Slow-Cooked Corn on the Cob

Chi-town girl · ‎03-27-2014

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.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality ~ Dante Alighieri

RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

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.

godi · ‎03-09-2010

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

skatting44 · ‎07-26-2019

@Chi-town girl

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

wagirl · ‎03-09-2010

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

wagirl · ‎03-09-2010

@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!!

Chi-town girl · ‎03-27-2014

@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

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality ~ Dante Alighieri

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@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.

RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

@Sooner

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

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@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!