Mexican Street Corn Dip | Food Wishes

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Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with Mexican street corn dip. That's right, we're turning something called a lo into a very party friendly dip. And other than on the cob with butter and salt, I think this is the best way to enjoy sweet summer corn. And to get started, let me show you what I think is the easiest way to get the kernels off the cob.

And that would be to place a ramkin or a coffee cup upside down in a bowl. And then we'll stand the corn up

and hold the tip and we will carefully slice straight down. And with that ramkin at the bottom, our knife's able to go all the way to the bottom of the cob without hitting the bowl. And it makes for a really safe, fast way to do this job. Oh, and once we're done, I like to take the back of the knife and kind of scrape down, which is going to squeeze out a little bit of that really sweet, nice, starchy corn juice, which I would like to have going into my dip.

And you should, too. But anyway, no matter what method you use, we're going to need the corn from four ears. And once that's set, we'll head to the stove where we have a generous amount of olive oil set over mediumigh heat. And what we'll do is transfer in our corn. And we'll kind of pat that down and smooth it out into a nice even layer.

at which point we'll just leave it alone for a few minutes or until it starts to lightly brown. And you know that started to happen when the corn starts to pop.