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Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

Chi-town girl — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:34:54 GMT

I have a large slow cooker so I will triple this recipe and will omit the cilantro

Ingredients

4 medium ears sweet corn, cut into 2-inch pieces
1 can (15 ounces) coconut milk
1 medium onion, chopped
1/4 cup butter, cubed
6 fresh thyme sprigs
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 bay leaf
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup fresh cilantro leaves, chopped
2 green onions, sliced

Directions

In a 5- or 6-qt. slow cooker, combine first 9 ingredients. Cook, covered, on high 2-3 hours or until tender. Serve with cilantro and green onions.

Test Kitchen tips

The coconut milk mixture infuses the corn with flavor.
Two hours of cooking will produce crisp-tender corn. For softer corn, cook closer to three hours.

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

RedTop — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 19:19:15 GMT

This corn recipe might be the greatest tasting thing on earth.

However, as a farm girl, it blows my mind to think about taking a fresh ear of corn that I could pull, shuck and eat raw right there in the garden, and cook it in a slow cooker for hours? I'm just too country for this one.

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

godi — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 22:43:48 GMT

I have made corn on cob in crock pot for years. This sounds great.

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

skatting44 — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:17:50 GMT

@Chi-town girl

thanks, I'll try the recipe , however I 'd prefer Thai basil

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

wagirl — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 14:32:41 GMT

OMG!!!! I NEED to try this ASAP!!!

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

wagirl — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 14:05:17 GMT

@Chi-town girl ---I tried this recipe last night for dinner---only did 1/2 recipe to try it---was good as the corn was really good and smelled really great cooking---only next time I won't cut the corn into such small pieces, hard to eat that small. Maybe cut in half depending on the size of the cob--I cooked for the 2 hours which was prefect, and used white corn--- but the best part was the broth!! OMG----so yummy!! I have to figure out what to do with that----DD put it over her rice and said it was very tasty!!

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

Chi-town girl — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 22:18:02 GMT

@wagirl wrote:
@Chi-town girl ---I tried this recipe last night for dinner---only did 1/2 recipe to try it---was good as the corn was really good and smelled really great cooking---only next time I won't cut the corn into such small pieces, hard to eat that small. Maybe cut in half depending on the size of the cob--I cooked for the 2 hours which was prefect, and used white corn--- but the best part was the broth!! OMG----so yummy!! I have to figure out what to do with that----DD put it over her rice and said it was very tasty!!

@wagirl - thanks for testing and reporting on this recipe. Maybe some sautéed chicken with chopped onions & other veggies with the rice and the sauce?

I'm going to just split the ears in half and will cook on low as you did

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

Sooner — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 22:27:55 GMT

@RedTop wrote:
This corn recipe might be the greatest tasting thing on earth.

However, as a farm girl, it blows my mind to think about taking a fresh ear of corn that I could pull, shuck and eat raw right there in the garden, and cook it in a slow cooker for hours? I'm just too country for this one.

@RedTop I agree. And never in this lifetime would I want it to taste like cilantro or coconut milk. Corn, salt, maybe butter or not. It doesn't get better.

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

RedTop — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 22:40:03 GMT

@Sooner

I did think it might make those little frozen cobbettes taste better, but I'm always anti cilantro!

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

Sooner — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 22:50:52 GMT

@RedTop wrote:
@Sooner
I did think it might make those little frozen cobbettes taste better, but I'm always anti cilantro!

@RedTop I could eat a round bale of cilantro! Thought I had been poisoned the first time I tasted it and now I eat mine and anybody else's and ask for extra!

But I love corn so much I just want corn! I had a big yellow cat that ate it off the cob--held it down with one paw and growled while he was eating--and he could eat every scrap off the cob. I'd save him some--he was lucky to get it!

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

wagirl — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 15:05:13 GMT

@Chi-town girl --I was thinking about using chicken too and maybe shrimp would be good or a mild white fish--- that sauce is very open to alot of things from herby to spicy--can see a pinch of pepper flakes. In my world, anything with coconut milk is winner!!!

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

PA Mom-mom — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 19:32:56 GMT

@RedTop and @Sooner I just happened upon this thread and was horrified as well. My mom would get the water on to boil and only then would go out to pick the corn (or send one of us). The corn would boil for 4 minutes and come out to go immediately under cold running water to stop the cooking as much as possible. Served right away. The cats got the spent cobs.

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

RedTop — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 20:28:19 GMT

@PA Mom-mom

Thank you for understanding my point from the farm perspective.

After weeks of rounding thru the corn patch with eye droppers dropping mineral oil on the ears of corn to prevent/get rid of ear worms, we couldn't wait for the appearance of brown silks to let us know the corn was ready!

Steaming platters of it were on the supper table every night, and we never tired of it.

Regardless of who Grandma sent to the garden to pull corn for supper, they came in with the number of ears she asked for, plus the one they were eating on.

@PA Mom-mom

All the corn I've purchased this year has had thick, tight husks and heavy silk, which is an old timers sign of a bad winter!

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

Chi-town girl — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 20:58:47 GMT

Well @RedTop - point is there are many recipes and options. Why can wr share and discuss in a respectful manner?

Why you have chosen to repeatedly declare horror over a recipe that I've posted is rude.

Seems like you and a couple other posters are determined to derail this thread

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

Chi-town girl — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 21:00:21 GMT

@wagirl wrote:
@Chi-town girl --I was thinking about using chicken too and maybe shrimp would be good or a mild white fish--- that sauce is very open to alot of things from herby to spicy--can see a pinch of pepper flakes. In my world, anything with coconut milk is winner!!!

@wagirl - Thank you; great suggestion about mild flaky fish.

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

RedTop — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 21:42:57 GMT

@Chi-town girl

You have totally misunderstood my reply. There is no horror whatsoever about your posted recipe, and I meant no ill will. I am indeed sorry if this is how you perceive my posts.

To a farmer who plants a dry seed and successfully raises a great crop of corn, their feeling is that they have raised the most perfect food ever, and as I said, my family tested that perfection by pulling it and eating it raw right there in the cornfield.

I was raised to enjoy the vegetables we raised in their purest forms during peak season. We didn't mess with perfection with thoughts of how to use that vegetable in another way; that's just not how things were done on the farm. Granted, I do use canned or frozen vegetables in my recipes today, because I no longer have a 2 acre garden outside my back door, to supply me with fresh vegetables.

I'm always going to be proud of being a WV farm girl, and know many here will never connect to that, and it's quite okay if you don't connect to my ways. Just don't attach rudeness nor a mean spirit towards me for my different mindset.

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

PA Mom-mom — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 02:16:32 GMT

@Chi-town girl This is partly my fault. After I posted, I thought it might be considered insulting to the OP. I didn't consider the fact that some people don't have my experience with farm fresh corn. I should have been more considerate. So sorry!

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

wagirl — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:09:58 GMT

@Chi-town girl --I saved the sauce from the corn, and added a little more coconut milk to it and more spices and used it for a pasta sauce over spaghetti noodles last night for dinner---a flurry of parm and black pepper and it was amazing!!!

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

Luvsmyfam — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 12:50:28 GMT

@Chi-town girl I have got to try this can't imagine what it tastes like with c milk.

Re: Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

Lucky Dog — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:07:02 GMT

The horror over a recipe!