Mexican Street Corn
From TxGriffLover 14 years ago
- 40 min to make
- Serves 6
In Mexico, street vendors sell corn on the cob from carts like vendors in the U.S. sell hot dogs. The corn is served coated with either melted butter, chili powder and lime juice, or a creamy cheesy mixture consisting of a crema (a tangy cultured sour cream) or maynnaise mixed with chili powder and garlic. Read more The mixture is slathered over the corn and then sprinkled with a crumbly Mexican cheese such as queso anejo or queso fresco. This recipe came from "The Best of America's Test Kitchen 2009" If possible, leave the stalks on the corn attached; they make nice handles when cooking and eating. Edited on 4-14-09...The last time we prepared this recipe, we used our stove top smoker and smoked the corn for about 25 minutes, then finished them off in the broiler with the mayo/cheese mixture. If you have a stove top smoker, this is definitely the way to go, the corn was amazing! See less
Ingredients
- 6 large ears of corn, husks and silks removed shopping list
- 1 tablespoon olive oil shopping list
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise shopping list
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro shopping list
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice shopping list
- 1 garlic clove, minced shopping list
- 1 teaspoon chili powder shopping list
- salt shopping list
- 1 ounce queso fresco (about 1/4 cup) or 1 ounce farmer's cheese (about 1/4 cup) or 1 ounce feta, crumbled (about 1/4 cup) shopping list
- pepper shopping list
- 1 lime, cut into wedges for serving shopping list
How to make it
- Adjust oven rack to 5 inches from the broiler element and heat the broiler. Brush the corn on all sides with the olive oil and transfer to a foil lined baking sheet.
- Broil the corn until well-browned on one side, about 10 minutes. Turn the corn over and broil until browned on the opposite side, about 10 minutes longer.
- While the corn broils, stir the mayo, cilantro, lime juice, garlic, chili powder, and 1/4 tsp salt together until uniform. Stir in the cheese and set aside.
- Remove the corn from the oven and brush the corn on all sides with the mayo mixture.
- Return to the broiler and broil the coated corn until the cheese coating is warm and slightly brown on top, about 1 minute.
- Season with salt & pepper to taste. Serve with the lime wedges.
- and any remaining mayo mixture.
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