Friday, February 10, 2012

New Recipe to Test: Corn Salsa

Marty and I tested a new recipe Wednesday night for Cook’s Illustrated. The recipe will be in the magazine in July. We were to make a fresh corn salsa, no frozen or canned corn allowed.  It is February people. Corn is ripe in the late summer.  Marty found fresh corn at Costco, so I made the recipe.

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Fresh corn, not great at this time of year, but not bad.

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Chopped Cilantro

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Me cutting corn off the cob.

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Close up of my technique.

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The corn has been blanched and is draining.

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A lime ready to be squeezed.

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Honey is added to the lime and other goodness.

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Cayenne pepper!  Are you kidding me, no fresh peppers like jalapenos?

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Beginning to split an avocado.

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The avocado is diced and mixed into the corn and spice mixture.

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The salsa has set for 10 minutes and ready to be tasted.  It was OK, not great.  It was a little bland.  It needed some heat and salt.

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I got out some jalapenos and diced one of them.  We did a taste test, one was perfect.

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The new finished product.  It has a bite, but not powerful, and the corn taste great.  Our addition greatly improved their recipe. 

We would make this again, with our small changes.

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