cup of the KELLOGG'S CORN FLAKE CRUMBS, corn, onions, mustard, coriander and remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper sauce. Add crabmeat. Mix well. Shape into four 1/2-inch thick patties.3. Place remaining Crumbs in shallow dish. Lightly press patties into Crumbs, coating both sides.4. In large nonstick skillet cook patties in hot butter about 4 minutes or until golden brown, turning once. Serve with mayonnaise mixture.