Sunday, August 5, 2012

Corn smut the truffle of the Aztec


Oh no, my corn is sick!!  Lucky for you its sick with Corn Smut, the gourmet delecacy of the Aztecs.  Check out wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_smut  Corn smut sells for more than corn  in Mexico and is found in stores, as in restaraunts, and even sold in cans it so loved and enjoyed.  Oh how can you get some of this to grow on your corn you say?  Whell....



Here's my target ear.  It sucks! That thing is goin no where fast!  Better do some improvements.

Put some smut from some other ear in there.


A week or so later you can reap your rewards!

Really how much corn was this ear going to make?  Look how much smut it made though.
So for a quick how to cook it recipe you can do this.  Put smut in a pan with some salt, pepper, and a hunk o butter. 

Cook it up.  I look for a brown butter crisp on mine.  It changes more black when you cook it.

Mmmm smut.  It tastes like corn meal mush but much softer.  After you try this basic recipe you can do more fancy stuff like make the quesodilla or tacos etc.  But it's good to understand the basic flavor.

Just in case you want an ingredients list
Smut
Salt
Pepper
Butter

Heat in pan till you see the browning of the butter on your smut and eat.

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