Grilled corn

Name: Grilled corn
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Tchad
Ingredients: 4 fresh sweetcorn cobs, about 600 g edible kernels in total excluding cores; 2 litres drinking water for precooking

🌽 Sweetcorn cobs briefly boiled then browned under the oven grill, without butter.

Ingredients

4 fresh sweetcorn cobs, about 600 g edible kernels in total excluding cores
2 litres drinking water for precooking

Preparation

Remove husks and silk and rinse cobs. Choose fresh sweetcorn meant for eating on the cob, not dry milling maize. The 600 g estimate refers to edible kernels without cores.

Bring water to a light boil in a large pan. Immerse cobs and cook about 8–10 minutes until kernels are tender. Adjust to the product rather than trying to soften dry maize in this short time.

Drain and dry carefully. Preheat the oven grill and place cobs on a suitable tray without paper that could burn near the element.

Brown under grill about 8–12 minutes, turning with tongs every 2–3 minutes and watching continuously. Aim for some brown marks, not completely black cobs.

Cool about 5 minutes and serve one cob per person. Reference total 40 minutes: 15 preparation, 20 precooking/grilling, 5 cooling. Heating water and oven may add time.