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How long to cook corn?
It takes about 15 minutes to cook corn.

There are at least two tips for cooking green corn:

1. Be sure to bring the inner green corn husk with you. The role of green corn skin to corn, is equal to the relationship between fish and shark fins, is to borrow each other's flavor, must be retained, but the whiskers must be removed and the cleaner the better, stripped of the skin of the corn will evolve into a chicken ribs.

2, must be cooked in a pressure cooker, no pressure cooker must not open the lid. Cooking pressure cooker cooking must only put water not more than half of the corn, there is a cover on the valve after switching to medium heat. 20 minutes after turning off the fire, simmering in the pot for half an hour and then open the lid.

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Cooking Corn Note:

1, Cook with Skin

Peeling the skin of the corn, you can leave the The innermost leaves to maintain the original moisture of the corn, eat more tender taste, but also to a greater extent to retain the nutrients of corn.

2, the water boiled and then boiled for 8-10 minutes

After the water boiled, sweet corn (bright yellow) boiled for 8 minutes, glutinous corn (white) boiled a little longer, about 10 minutes.

3. Fish out immediately after cooking

You need to pinch the corn out and drain it after cooking, if it is soaked in water for a long time, the flavor of the corn will turn pale and the texture will decline.

After boiling the water, sweet corn (bright yellow) and old corn need to continue to cook for 8 minutes, sticky corn (white) cook longer, at least 10 minutes.

When cooking sticky corn and old corn, you can add a pinch of salt to the water when it boils and then continue to cook. This will enhance the flavor of the corn and give it a hint of sweetness when you eat it. For more nutritious boiled corn, put a little baking soda (cooking soda) in the water when boiling. Because corn is rich in the nutrient niacin, but in general this component is more difficult to be broken down and absorbed by the body. After adding baking soda, the niacin in corn can be fully released, the nutritional value is higher.