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How To Blanch Corn

The delicious taste of fresh corn makes the end of summer and the beginning of fall a much sweeter transition.Blanching involves boiling vegetables in water for a short time.Blanching cleans the surface of dirt and helps slow the loss of vitamins.If you follow these simple steps, you will be able to tenderize corn, prepare it for other cooking methods, or freeze it.

Step 1: Corn should be blanched.

Remove husk from corn.Remove the outer green and leafy covering from the corn.husk can be composted or discarded.Remove the silk from the corn.The strands can be pulled off by hand or with a vegetable brush, but you can easily clean them off after cooking.Remove any stalks from the ear of corn.The rest of the ear can be snapped off if more than an inch is left at the bottom.Personal preference dictates how much stalker you want to leave on, from a few inches to nothing at all.To remove dirt particles from corn, rinse it.

Step 2: Corn can be submerged in a pot of water.

Pick a pot that is large enough to completely cover the corn you are going to blanche.Put the corn in the pot.A gallon of water is used for every two to three ears of corn.Allow for a few extra inches of water to remain above the corn and from the water line to the lip of the pot.

Step 3: Bring the water and corn to the boil.

Allow the water to come to a boil.

Step 4: Corn can be boiled for seven to 11 minutes.

If you have small ears, boil them for seven minutes.If your corn is medium-sized, you should boil it for nine minutes.If you have large ears of corn, you should boil them for 11 minutes.

Step 5: Corn can be removed from boiling water and placed in an ice water bath.

To make an ice water bath, fill a large bowl or sink with cold water and ice.Kitchen tongs are used to remove corn from boiling water.Corn is submerged in ice water.If water temperature rises above 60 F, you should change water frequently.

Step 6: Corn must be drained from the ice water bath.

Step 7: Corn can be frozen or used.

If your corn is fresh and tender, you can either roast it in the oven or cook it using another method.Place blanched ears in bags or containers to freeze them.

Step 8: Prepare corn for cooking.

Remove the husk from the corn.Remove the outer green and leafy covering from the corn.The husk can be composted or discarded.The silk should be removed from the corn.The strands can be pulled off by hand or with a vegetable brush, but you can easily clean them off after cooking.Remove any stalks from the ear of corn.The rest of the ear can be snapped off if more than an inch is left at the bottom.The amount of stalking you want to leave on depends on your personal preference.To remove dirt from corn, rinse it.

Step 9: The pot should be prepared for steaming.

Pick a pot large enough to blanche two to four ears of corn at a time in a single layer.A mesh strainer should be placed at the bottom of the pot.Add about two to three inches of water to the pot.The steamer basket or strainer needs to be at least two and a 1/2 cm below the surface of the water.

Step 10: In the steamer basket, place ears of corn.

Step 11: The water should be brought to a boil.

Step 12: For four minutes, steam corn.

Step 13: Corn is put into an ice water bath.

To make an ice water bath, fill a large bowl with cold water and ice.Use tongs or lift the steamer basket from the pot to remove corn.Corn can be submerged in ice water.If the water temperature rises above 60 F, it's time to change it.

Step 14: Corn can be frozen or used.

Step 15: The water should be boiled in the pot.

For each cup of kernels, use one quart of water.

Step 16: Carefully pour the whole kernels into the water.

Step 17: The corn should be boiled for approximately four minutes.

Step 18: Put the pot over the strainer in the sink and drain the water from the corn kernels.

Step 19: To stop the cooking process, plunge corn into ice water bath.

Step 20: Whole kernels of corn can be frozen.

Step 21: The pot needs to be prepared for steaming.

Pick a pot large enough to blanche one to two cups of corn at a time.At the bottom of the pot, place a metal steamer basket or fine mesh strainer.Add about two to three inches of water to the pot.The steamer basket or strainer needs to be at least two and a 1/2 cm below the surface of the water.