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Is the corn still boiled in clear water? Teach you three tricks, and the cooked corn is sweet and crisp, which is more delicious than the bought one.

Summer is the season to eat corn, and the stalls in the market are full of boiled corn, roasted corn and fresh corn. Especially when cooking corn, every time I go to buy food, I can always smell the refreshing fragrance of corn, which makes people can't help but look at it more. My family likes to eat sweet and crisp corn. I always buy a big bag and cook it myself at home, but I don't know why I always feel that it is not as delicious as the stall outside. Until this morning, I met an aunt while picking corn. She told me that it is wrong to cook corn directly with clear water. Only by remembering these three secrets, whether it is sweet and crisp corn or waxy corn, it will be more sweet and crisp after cooking. The more you chew, the more delicious it will be, and it will be better than what you bought.

If you want to cook delicious corn, you must first learn to choose corn and try to choose tender corn.

The sweetness of corn is closely related to its tenderness. The more tender the corn, the higher the sweetness. On the contrary, the older corn is, the less sweet it is, and the harder it is to chew. For this reason, the boiled corn in the stall outside often adds some sugar in order to improve the taste. Moreover, we usually cook directly, and the cooked corn is naturally not as sweet as outside. Therefore, in order to ensure the sweetness and crispness of boiled corn, it is best to choose tender corn, gently press it with your hands, and choose corn with high softness and elasticity.

At the same time, when peeling corn, don't peel off all the skin of corn, and try to leave 1 layer inside, so as to preserve the freshness and sweetness of corn to the greatest extent. After these two steps, you can prepare to cook corn ~

Is the corn still boiled in clear water? Teach you three tricks, and the cooked corn is sweet and crisp, which is more delicious than the bought one. Next, let's take a look at what is the secret of aunt sharing-

Corn is full of treasures, and corn stigma is one of them. It is a blind "medicine" in traditional Chinese medicine, which has a faint sweetness and has the effects of clearing away heat, diuresis and relaxing bowels. So before cooking corn, wash it, put it at the bottom of the pot, and then add corn and water, so that the cooked corn will be more fragrant and sweet.

After the corn is put into the pot, don't add too much water at a time, it is better to just eat the corn, which is not only easy to cook, but also can better preserve the umami and sweetness of the corn. In addition, add 1 tbsp salt and stir until it melts. After adding salt to corn, it can lock in moisture, enrich the taste and improve the sweetness of corn, which is naturally more delicious than the corn outside.

Before cooking, you need to add half a spoonful of baking soda in addition to salt. Because baking soda can decompose nicotinic acid in corn, it can retain the nutrients in corn to a greater extent and better maintain the fresh, tender and crisp taste of corn. After these steps, remember to boil with high fire, then simmer for 15 minutes, and then turn off the fire for 10 minutes. The purpose of this is to make the corn keep its fresh, sweet, crisp and tender taste better under the premise of full cooking.

Don't say, I went home and cooked according to my aunt's secret recipe. The cooked corn was really sweet, which defeated my friends who liked to eat corn outside the stall. Please try it. It's really good ~